Case histories

FMCA has compiled the following case histories that relate to restrictions of motorhome parking on private residential property. The cases provide an overview of how and under what circumstances municipalities and landowner associations may restrict the parking of motorhomes. Cases in which private landowners have successfully challenged parking restrictions are included.

• Authority of municipalities to regulate and control land use through zoning
   
• Establishing the police power of a municipality to promote the health, safety and welfare of the public
   
• Substantive due process challenges to zoning ordinances
   
• Bans on the parking of motorhomes on private residential property
   
• Whether aesthetics, by itself, is a sufficient justification for zoning ordinances restricting use of private property
   
• Whether restrictions on private property constitute a compensable taking of the property by the government
   
• Enforcement of zoning code violations is a civil matter
   
• Restriction imposed by developers and community associations