Legal Opinion
Bettendorf v. St. Croix County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 2011No. 10-1359PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from a dispute between John Bettendorf and St. Croix County over the zoning of Bettendorf’s property. Pursuant to an ordinance enacted by the County in 1985, a portion of Bettendorf's land was re-zoned from agricultural-residential to commercial. The ordinance contained a condition that the parcel would revert to agricultural-residential upon the death of Bettendorf or by Bettendorf’s transfer of the parcel to a new owner.
In 2004, Bettendorf filed an action in the Circuit Court for St. Croix County seeking a declaratory judgment that the conditional…
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