Weldon v. Zoning Bd. of City of Des Moines

McCORMICK, Justice.

• This appeal involves a zoning controversy. The trial court held in a certiorari action initiated by plaintiff Mrs. Glenn Weldon that defendant Zoning Board of the City of Des Moines did not act illegally in granting intervenor Dickinsons’, Inc. the right to operate a retail store next door to her home in a neighborhood zoned for single family residential (R-l) uses. We reverse the trial court.

The controversy was precipitated by a complaint made to the City by Mrs. Weldon in the fall of 1972. Intervenors Peter P. Dickinson, Russell B. Dickinson, and Warren W. Dickinson…