[aristeides]

In Village of Euclid, Ohio, v. Ambler Realty, the Supreme Court upheld zoning by only a 5-4 vote in the 1920's. In fact, there's reason to believe there was a 5-4 majority to rule against zoning until one of the justices switched. I wonder if these covenants would be enforceable if the Supreme Court had ruled against zoning.

[DWSUWF]

".... I wonder if these covenants would be enforceable if the Supreme Court had ruled against zoning..."

Well, I think we've got some folks, right here on this thread, who would argue that a world without strict zoning, and all the legal baggage it brings, would be a world where cats would lay down with dogs, where day would be turned to night, where the fabric of time and space itself would unravel...

But I think that we'd simply have a world where it was a bit harder for people to mind any business save their own.

That's a very good, and sadly unanswerable, question.