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COUNTY OF FAIRFAX v. SOUTHERN IRON WORKS

Record No. 910097.

410 S.E.2d 674 (1991)

COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, et al., v. SOUTHERN IRON WORKS, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 8, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Walk (Everette G. Allen, Jr., Robert T. Billingsley, David T. Stitt, County Atty., Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, on brief), for appellants.

M. Langhorne Keith (Paul C. Skelly, John Holland Foote, Jerry K. Emrich, Thomas F. Farrell, Hogan and Hartson, Hazel & Thomas, Walsh, Colucci, Emrich and Lubeley, McGuire, Woods, Battle and Boothe, on brief), for appellees.

The Fairfax County Federation of Citizens Associations, The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area, The Citizens Committee on Land Use and Transp., Citizens for Balanced Growth, The Brookfield Citizens Ass'n, The Chantilly Coalition for Planned Growth, The Providence Dist. Council, The Annandale Dist. Council, Homeowners Against Neighborhood Destruction, and The Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Dist. (Walter G. Talarek, on brief), amicus curiae, for appellants.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING and KEENAN, JJ., POFF, Senior Justice, and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

KEENAN, Justice.

In this appeal, Fairfax County seeks reversal of a decision in which the trial court declared invalid the Zoning Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) enacted by the Board of Supervisors on December 11, 1989. The trial court declared the ZOA invalid on four separate procedural grounds. We conclude that the trial court erred in invalidating the ZOA on each of the four grounds upon which it relied. Therefore, we will reverse its decision, and based on this action...

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