Court Opinion

ID: 9670415
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:20:05.644809+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:33.049829
License: Public Domain

Yetka, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part). I concur in that portion of the opinion which holds that the rezoning by the city of St. Paul was proper in this case.
*450I dissent from that portion of the opinion that would remand the case to the trial court. I would not remand, but would hold that the city of St. Paul need not securq the consent of adjoining property owners when the municipal body itself initiates the proposed rezoning. Otherwise, disagreeing citizens might defeat an overall comprehensive plan to rezone a whole city by refusing to consent to the rezoning of their particular area. Should the city council decide that rezoning of the city area by area is the most practical and expedient way, it would be foreclosed from using that process if the population of one area opposed the change.