Brock v. Dickinson County Board of Adjustment

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We have here to decide whether the Board of Adjustment of the Dickinson County Zoning Commission had jurisdiction to refuse to grant a building permit to plaintiff Richard Brock.

At a prior date the Supervisors of Dickinson County, Iowa, adopted Dickinson County Zoning Ordinance Number 10. See ch. 358A, The Code 1979. On July 2, 1975, the zoning administrator for Dickinson County approved a permit allowing Brock to build a “new house” in an area known as Crandall’s Beach in that county. About July 23,1975, a home in two parts was moved onto the lot. Other inhabitants of…