Bleloch v. Board of Adjustment of Margate City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

The question in this-case is: was the action of the Board of Adjustment in refusing to recommend a certificate of occupancy in variance of a zoning ordinance of the City, of Margate City capricious and arbitrary? We think it was.

The prosecutor is the owner of an apartment house building, the construction of which was started in the fall of 1930 after a properly issued permit. The cost of the building was in excess of $28,000, and it has now .a replacement cost far in excess of that. About the time that the building permit was issued a zoning…