The owners of 510 Farmington argue that the zoning regulations create a "hardship," but that's hardly convincing. They claim that the regulations prohibit "the historic use of the property" (it was once a gas station). In fact, the B-3 designation permitting drive-throughs reflects "spot zoning" that a handful of parcels got in the 1950s and 1960s through political connections, and that shouldn't have been awarded to begin with. And court rulings in Connecticut have affirmed that a zoning regulation creates a hardship only when it renders a lot "practically unbuildable" and thus "destroys its value." Such is hardly the case here.