Opinion

Marshall v. Salt Lake City

  • 105 Utah 111
  • 141 P.2d 704
  • 149 A.L.R. 282
  • 1943 Utah LEXIS 9
Court
Utah Supreme Court
Filed
Sep 25, 1943
Status
Published
Author
McDONOUGH
On the bench
Larson, McDonough, Moffat, Faust, Wolfe, Pratt'
Cited by
33 cases

stating, in reviewing a legislative zoning action: "If a [zoning] classification is reasonably doubtful, the judgment of the court will not be substituted for the judgment of the city." (emphasis added)

How later courts described this case

  • stating, in reviewing a legislative zoning action: "If a [zoning] classification is reasonably doubtful, the judgment of the court will not be substituted for the judgment of the city." (emphasis added)
  • "Being set up on such a definite and comprehensive plan it cannot be said to be arbitrary or discriminatory."
  • noting that accountability for balancing competing interests in zoning decisions properly resides in the "governing body of the city"
  • “If a classification is reasonably doubtful, the judgment of the court will not be substituted for the judgment of the city.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

McDONOUGH, Justice

(concurring in the result).

I concur in the result. The designation of the described tracts at the intersecting through highways, as described in the opinion of Mr. Justice LARSON, as Zone “C” Districts, cannot be said as a matter1 of law not to have been made in accordance with a “comprehensive plan” designed “to promote the health and general welfare;” nor can it be said not to have been done with reasonable consideration of the character of the district in question and its peculiar suitability for the particular uses to which the ordinance permitted it to be devoted. This being so, it is not our province to interfere with the legislative discretion which placed such districts in that particular zone.

I concur in what is said in the opinion relative to the second cause of action.

MOFFAT, J., and FAUST, District Judge, concur in the result.

WOLFE, C. J., not participating.

PRATT', Justice, on leave of absence.

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