Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch

DENNIS, Circuit Judge,

joined by REAVLEY, PRADO, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges, specially concurring:

I concur in affirming the district court’s judgment permanently enjoining Farmers Branch Ordinance 2592 because federal law preempts and renders it invalid. Although I agree with many of the reasons Judge Higginson assigns in the lead opin*544ion for reaching the same result, I believe the Ordinance is even more fundamentally flawed than he indicates.1 In my view, the Ordinance is preempted in all of its core provisions by the comprehensive and interrelated federal legislative schemes governing the…