A federal judge has ruled in favor of landowners enmeshed in a legal battle with Liberty Township over a proposed Wal-Mart store in southern Delaware County. The 34-acre parcel that the Wedgewood Limited Partnership owns at Sawmill Parkway and North Hampton Drive was proposed as the site of a Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Liberty Township officials in 2004 denied a zoning permit when they determined that the 220,598-square-foot building exceeded a cap on square footage the township had set for the Wedgewood Commerce Center district. But Judge Algenon L. Marbley, in a decision issued Friday in U.S. District Court in Columbus, ruled that the township's reasoning in denying the permit was unconstitutionally vague and that subsequent actions violated the partnership's constitutional right to due process.
