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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Belle Terre v. Boraas
Citation:
416 U.S. 1 (1974)Facts
Belle Terre is a small village on Long Island with about 220 homes and 700 residents. The village enacted a zoning ordinance that restricted land use to one-family dwellings, excluding lodging houses, boarding houses, fraternity houses, or multiple-dwelling houses. The ordinance defined “family” as one or more persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage living together as a single housekeeping unit, or alternatively, up to two unrelated persons living together. The Dickmans owned a house in Belle Terre and leased it to six unrelated students from the nearby State University at Stony Brook. When the village served the Dickmans with an “Order to Remedy Violations” of the ordinance, the owners and three tenants brought an action challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance, claiming it violated equal protection by discriminating against households of unrelated individuals.
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