Duchac v. City of Hot Springs

Sam Bird, Judge.

Appellant Rene Duchac appeals a decision of the Garland County Chancery Court granting the City of Hot Springs a permanent injunction against his use of the property at 605 Quapaw Street as a multi-family dwelling. Appellant contends that the court should not have granted the injunction because the property was a preexisting, nonconforming use when the zoning ordinance went into effect in 1963. Appellant also argues that the City should be barred from enforcing the zoning ordinance by estoppel and laches. The trial court held that the subject property was not a preexisting,…