Burgess v. Crippen Oldsmobile, Inc.
Burgess v. Crippen Oldsmobile, Inc.
Opinion of the Court
The appellants, who were some of the plaintiffs below, seek reversal of a judgment denying plaintiffs’ suit to enjoin the defendant Crippen Oldsmobile, Inc. from using, for used car sales purposes, a narrow strip of property adjoining its main business property. Fifteen years earlier the subject property had been zoned for apartment residential use. A portion of the property, representing between one third and one half thereof, being the part directly adjacent to the Crippen business property, is properly used for business purposes by Crippen in accordance with its nonconforming use status- and a variance previously issued therefor. In 1968 the City of North Miami issued a permit to Crippen to erect lights on the property (incident to its use thereof for used car sales purposes), and in 1969 the city issued a permit to Crippen to pave the property.
Affirmed.
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