Borough of Glassboro v. Vallorosi

In September 1966, plaintiff Borough of Glassboro filed a Chancery action seeking to enjoin defendants, Diane Vallorosi and Paul Sages, from allowing their Glassboro home to be *92occupied by “persons who do not constitute a family as defined in the Glassboro zoning ordinance.” The ordinance, which Glassboro concedes was intended to prevent unrelated college students from living together, limits residence in the single family zone to “single housekeeping units” bearing the characteristics of the “traditional family” or its functional equivalent. Defendants raised a number of defenses including…