This publish was authored by Sebastian Perez of Touro Faculty Jacob D. Fuchsberg Laws Coronary heart
When a gaggle of landowners had their enchancment utility denied by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners after its in depth consider and suggestion of approval from the zoning listening to understand, the making use of was denied and appealed to the circuit courtroom docket the place the denial was upheld. This attraction adopted.
The Petitioners hoped to develop a “deliberate village” neighborhood in a rural house of southern Hillsborough County. Their enchancment utility was reviewed by fairly just a few authorities firms, and none opposed it. When the making use of went sooner than the Hillsborough County Charge at a public listening to, 4 residents had spoken out in the direction of it. Dividedly, the Charge voted in the direction of the making use of outright. On first tier consider inside the circuit courtroom docket, it determined the Petitioners failed to meet their burden of displaying their proposed rezoning was based on the county’s full plan.
In the middle of the second-tier consider, the appellate courtroom docket felt the lower courtroom docket’s willpower could not be justified as a result of overwhelming proof that demonstrated the proposed enchancment’s consistency with the requirements of the deliberate enchancment zoning classifications and the wonderful plan. Nonetheless, the Courtroom docket could not give assist to the Petitioners whatever the lower courtroom docket’s error on account of their scope of the consider was restricted as to if the circuit courtroom docket afforded procedural due course of and whether or not or not the circuit courtroom docket utilized the correct laws. The Courtroom docket was guided partially by the extraordinary deference to the purported expertise of firm fact-finding in zoning determinations. The Courtroom docket concluded Petitioners’ property rights have been curtailed nevertheless could not grant assist on account of it was constrained by the standard of consider.
Balm Road Funding, LLC v Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, 2020 WL 413683 (FL App. 2/11/2022)