DREES CO. v. HAMILTON TWP.

No. CA2009-11-150.

2010 Ohio 3473

The Drees Company, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Hamilton Township, Ohio, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Twelfth District, Warren County.

July 26, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keating, Muething & Klekamp PPL, Joseph L. Trauth, Jr., Thomas M. Tepe, Charles M. Miller, One East Fourth Street, Suite 1400, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, for plaintiffs-appellants, The Drees Company, Fischer Single Family Homes II, LLC, John Henry Homes, Inc., Charleston Signature Homes, LLC, and Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati

Aronoff Rosen & Hunt, Richard A. Paolo, Kevin L. Swick, 425 Walnut Street, Suite 2200, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, for plaintiffs-appellants, The Drees Company, Fischer Single Family Homes II, LLC, John Henry Homes, Inc., Charleston Signature Homes, LLC, and Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati

Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, LLP, Wilson G. Weisenfelder, Jr., James Englert and Lynne M. Longtin, One West Fourth Street, Suite 900, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, and Keating Ritchie, Warren J. Ritchie, 5300 Socialville-Foster Road, Mason, Ohio 45040, for defendants-appellees, Hamilton Township, Ohio and Hamilton Township Board of Trustees

Keating Ritchie, Thomas T. Keating, 5300 Socialville-Foster Road, Mason, Ohio 45040, for amicus curiae, The Ohio Township Association and the Coalition for Large Ohio Urban Townships

Maurice A. Thompson, Buckeye Institute, 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, 88 East Broad Street, Suite 1120, Columbus, Ohio 43215, amicus curiae for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard Cordray, Ohio Attorney General, 30 East Broad Street, 17th Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215.


OPINION

POWELL, P.J.

{¶1} Plaintiffs-appellants, The Drees Company, Fischer Single Family Homes II, LLC, John Henry Homes, Inc., Charleston Signature Homes, LLC, and the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati (collectively, Builders), appeal from the decision of the Warren County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees, Hamilton Township, Ohio, Hamilton Township Board of Trustees, Becky...

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