Erlinger v. City Council of Belleville

Mir. JUSTICE KARNS

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County invalidating an ordinance of the City Council of Belleville which changed the zoning classification of the property of plaintiffs-appellees from single family residential to multifamily residential. The court further directed the City to reclassify the property as heavy commercial. The suit filed in the circuit court purportedly was pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110, par. 264 et seq.

On appeal,…