Court Opinion

ID: 9722048
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:15:30.305028+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:06:12.661933
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE O’BRIEN, dissenting: I respectfully dissent from the majority and would reverse the trial court. The majority asserts that Furniture L.L.C. acquired a vested right on the Homemaker’s site because it made substantial expenditures in a good-faith reliance that a building permit would issue. However, the record reflects that the City made no explicit or implicit assertions to Furniture L.L.C. and that Furniture L.L.C. did nothing, except expend assets, to protect the zoning of the real estate in question. Based upon those facts, there is no good-faith reliance that a building permit would issue; I respectfully dissent from the majority and would reverse the trial court.