Chandler v. City of Vestavia Hills Planning & Zoning Commission

CRAWLEY, Presiding Judge.

Jason Chandler and Sarah Chandler appeal from the trial court’s denial of a peti*1126tion for a writ of mandamus instructing the City of Vestavia Hills Planning and Zoning Commission (“the Commission”) to grant the Chandlers permission to subdivide their residential lot into two parcels. One of the proposed parcels would be a “flag lot,” which, although not defined by the parties, is evidently a rectangular parcel of land that is accessible only by a long narrow strip of property leading from a main road.1

The Commission denied the Chandlers’ subdivision proposal on August…