Carl M. Freeman Associates, Inc. v. Green

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “substantial compliance” was insufficient, because “zoning ordinances are in derogation of common law property rights, [there must be] strict compliance with the [legislated] procedures”
• suggesting its discomfort with the distinction between the strict and substantial compliance standards by finding its decision would be no different under the substantial compliance standard after it struck down an ordinance under the strict compliance standard
• “The [General Assembly] delegates authority to the [counties] to adopt zoning regulations. . . . Because zoning ordinances are in derogation of common law property rights, [there must be] strict compliance with the [legislated] procedures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).