Executive 100, Inc. v. Martin County

I. INTRODUCTION

“Zoning provides one of the firmest and most basic of the rights of local control.” 1 And, as this court has recognized, it is “not the function of federal district courts to serve as zoning appeals boards.2

The gravamen of the court’s error in permitting appellants’ suit against the county to go forward is its willingness to engage in premature review of the actions of the local zoning authority based on almost nonexistent factual allegations of a constitutional dimension. It cannot be the ease that the role of the federal courts is to review decisions of local zoning…