Legal Opinion
Brister v. Tacoma City Council
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided October 21, 1980No. 4589-IIPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPetrie, J.
This is the saga of a real estate developer's attempts to construct multifamily housing on portions of a 29.5-acre tract of land in Tacoma zoned "R-2", single family residential, and encumbered by restrictive deed covenants which prohibit business or commercial use or any use other than single family residences.
The cause comes to us on an appeal by the City of Tacoma and by Kurtis R. Mayer, d/b/a Mayer Built Homes, from a 1980 judgment which (1) reimposed the restrictive deed covenants which previously, under specified restrictions, had been removed from portions of the land by a judgment in…
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