City of Phoenix v. Collins

OPINION

OGG, Judge.

We must determine in this appeal whether the City Council for the City of Phoenix was legally correct in refusing to approve Frank F. Collins’ application for a rezoning of his property. Collins is the owner of a tract of land located at the corner of 19th Avenue and Greenway in the City of Phoenix. Collins went before the Phoenix City Council with a request that this property be rezoned from its present Residential RE-35 zoning to a Commercial, C-l zoning classification. The City Council denied his application and thereafter Collins filed suit in the Superior Court of…