Conlon v. BD. OF PUBLIC WORKS, CITY OF PATERSON

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J. Brennan, Jr., J.

We certified of our own motion the appeal of the defendants to the Appellate Division from a judgment entered in the Law Division setting aside an ordinance amending the zoning ordinance of the City of Paterson. The ordinance removes a single lot approximately 120x141 feet at the southeast corner of Broadway and East 33rd Street from the Residence A Zone, "perhaps the finest residential section of the municipality,” and constitutes it a Business 3 zone.

Appellants defend the ordinance upon the ground that the restriction of…