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GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH v. CITY OF OXFORD

No. 456A86.

358 S.E.2d 372 (1987)

320 N.C. 439

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH OF OXFORD, North Carolina; Reverend Cecil Newton, Pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Oxford, North Carolina; and Eugene C. Shearon, Deacon and Trustee, James Taylor Hutson, Trustee, and Mark Compton, Trustee and all Members of the Grace Baptist Church of Oxford, North Carolina v. The CITY OF OXFORD, North Carolina; Hugh M. Currin, Mayor and Member of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Oxford, North Carolina; Hubert L. Cox, Allie G. Ellington, Stanley Fox, J. Eddie McCoy, Robert T. Powell, James W. Smith, and A.B. Swindell, Members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Oxford, North Carolina; H.T. Ragland, Jr., City Manager of the City of Oxford, North Carolina; Frank White, Building Inspector of the City of Oxford, North Carolina, and the State of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 28, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Beverly Lake, Wake Forest, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Haywood, Denny, Miller, Johnson, Sessoms & Patrick by George W. Miller, Jr., and Robert W. Oast, Jr., Durham, and Watkins, Finch & Hopper by Daniel Finch, Oxford, for defendants-appellees.

MEYER, Justice.

We will refer to the appellants herein in the singular, i.e., Grace Baptist Church. On appeal, appellant contends that a zoning ordinance of the City of Oxford is unconstitutional on its face and as applied. Specifically, appellant contends that an ordinance requiring off-street paved parking violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions. The Court of Appeals ruled on the facial validity of the ordinance...

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