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on February 25, 1997. This approval is clearly the type of action contemplated by the <br />Legislature when it passed the moratorium statute to ensure that property owners <br />and developers who had begun development would not be unfairly affected by city <br />zoning actions. <br /> <br /> Application of the moratorium to Apple Ridge would constitute illegal <br />"reverse spot zoning" under established principles of zoning law. Under the <br />principle of reverse spot zoning, governing authorities persist in enforcing long-ago <br />imposed zoning restrictions against property owners even when the authority has <br />since rezoned most of the adjoining area and relieved virtually all adjacent property <br />owners of the zoning restriction, resulting in a transformation in the character of <br />the area in question. City Commission v. Woodlawn Park Cemetery Co., 553 So. 2d <br />1227, 1231 (Fla. App. 3 Dist. 1989). <br /> <br /> It is clear to even a casual traveler through the City of Ramsey that the area <br />surrounding Mr. Barthold's hog farm has either already been rezoned for urban <br />residential development or shortly will be under the Comprehensive Plan. Good <br />Value's proposed plat is consistent with the evolving use of land in tlhe City of <br />Ramsey. To deny Good Value's plat appl!cation would constitute illegal reverse <br />spot zoning. <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br /> <br />