PINELLAS COUNTY v. BROWN

No. 81-1463.

420 So.2d 308 (1982)

PINELLAS COUNTY, Florida, Appellant, v. Peter BROWN and J. Warren Hughes, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

As Clarified on Denial of Rehearing October 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Siemon and Wendy U. Larsen of Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock & Parsons, Chicago, Ill., W. Gray Dunlap, County Atty., and Helen K. Hobbs, Asst. County Atty., Clearwater, for appellant.

James A. Martin, Jr., of McMullen, Everett, Logan, Marquardt & Cline, Clearwater, for appellees.


SCHEB, Judge.

Appellant, Pinellas County, challenges a judgment for damages awarded against it because it withheld issuing a building permit to appellee landowners. We reverse.

On May 10, 1979, appellees Brown and Hughes applied to the county for a permit to erect a manufacturing plant for their yacht business. When appellees purchased their land in 1978, it was zoned M-1, an industrial classification which permitted their proposed use. Although there had...

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