Adult Group Properties, Ltd. v. Imler

I dissent. If our courts persist in excluding family-type residential units from the definition of a "single family dwelling", then the elderly, the developmentally disabled, the retarded, the physically handicapped, and foster children-all of whom, with minimal help, could live in a family setting with the normal patterns and conditions of everyday life-must be confined to nursing homes and institutions, in some cases permanently, where no family atmosphere is present.

In Metropolitan Development Commission of Marion County v. The Villages, Inc. (1984), Ind.App., 464 N.E.2d 367, trans.…