Krimendahl v. Common Council

The appellants, by their suit below, sought to have an amendatory re-zoning ordinance declared invalid on two grounds: First, that the procedures followed by the local plan commission and the city council in considering and enacting the amending ordinance were not in conformity with the Planning and Zoning Act of 1947, I.C. 1971, 18-7-5-1 through 18-7-5-99, being Burns §§ 53-701 through 53-795, and, second, that the amendatory ordinance and the Planning and Zoning Act are unconstitutional and void, as in violation of Art. 1, § 12, of the Indiana Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to…