Legal Opinion
Dews v. Town of Sunnyvale, Tex.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided August 1, 2000No. CA 3:88-CV-1604-RPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BUCHMEYER, Chief Judge.
Approximately twelve miles east of the central business district of Dallas lies the aptly-named town of Sunnyvale. Nestled in the midst of towns defined by the shopping malls and dense apartment development for which the Dallas Metropolitan Area has become famous, Sunnyvale presents a stark contrast. It is a beautiful, rural, Texas town with almost 11,000 acres of rolling hills and green grassland and only 2,000 residents. Sunnyvale has no shopping malls and no apartment developments. The secret to Sunnyvale’s success is its unusual zoning laws,…
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