Stephan & Sons, Inc. v. Municipality of Anchorage Zoning Board of Examiners & Appeals

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a superior court decision which upheld a ruling of the Municipality of Anchorage Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals (the Board). The Board had limited operation of a gravel pit by Stephan & Sons, Inc. (Stephan), appellant, to two separately traeted subparcels totaling thirteen acres of a fifty-three acre parcel. Stephan appeals to this court on the sole issue of whether its authorized “nonconforming use” may be expanded over the entire parcel. We affirm.

I

In 1969, George and Dixie Winningham were the owners of approximately fifty-three acres…