Riddell v. City of Brinkley

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This is a zoning case from the City of Brinkley, Arkansas. The chancellor found valid a city ordinance that rezoned a tract of land on Brinkley’s southwest city limits.

On appeal the appellants argue that the chancellor was wrong because the ordinance was arbitrary, capricious, and amounted to spot zoning. We disagree and affirm the decree.

The tract in question is on the city limits of Brinkley, Arkansas, and is part of a larger tract which was zoned R-l, for residential purposes only, in 1967. At that time the City of Brinkley adopted a comprehensive plan and,…