Hukle v. City of Kansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harmon, C.:

This is a zoning controversy. Challenged here is the propriety of a district court order finding that the refusal of the city of Kansas City, Kansas, to rezone a tract of land was unreasonable and arbitrary and directing the rezoning applied for.

The appeal is by a group of people, known as the Argentine Action Group, who own land adjoining or close to the tract sought to be rezoned and who oppose the requested rezoning. The group twice sought, unsuccessfully, a district court order permitting them to intervene in the proceedings. A threshold…