Anderson v. Griffith

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a zoning variance is akin to a “safety valve” of zoning administration, operating as a “waiver of the strict letter of the zoning ordinance without sacrifice to its spirit and purpose”
• “findings of the trial court are within its sound discretion, particularly when a view has been taken”
• where application of ordinance prevents property owner from making any reasonable use of the land, sufficient hardship exists to grant variance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).