Tennessee Manufactured Housing Ass'n v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a landowner’s efforts to place a double-wide manufactured home on property zoned for single-family residences. After his application for a building permit was denied, the landowner and an advocacy group promoting manufactured housing filed an action in the Chancery Court for Davidson County seeking a declaration that the city’s prohibition against locating manufactured housing in residential districts violated state law and was unconstitutional. 1 The trial court held that state law did not protect double-wide manufactured homes from exclusion from…