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Snake River Brewing Company v. Town of Jackson

Supreme Court of Wyoming

39 P.3d 397 (2002)

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Snake River Brewing (plaintiff) obtained a 1993 permit allowing it to choose among on-site, off-site, or fee-in-lieu-of parking options, initially selecting a combination of on-site and off-site parking; after a 1995 rezoning removed its property from the fee-in-lieu-of-parking zone, Snake River invested $1 million in an approved 1998 expansion and then tried to invoke the fee-in-lieu-of-parking option to resolve off-site parking lease problems, but the Town of Jackson (defendant) argued that option had been abandoned since Snake River never used it originally.

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Whether, when a new zoning ordinance is enacted, existing uses that do not comply with the new regulations may continue until abandoned.

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