Swain v. County of Winnebago

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• holding that Swain, individually as owner of a shoe store in downtown Rockford, and Central City Council, a downtown business council, were unable to establish that they would personally suffer special damage (alleged increase of vehicular traffic and overtaxed area services
• holding that Swain, individually as owner of a shoe store in downtown Rockford, and Central City Council, a downtown business council, were unable to establish that they would personally suffer special damage (alleged increase of vehicular traffic and overtaxed area services
• citing, inter alia, Kreatchman v. Ramsburg, supra, 224 Md. at 220, 167 A.2d 345 (internal citations omitted)
• “It is not the function of the county zoning ordinances to provide economic protection for existing businesses.”
• “Neither the fact that parties may suffer reduced incomes or be put out of business by more vigorous or appealing competition, nor the fact that properties on which such businesses are operated would thus depreciate in value, give rise to a standing to sue.”
• dismissal of complaint seeking declaratory judgment that zoning ordinance was invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).