Banks v. Florida

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• when purchaser purchased a small parcel, knowing that he would need a variance to develop, hardship found to be self-created
• “[T]here must be an affirmative act by the applicant which created the hardship peculiar to the property involved.”
• A whether the variance sought be use or area, no distinction is permitted in the application of the statutory standards@
• A To hold otherwise would encourage evasion of local zoning regulations through the selective purchasing of sub-parcels of property that by their physical nature and size would be appropriate subjects for a variance.@
• all variances of whatever type must meet the five criteria

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).