Rakestraw v. Town of Knightdale

TYSON, Judge.

Rita Rakestraw, et al., (“plaintiffs”) appeal from order entered by the superior court granting the Town of Knightdale’s (“the Town”) motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

I. Background

On 30 August 2006, plaintiffs filed a complaint and sought a declaratory judgment that an ordinance adopted by the Knightdale Town Council (“the Council”) was void and of no effect. The challenged ordinance and amendment rezoned an approximately 56.8 acre tract of land to a “highway commercial conditional district.” Prior to the adoption of the ordinance, the northern portion of the property was…