Board of Zoning Adjustment v. LaGrange Church

This is a zoning case.

Following the denial of its request for a variance by the Board of Zoning Adjustment of the City of Muscle Shoals (Board), the LaGrange Church of the Nazarene, Inc. (Church) appealed to the Circuit Court of Colbert County. The case was tried de novo before a jury, which returned a verdict for the Church.

The Board appeals. We affirm.

A variance from the terms of a zoning ordinance may be granted "where, due to special conditions, a literal enforcement of the ordinance would result in unnecessary hardship, provided that the variance will not be contrary to public interest…