Title: Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. City of Jacksonville

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

68 So. 2d 570 (1953)
ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al.
v.
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.
December 11, 1953.
Ragland & Kurz, Jacksonville, for appellants.
William M. Madison and O.O. McCollum, Jr., Jacksonville, for appellee.
DREW, Justice.
This is an appeal from a final decree entered by the Circuit Court of Duval County upholding the validity of a zoning ordinance. The pertinent portions of the decree in which the facts are set forth with the conclusions thereon reached are:
We find ample support in the record for the findings of the lower court. It follows, therefore, that the decree must be affirmed on the authority of State ex rel. Office Realty Co. v. Ehinger, Fla., 46 So. 2d 601; City of Miami Beach v. Hogan, Fla., 63 So. 2d 493; Segal v. City of Miami, 63 So. 2d 496.
Neither the decree of the court below, nor this opinion and judgment, shall be construed to prevent the granting of a variance concerning the subject property *572 to appellant under the applicable provisions of the Zoning Code of the City of Jacksonville, if the City Commission should determine that such variance would be in harmony with the general purposes and intent of its Zoning Code to the end that the public health, safety and general welfare may be secured and substantial justice done.
Affirmed.
TERRELL, SEBRING, MATHEWS and HOBSON, JJ., concur.
ROBERTS, C.J., and THOMAS, J., dissent.