Legal Opinion

Shelley v. Town of Tyrone

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 16, 2017No. S17A1064PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NAHMIAS, Justice.

This case arises from a long-running battle that appellant Richard Shelley has been waging against the Town of Tyrone’s zoning ordinances. Because Shelley failed to exhaust his administrative remedies before seeking relief in the trial court, his as-applied challenges to the zoning ordinances are not ripe for judicial review. We therefore affirm the superior court’s order granting Tyrone partial summary judgment on those claims. And because the town has enacted a new zoning ordinance, Shelley’s facial challenges to the *298previous ordinances are moot. We therefore vacate the…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Cowart v. WidenerSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
  2. Fowler v. VineyardSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
  3. Zant v. MoonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
  4. Collins v. Lombard Corp.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1998
  5. State of Georgia v. International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2016

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