Strandberg v. Kansas City

STORCKMAN, Chief Justice.

This action seeks to declare invalid a Kansas City ordinance rezoning a six and one-half-acre tract of land from single-family and duplex-dwelling purposes to multistory apartment and hotel uses. The seven plaintiffs own homes outside, but nearby, the rezoned area. The defendants in addition to the city of Kansas City are the owner of the rezoned area and the prospective purchaser and developer of the area. The trial before the court without a jury resulted in a judgment declaring the ordinance void and permanently enjoining the defendants from enforcing the ordinance…