Rodriguez v. Marion County

In 1981, respondents’ predecessors filed an application with Marion County which the county granted. Although the application was nominally only for a lot line adjustment to partition a parcel in an agricultural area, both the application and the county’s written decision granting it speak in detail about a nonfarm dwelling that the applicants intended to build on the smaller of the two resulting properties.

In 1992, respondents began construction activities. The county ordered them to stop construction. Respondents asserted that the 1981 decision allowed them to build the nonfarm dwelling.…