Supreme Court of Texas

A city can enforce a zoning ordinance against a property owner whose substantially completed new home has been built in violation of the ordinance, even though the city had given preliminary approval to the owner-s building plans.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2005
• Decided 04/07/2006
• Published 04/07/2006

Judges

• Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, Justice JOHNSON and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher D. Bowers, Asst. City Atty., Dallas, Paul A. Fletcher, San Antonio, for petitioners., Maxine Aaronson, Angela Annette Hunt, McKool Smith, Julia F. Pendery, Jonathan G. Vinson, Jackson Walker L.L.P., Dallas, Snapper L. Carr, Texas Municipal League, Austin, for amicus curiae


• For Appellees:
  
• Roger Albright, Law Offices of Roger Albright, Dallas, for respondents.