Court Opinion

ID: 9557621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:53:24.24541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:05.724861
License: Public Domain

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE PRINGLE
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The majority opinion today announces the rule that any activity operating under a valid legislative zoning authority can never be declared a public nuisance by the courts. I cannot agree. The welfare, the safety, and the health of the public, including its right to a decent environment, transcends, in my view, the right to engage in a zone permitted business, and where that business is so conducted as to detrimentally affect the public health, welfare, and safety, including the public’s right to a decent environment, and thus become a danger to them, then it becomes a public nuisance subject to control by the courts.