DeKalb County v. Blalock Machinery & Equipment Co.

Appellee Blalock sued DeKalb County in DeKalb Superior Court, alleging that the county’s comprehensive land use plan, pursuant to which the appellee’s 182-acre tract of undeveloped DeKalb County real estate was zoned R-150 (one-acre residential lots), is unconstitutional in that it amounts to a taking of the appellee’s property without compensation or due process, and that, consequently, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners’ denial of its written request to rezone said real estate to R-100 (15,000-square-foot residential lots) was similarly unconstitutional.

The trial judge decreed the…