Tau Alpha Holding Corp. v. Board of Adjustments

On September 19, 1932, the City of Gaines-ville adopted a zoning ordinance in which it designated that certain block in said city bounded on the north by Mechanic Street, on the East by Ninth Street, on the south by University Avenue, and on the west by Roux Street, as “Residence B” district, except an area Seventy by One Hundred feet in the northeast corner thereof. For years prior to the adoption of said ordinance, there had been a small business center in the southeast corner of said block consisting of a grocery store, a brick restaurant, and a large brick-filling store. The land involved…