Board of Supervisors v. Jackson

In this zoning controversy, the local governing body refused a property owner’s request to rezone a portion of his land for the purpose of resubdivision. We review the trial court’s action reversing that legislative decision.

In November of 1976, appellee Virgil Jackson filed an application requesting appellant Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County to adopt an amendment to the zoning ordinance rezoning one-half acre of his 1.5-acre parcel from classification RE-1 (one-family residential, minimum lot size one acre) to RE-0.5 (one-family residential, minimum lot size one-half acre). The subject…