{"id":894,"date":"2012-05-22T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-05-22T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:08:06","slug":"village-of-belle-terre-v-boraas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miblaw.com\/lawschool\/village-of-belle-terre-v-boraas\/","title":{"rendered":"Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, 416 US 1 (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong> The Village of Belle Terre is located on Long Island&#8217;s north shore and is inhabited by 700 people. Belle Terre restricts land use to one-family dwellings and Boraas became a colessee with five other college students. The Village of Belle Terre\u00a0 defines &#8220;family&#8221; as &#8220;One or more persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, exclusive of household servants. A number of persons but not exceeding two (2) living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption, or marriage shall be deemed to constitute a family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issue:<\/strong> Whether the zoning ordinance interferes with certain fundamental rights such as the right to travel, immigrate to and settle within a State, barring people who are uncongenial to the present residents\u2026and that the ordinance is antithetical to the Nation&#8217;s experience, ideology and self-perception as an open, egalitarian, and integrated society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding:<\/strong> The zoning ordinance is upheld.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasoning:<\/strong> Zoning ordinances are legitimate police powers of the state, there is no fundamental right involved, and therefore, the zoning ordinance only needs to be &#8220;reasonable, not arbitrary&#8221; and bear a &#8220;rational relationship to a permissible state objective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dissent<\/strong> (Justice Marshall): The classification burdens the students&#8217; fundamental rights of association and privacy guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Therefore, the ordinance should not just be subjected to a rational basis review. Also, the Village of Belle Terre is free to limit the density of occupancy but cannot limit the density only in homes occupied by unrelated persons &#8211; the Village is then regulating the way people choose to associate with each other within the privacy of their own homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts: The Village of Belle Terre is located on Long Island&#8217;s north shore and is inhabited by 700 people. Belle Terre restricts land use to one-family dwellings and Boraas became a colessee with five other college students. 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