Martin v. City of Rockford

This is an appeal by the defendant, City of Rockford, from a declaratory judgment holding the city’s zoning ordinance unconstitutional and void as applied to plaintiffs’ land.

The property in question is an irregular tract containing about of an acre with a frontage of 178.88 feet on the north side of the 3300 block of East State Street, a four-lane highway also designated as U.S. Route 20, in the city of Rockford. Immediately to the east, extending northeast to Fairview Blvd., is a recreational strip and drainage way owned by the city, which occupies about one-half of the frontage on State…