Legal Opinion
Houston v. Board of City Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided December 13, 1975No. 47,799PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Foth, C.:
This is an action brought under K. S. A. 12-712 to test the reasonableness of a 1973 Wichita zoning ordinance which changed the zoning of plaintiffs’ property from “LC” light commercial to “B” multiple family. The district court upheld the ordinance and plaintiff property owners have appealed.
The zoning ordinance affected all four corners of the intersection of Eleventh and Waco Streets in a residential district several blocks north of downtown Wichita. The four corners were zoned light commercial in 1946, but no light commercial use was ever…
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