Legal Opinion
Hawkins v. Town of Foster
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 6, 1998No. 93-524-Appeal, 95-584-AppealPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LEDERBERG, Justice.
These consolidated cases arose out of John and Bertha Hawkins’s (Hawkinses) operation of a camping facility in the Town of Foster, Rhode Island (Foster or town). At issue are the validity of the town’s campground ordinance and the applicability of the town’s zoning ordinances and its ordinances that license trailers and trailer parks. Basically, this litigation centers on whether the Hawkinses should be allowed to accommodate trailers on a year-round basis at their campground. For the following reasons, we sustain Foster’s appeal in Hawkins v. Town of Foster, (No.…
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