Wakeland v. City of Urbana Modified on Denial of Rehearing

delivered, the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Howard and Craig Wakeland, acquired three lots in the 800 block of West Main Street in Urbana, Illinois, intending to tear down the houses on the lots and replace them with an apartment building. Before the Wakelands carried out that plan, the city “down-zoned” the lots, restricting them to single-family residential use. The Wakelands filed a complaint for declaratory judgment against the city, asking the trial court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional as applied to them. Daniel Folk and W Randall Kangas owned homes near the lots and…