Board of Zoning Adjustment v. Cheek

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case involves property located within Little Rock’s three-mile zoning jurisdiction, and while the property was zoned for residential purposes, the City had allowed it to be used for an auto repair business as a nonconforming use as of 1991. After Cheek purchased the property in 1993, he opened his auto-repair business, and the Little Rock zoning staff concluded that the nonconforming use of the property had been abandoned. Cheek appealed the staff s decision to the Little Rock Board of Zoning Adjustment, but at a hearing held on December 27, 1993, the Board upheld the…