Jackson v. Spalding County

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

The Spalding County Board of Appeals denied two requests for a variance from the county zoning ordinance’s requirement concerning roof pitches on manufactured homes. The property owners appealed by filing a petition for a writ of certiorari in superior court, as provided in the ordinance, but challenged that method of appeal as unconstitutional. We granted the property owners’ application to consider whether the petition for a writ of certiorari is a proper method for appealing a zoning board’s denial of a variance. We affirm, holding that a zoning ordinance may…