Court Opinion

ID: 9724430
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:56:25.261489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:00.215035
License: Public Domain

VANDE WALLE, Justice,
concurring in the result.
In addition to the list of reasons for which spot zoning cannot be used, such as “to favor” and to “offer special privileges that are not enjoyed by neighboring property,” we add “to correct mistakes made by the zoning administration in issuing a building permit.” It appears to me that Stark County employed a pragmatic solution to what began as an unfortunate problem for the Wahls. That solution, to permit them to place a mobile home on their lot, would not have seriously compromised the integrity and value of the other buildings in the subdivision, unless expanded to other instances, which it obviously would not since the permit was an honest mistake in the first instance. The record reflects the mobile home was actually a structure with additions to a single-wide mobile home body and pitched roof added to the body and its additions. Nevertheless, the law, and of necessity, this Court, deals with technicalities and pragmatism should not interfere. I concur in the result.