The Doctrine of Vested Rights says otherwise.
The Doctrine of Vested Rights? says otherwise: CHECK MATE
The doctrine of vested rights protects property owners and developers from changes in zoning when they have received a valid building permit and have completed substantial construction and made substantial expenditures in reliance on the permit. This doctrine allows the owner or developer to proceed in accordance with the prior zoning provision as they have vested rights to a validly issued permit
In every vested rights case, a legislative body has changed law to cure perceived defects in prior law – The doctrine exists to ameliorate the tyranny of the majority. For example, when majority rule changes land use law, courts must balance the “interests of the public as a whole and those of individual property owners and in many cases, the elements of good faith and bad faith and resort to equity and equitable principles.”
The "vested rights doctrine" is the rule of zoning law :
by which an owner or developer is entitled to proceed in accordance with the prior zoning provision where there has been a substantial change of position, expenditures, or incurrence of obligations made in good faith by an innocent party under a building permit or in reliance upon the probability of its issuance.
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