Gorgone v. District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment

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• explaining that to establish abandonment, there must be both an intent to abandon and an overt act or failure to act implying abandonment
• acknowledging nonconforming uses as “uses that were valid at the time the zoning regulations were adopted [and] were allowed to continue even if those uses no longer conformed to the regulations”
• “[F]ailures of prior zoning administrations” to adhere to zoning regulations “do not bind the hands of zoning administrators who later wish to give the law its full effect, at least where, as here, there is no viable claim of laches, estoppel, or the like.”

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