Central Motors Corp. v. City of Pepper Pike

In this case we are asked to determine whether Pepper Pike’s zoning of CMC’s property is unconstitutional and whether Pepper Pike had used its one opportunity to rezone to cure the constitutional defect, thereby allowing the judicial rezoning of the property. We hold that the zoning ordinance is constitutional and, thus, do not reach the issue of whether judicial rezoning was proper.

Neither party contests the legal principles governing this case. Rather, the dispute concerns the application of those principles to the specific facts of this case. In analyzing the constitutionality of zoning…