Smith v. City of Little Rock

The Little Rock Board (defendant) rezoned a residential parcel to general commercial use to permit a Wendy's, over the objections of neighboring residential property owners (plaintiffs) who cited reliance on residential zoning and predicted traffic, noise, and other harms; the city's zoning administrator testified other businesses already existed nearby, traffic was below capacity, and the rezoning was not spot zoning, and the chancellor found the plaintiffs failed to prove the rezoning was arbitrary and capricious.