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Keyword: deedrestrictions

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  • Fledgling land developers will offer sex-offender-free-zone housing subdivision

    04/19/2005 6:35:07 AM PDT · by hispanarepublicana · 11 replies · 482+ views
    FoxTalk 950 AM/Fox 34 TV | 4/19/05 | Local Fox Affiliate
    Sorry I don't have a link, but this local affiliate doesn't publish its stories on the web. Basically, a group of 3 young Texas Tech University students have formed a real estate development company that will be developing a tract of land in Lubbock, Texas, that will feature deeds that ban registered sex offenders. They have checked this out with a lawyer and it is perfectly legal as sex offenders are not a "protected class". The ban will follow the deed. If a home owner or someone living in a home there suddenly becomes a registered sex offender, then the...
  • Garage, meet thy doom: Court backs deed restrictions

    12/10/2003 6:02:42 AM PST · by toddst · 87 replies · 385+ views
    Lexington Herald-Leader ^ | Wed, Dec. 10, 2003 | Cheryl Truman
    The $70,000 garage at Lexington's Stonewall Equestrian Estates must come down, the Court of Appeals has ruled. That's the latest in a long-running battle between the neighborhood association and Carolyn and Don Colliver, who built the all-brick garage. Nobody claims it isn't well-built. Nobody disputes that the Collivers, who lived in neighboring Stonewall for 30 years, have put about $110,000 of improvements into their $265,000 house at Stonewall Equestrian, not including the garage. Nobody disputes that the argument has gone on too long: The Collivers broke ground for their garage more than three years ago. What has been hotly disputed...