Authority
Generally, zoning is a constitutional exercise of a state's police power and so spot zoning would be a constitutional exercise of zoning power by a local zoning authority if the state zoning enabling law allows spot zoning.
Spot zoning may be an invalid exercise of a local authority's zoning power if the state zoning enabling law prohibits spot zoning. While zoning regulates the land use in whole districts spot zoning makes exceptions for parcel/s within a district.
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—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
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—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)