Can a city be sued for rezoning a property?
Can a landowner who planned to build a shopping plaza sue a city for changing the land’s zoning to “residential”? Maybe … but only if the rezoning almost totally destroyed the land’s value. That’s the result of a decision by a New York appeals court. Parviz Noghrey wanted to build a shopping center in Brookhaven, N.Y., but before he could do so the town adopted a moratorium on commercial development, and then changed the land’s zoning