Hughes v. City of Peoria

The complaint in this case was for a declaratory judgment attacking the validity of a Peoria ordinance changing the zoning classification of some 30 acres of land from residential to commercial to permit a new shopping center.

The plaintiff in his complaint claims to represent a group of persons, firms and corporations who own property and operate their businesses in the central business district of Peoria. In their complaint they represent that the zoning reclassification will have a “destructive effect . . . upon said properties and businesses”; that their businesses and properties “will be…