Turner v. City of Independence

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

After Independence’s city council enacted ordinances to rezone two large tracts in the city’s Little Blue Valley area from agricultural use to residential planned unit development, area property owners filed this declaratory judgment action. They asked the circuit court to declare that the city council had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in enacting the rezoning ordinances. The circuit court declared that the city council had acted lawfully, and the property owners appeal. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment.

This dispute arose when, during 2003,…