Olson v. Christian County

This is a zoning dispute.

Plaintiffs, Curtis E. Olson and Melveta L. Olson, filed a petition against Defendant, Christian County, Missouri, praying the trial court to declare that Defendant’s “Unified Development Codes,” which took effect February 1, 1993, did not apply to an “existing residential development” owned by Plaintiffs.

The gist of the dispute, as revealed by the record, is that prior to the effective date of the Codes, Plaintiffs owned a parcel of land on which they resided in a mobile home. After the effective date of the Codes, Plaintiffs placed a second mobile home on the parcel,…