Ashland Lumber Company v. Williams

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Appellants, Ashland Lumber Company and Pennco, Inc., manufactured aluminum windows and doors in a factory building in Ashland, Kentucky. The district in which the building was located was zoned residential, and the appellants’ use was a nonconforming one, permitted to continue because it predated the zoning. In 1964 the appellants obtained from the building inspector a building permit to erect another building on the premises. Protests by owners of residences in the district, not initiated until the new building was substantially completed, resulted in a revocation of the…