Town of Nags Head v. Tillett

MARTIN, Justice.

In January of 1982, Susan and James T. Ryce applied to the Town of Nags Head for a building permit for a lot they had purchased from Bradford Neil Loy in 1980. The lot was one of four parcels created three years earlier by the subdivision of a 6.8-acre tract of land belonging to Robert C. and Zenova P. Tillett. The Ryces were denied a building permit on the grounds that their lot violated several provisions of the Nags Head Code of Ordinances, all of which appear in chapter 17, entitled “Subdivision of Land.” Specifically, the subdivision had never been approved by the town…