Opinion ID: 2610119
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Heading: the board of adjustment and appeals is without jurisdiction to hear this controversy

Text: Appellees, in going before the Board of Adjustment and Appeals requested that prior zoning regulations rather than those in effect be applied to Denning's property. The nature of this request, however, precludes an administrative assumption of jurisdiction. This case does not involve a petition for a variance. [5] With the enactment of Ordinance No. 641 on December 19, 1969 a change of law occurred. In hearing thereafter the dispute at hand, the Board of Adjustment and Appeals was bound to enforce the terms of Ordinance No. 641 effective at this time because to apply prior zoning regulations would nullify existing legislation. Russian Hill Imp. Ass'n v. Board of Permit Appeals, 66 Cal.2d 34, 56 Cal. Rptr. 672, 676, 423 P.2d 824, 828 (1967); Deer Park Civic Ass'n v. City of Chicago, 347 Ill. App. 346, 350, 106 N.E.2d 823, 825 (1952); Lee v. Board of Adjustment, 226 N.C. 107, 111-112, 37 S.W.2d 128, 132 (1946). As the Board of Adjustment and Appeals was without jurisdiction to authorize Denning to proceed with construction, the trial court's judgment remanding the matter to this agency was error and is reversed.