Dato v. Village of Vernon Hills

This appeal is taken from an order of the Circuit Court of Lake County denying the petition of a school district to intervene in a zoning case.

On July 7,1964, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Vernon Hills, pursuant to a recommendation of their Zoning Board of Appeals, rezoned certain property in the Village from a “Rr-5” classification to “R-4.” The pertinent distinction between the classifications is that “R-4” zoning permits only single family residential uses while “R-5” permitted, among other uses, mobile-home parks.

Plaintiffs-appellees filed a complaint under the Declaratory…