Court Opinion

ID: 8292216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 10:49:06.110047+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:54.042340
License: Public Domain

Harwell, Justice
(concurring):
*73Petitioners brought this action to overturn Richland County Council’s refusal to rezone their property as C-3 (General Commercial). We granted certiorari to review the opinion of the Court of Appeals which upheld Council’s decision.
This Court will not overturn the decision of a zoning authority unless the decision is not fairly debatable. Rushing v. City of Greenville, 265 S. C. 285, 217 S. E. (2d) 797 (1975). A decision is not fairly debatable if it is so unreasonable as to impair or destroy a Constitutional right. Id.
While I question the wisdom of Council’s decision, I can not say that the decision is not fairly debatable. Therefore, I agree that the writ of certiorari was improvidently granted.