Dick Kelly Enterprises v. City of Norfolk

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• holding that estoppel does not apply against the government’s enforcement of a zoning ordinance
• concluding that a landowner could not challenge a zoning violation under a vested rights theory, because his use of the property as an apartment complex rather than a motel was unlawful from the start
• concluding that a landowner could not challenge a zoning violation under a vested rights theory, because his use of the property as an apartment complex rather than a motel was unlawful from the start
• “The question whether to limit pre-trial discovery is a matter within the sound judicial discretion of the trial court.”
• “[E]xhaustion of administrative remedies where zoning ordinances are involved is essential before a judicial attack may be mounted against the interpretation of such ordinances.”

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