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BOARD OF SUPER. OF FAIRFAX CTY. v. SNELL CONST. CORP.

202 S.E.2d 889 (1974)

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY v. SNELL CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION and Preston Construction Corporation.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 4, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Rick, Asst. County Atty. for Fairfax County (Frederic Lee Ruck, County Atty. for Fairfax County, on brief), for appellant.

David E. Feldman, Fairfax (Dexter S. Odin; Odin & Feldman, Fairfax, on brief), for appellees.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.

POFF, Justice.

This appeal presents our first opportunity to consider the standard to be applied in judicial review of the validity of a zoning ordinance, enacted on motion of the zoning authority, which effects a piecemeal reduction of permissible residential density (downzoning).

Under the 1964 Annandale Comprehensive Master Plan, a 26 acre tract of land lying south of State Route 236 between Backlick Road on...

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