CITY OF OKOBOJI, IOWA vs. OKOBOJI BARZ, INC., d/b/a OKOBOJI BOATS and LEO PARKS, JR.

State: Iowa

Docket No: 65 / 04-1554

Case Date: 05/26/2006

Plaintiff: CITY OF OKOBOJI, IOWA

Defendant: OKOBOJI BARZ, INC., d/b/a OKOBOJI BOATS and LEO PARKS, JR.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA

No. 65 / 04-1554

Filed May 26, 2006

CITY OF OKOBOJI, IOWA,

Appellant,

vs.

OKOBOJI BARZ, INC., d/b/a
OKOBOJI BOATS and LEO PARKS, JR.,

Appellees.

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Dickinson County, John P. Duffy, Judge.

The city appeals an adverse judgment denying its request for an injunction to enjoin a bar from operating within the city limits. REVERSED AND CASE REMANDED WITH DIRECTIONS.

Michael J. Chozen of Chozen & Saunders, Spirit Lake, for appellant.

Mark McCormick of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn, P.C., Des Moines, and Phil C. Redenbaugh of Phil C. Redenbaugh, P.C., Storm Lake, for appellees.

WIGGINS, Justice.
In this appeal, we must decide whether the proposed operation of a bar on lakefront property constitutes an unlawful expansion of a nonconforming use under a city

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