Tofias v. Butler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting underlying “desire to permit land owners to enjoy the use of their entire properties as single units”
• allowing landowner of a split lot to aggregate property in both zoning districts to meet minimum lot size requirements
• landowner permitted to build structure on commercial portion of split lot using residential portion for purpose of calculating lot coverage requirements under zoning ordinance
• equating “lot coverage” with the footprint of a building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).