Board of County Commissioners of Brevard County v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Florida
627 So.2d 469 (1993)
Jack and Gail Snyder (plaintiffs) owned land zoned for single-family homes and applied to Brevard County (defendant) to rezone it for multi-family dwellings. After neighbors objected, the county denied the application without explanation. In the resulting suit, the trial court treated the decision as quasi-judicial subject to strict review, required the county to prove by clear and convincing evidence why the public good required keeping the current zoning, and ruled for Snyder. Brevard sought review in the Florida Supreme Court.
Whether a municipality's decision on a rezoning application affecting only a small number of people is quasi-judicial rather than legislative, requiring the municipality merely to show its denial was not arbitrary.