Keller v. City of Council Bluffs, Iowa

How courts have described this case

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• zoning ordinance not violated where a reasonable exception is based upon the character and use of the property not similar to other property in the district
• city produced evidence in support of zoning ordinance that building could not be used as private dwelling
• city produced evidence in support of zoning ordinance that building could not be used as private dwelling
• “[I]f the only reasonable use of the property is seriously affected by the zoning ordinance, the owner should be entitled to re-lief_”
• “So if the only reasonable use of the property is seriously affected by the zoning ordinance, the owner should be entitled to relief * * *”
• “Property cannot be confiscated under the guise of police power. Thus an ordinance may be valid in its general aspect and at the same time be clearly arbitrary and unreasonable as applied to a particular state of facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).