City of Smyrna v. Ruff

Nichols, Chief Justice.

Ruff applied to the mayor and city council of the City of Smyrna to have 22.059 undeveloped acres of land to *251which he held title rezoned from a single-family residential classification to office and institutional and neighborhood shopping classifications. The city council, after a public hearing attended by some 200 persons, rejected the application on a 5 to 2 vote. Ruff appealed to the superior court and after a lengthy hearing, the trial court held that the residential zoning classification of the subject property was unconstitutional, void and confiscatory and…