Ohoopee Land Development Corporation v. Mayor & Council of Wrightsville

Jordan, Chief Justice.

This is a rezoning case. Ohoopee Land Development Corporation, the developer, acquired on May 26, 1972, a 17.5 acre tract of residentially-zoned land lying in Wrightsville, Georgia, for the purpose of developing a shopping center. Commercial rezoning soon thereafter was requested and granted. From the date of acquisition until April of 1980, the developer sold several small parcels out of the 17.5 acre tract, on at least one of which a small business was established. The 17.5 acre tract was divided into and sold in these separate parcels after the developer discovered…