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· 11/16/1978

Duckworth v. City of Bonney Lake

Citations

  • 586 P.2d 860
  • 91 Wash. 2d 19
  • 1978 Wash. LEXIS 1145

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • addressing facial challenge to ordinance banning mobile homes and holding ordinance was constitutional
  • \While we have indicated that aesthetic considerations alone may not support invocation of the police powers . . .\. (Italics ours.)
  • “[O]ur review must be limited to considering only the uncontroverted facts developed by the pleadings, or by factual concessions made in the City’s brief.”
  • municipal zoning ordinances will be upheld as valid exercises of police power if they promote the public health, safety, or welfare, and bear a reasonable and substantial relation to accomplishing the purpose pursued
  • municipality cannot totally exclude mobile homes from a community

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Judges: Stafford

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