Renard v. Dade County

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• re-zoning of petitioner's neighbor's adjoining property from industrial to residential use conferred standing upon petitioner to challenge validity of zoning action as unreasonable because it adversely affected her legally recognizable interests by increasing her setback requirements
• any affected resident, citizen, or property owner of governmental unit in question has standing to challenge zoning ordinance which is void because not properly enacted
• generally, challenging an exercise of zoning authority requires a plaintiff to prove special damages different in land from that suffered by the community as a whole
• “So-called ‘spite suits’ will not be tolerated in this area of the law any more than in any other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).