Miller v. City of Albuquerque

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that incidental economic loss resulting from zoning restrictions is \merely the price of living in a modern enlightened and progressive community\ (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• recognizing that incidental economic loss resulting from zoning restrictions is “merely the price of living in a modern enlightened and progressive community” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• holding that failure by municipal legislative body to follow regulations for accepting zone change applications imposed on others that were adopted by exercise of its legislative power was fatal to its decision on the application
• noting importance of promoting “the desirable stability of zoning classifications upon which the property owner has a right to rely”
• noting that the change or mistake rule supports the “desirable stability of zoning classifications upon which the property owner has a right to rely, since property may be purchased and sold or uses of the property undertaken in reliance on existing classifications”
• discussing “the desirable stability of zoning classifications upon which the property owner has a right to rely, since property may be purchased and sold or uses of the property undertaken in reliance on existing classifications.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).