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EX PARTE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE

1950751.

693 So.2d 465 (1996)

Ex parte CITY OF JACKSONVILLE. (Re Anthony W. COUCH v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. Stanley Thornton of Wooten, Thornton, Carpenter, O'Brien, Lazenby & Lawrence, Talladega, for Petitioner.

Douglas Corretti and Mary Douglas Hawkins of Corretti, Newsom, Cleveland, Hawkins & Cleveland, Birmingham, for Respondent.

MADDOX, Justice.

The Jacksonville City Council, acting upon a recommendation by the Planning Commission, adopted an ordinance that rezoned a 200-acre tract of land from an R-2 classification, which permits multi-family dwellings, to R-1, which restricts use to single-family dwellings. The area rezoned included a 6.2-acre tract owned by Anthony W. Couch.

Couch sued the City of Jacksonville, asking the trial court to declare that the City's action was arbitrary...

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