Dewey Beach Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of Adjustment of Dewey Beach

How courts have described this case

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• applying the “well settled” “rules of statutory construction” to interpreting a zoning code
• “If [a statute] is unambiguous, no statutory construction is required, and the words in the statute are given their plain meaning.”
• “[T]o the extent that there is any doubt as to the correct interpretation, that doubt must be resolved in favor of the landowner.”
• “If [a statutory provision] is unambiguous, no statutory construction is required, and the words in the statute are given their plain meaning.”
• “[T]o the extent that there is any doubt as to the correct interpretation, that doubt must be resolved in favor of the landowner.”
• “[T]o the extent that there is any doubt as to the correct interpretation [of a zoning ordinance], that doubt must be resolved in favor of the landowner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).