When is a zoning authority acting in a quasi-judicial capacity?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Service Corporation International (Canada) Inc. v. Burnaby (City of), 1999 CanLII 7012 (BC SC):
When council is exercising its zoning power to resolve a land use issue that involves a conflict of interests between private individuals who are affected, it is acting in a quasi-judicial capacity: Wiswell et al v. Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, 1965 CanLII 106 (SCC), [1965] S.C.R. 512, 51 W.W.R. 513, 51 D.L.R. (2d) 754.
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