Boice v. Village of Ottawa Hills

{¶ 1} Plaintiffs-appellants, the Boices, owned a piece of real estate adjacent to their suburban residence for over 30 years. In 2004, defendant-appellee village of Ottawa Hills denied their request for a variance seeking to have the vacant 33,000-square-foot residential lot declared a “buildable” lot. The zoning code at that time included a requirement that no structure could be built on a lot smaller than 35,000 square feet, which was 2,000 square feet larger than the lot owned by plaintiffs. This new size restriction was enacted in 1978, four years after plaintiffs purchased the lot. When…