Cherokee County v. Martin

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• zoning ordinance is in derogation of common law and all ambiguities must be construed against local government and in favor of free use of property
• zoning not conditioned on compliance with site plan where the zoning decision did not expressly so state
• It would be unreasonable to infer that the county intended to exclude assisted living facilities as a use anywhere in the county.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).