Calabria v. City of Fayetteville

John I. Purtle, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Washington County Chancery Court declaring an ordinance of the city of Fayetteville to be valid. The decree specifically held that Fayetteville’s City Ordinance No. 1661, as amended, does not take or damage appellants’ property without just compensation and therefore is not in violation of Article 2 § 22 of the Arkansas Constitution. On appeal the appellants insist that Ark. Stat. Ann. § 76-2205 (Repl. 1981) and our decision in Arkansas State Highway Comm. v. Arkansas Power & Light Co., 231 Ark. 307, 330 S.W.2d 77 (1959), mandate…