McLean's Executors v. Wade

How courts have described this case

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• holding that more than mere economic hardship exists if a property cannot be conformed to a permitted use without demolition and extensive reconstruction
• “where premises cannot be converted into a permitted use without demolition or extensive reconstruction more than ‘mere economic hardship’ exists”
• variance properly granted where the Board found that “the property is totally unusable for any purpose permitted within the zone without demolition and extensive reconstruction and that such actions are not feasible for the site in question”
• existence of nonconforming structure may constitute unnecessary hardship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).