SEABROOKE PARTNERS v. CITY OF CHESAPEAKE

Record No. 890754.

393 S.E.2d 191 (1990)

SEABROOKE PARTNERS v. CITY OF CHESAPEAKE.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover C. Wright, Jr., Virginia Beach, for appellant.

William F. Devine (Robert C. Nusbaum, Patrick C. Devine, Jr., Ronald S. Hallman, City Atty., Jan Proctor, Asst. City Atty., Hofheimer, Nusbaum, McPhaul & Samuels, Norfolk, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

In this appeal, we determine whether a piecemeal reduction of permissible residential density, a so-called downzoning, from multi-family to single-family residential use was justified on the ground of the surrounding neighborhood's changed circumstances.

On February 21, 1969, the Planning Commission of the City of Chesapeake approved a property owner's preliminary subdivision plat of a 34-acre tract of land on Bells Mill Road in the City...

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