Smookler v. Wheatfield Township

Plaintiffs’ land is zoned agricultural and residential. They sought to have it rezoned for a mobile home park. Denial of the application for rezoning precipitated the present action for judicial relief on the basis that as applied to their land, the present zoning was an unlawful exercise of police power. The township zoning permits mobile home parks but no land has been allocated for such development. All previous requests for rezoning to permit mobile home parks have been denied.

The validity of the zoning which precludes plaintiffs from using their land for mobile home park use is dependent…