Candler & Associates, Inc. v. City of Roswell

Marshall, Chief Justice.

This is a zoning case. The issue is whether the trial court erred in upholding the governing authority’s failure to rezone the appellants’ property. For reasons which follow, we reverse.

The 11.14-acre tract, composed of 17 parcels, is situated in the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Holcomb Bridge and Warsaw Roads in the City of Roswell. In 1983, 13 of the parcels, situated in the interior of the tract, were rezoned from single-family residential to office-professional (O-P), the constitutionality of which was upheld. These and adjacent landowners later hired…