Court Opinion

ID: 9597059
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:55:12.529814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:36.622250
License: Public Domain

Hill, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion and judgment of the court and add this concurring opinion simply to point out that in my view mandamus will not lie in a case of this type.
The majority hold that the trial judge should not have ordered the issuance of the building permit, for the reason that courts lack the power to zone and rezone property. In other words, although having the power to declare a zoning ordinance unconstitutional and void, courts lack the power to require in the same suit the issuance of a building permit by mandamus. To me it logically follows that mandamus will not lie in a case of this type. See Riverhill Community Association v. Cobb County Board of Commissioners, 236 Ga. 856 (1976).