Furlong Companies v. City of Kansas City

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• holding that when a city body proceeds under an ordinance, it is \acting in an administrative capacity and not in a legislative capacity\
• ruling that the evidentiary record may be developed before the trial court in a non-contested case on the basis of a state statute that expressly provides that judicial review in non-contested cases is not limited to the administrative record
• “Zoning is the exercise of legislative authority as to what land uses are in the interest of the public for particular areas within the political subdivision.”
• “Zoning is the exercise of legislative authority as to what land uses are in the interest of the public for particular areas within the political subdivision.”
• “A litigant asking relief by mandamus must allege and prove that he has a clear, unequivocal, specific right to a thing claimed.”
• “[A] litigant asking relief by mandamus must allege and prove that he has a clear, unequivocal, specific right to a thing claimed.”

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