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Zoning Bulletin June 25, 2014 I Volume 8 I Issue 12 nition to Myers violated his constitutional rights, the court remanded the mat- ter to the district court for consideration of the merits of the City -Parish's peti- tion for injunctive relief. See also: Pfaff v. U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 88 F.3d 739 (9th Cir. 1996) (allowing a landlord to ask how many children a prospec- tive tenant will have living in the rental property, cis well as to limit the number of occupants that may live in the rental property). See also: Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, 416 U.S. 1, 94 S. Ct. 1536, 39 L. Ed. 2d 797, 6 Env't. Rep. Cas. (BNA) 1417, 4 Envtl. L. Rep. 20302 (1974) (finding a rational relationship between a zoning law's restrictive definition of `family" and a permissible state objectives of decreasing traffic and noise). Case Note: Myers had also asserted that the City -Parish UDC violated: freedom of association rights by prohibiting individuals from residing together unless they fall within certain classification; and equal protection rights by prohibiting foster children and nonadopted stepchildren without a living biological parent from residing with their re- spective foster parents and stepparents, while allowing an unlimited number of other individuals to reside with their distant relatives via blood, marriage, or adoption to reside together. The court found that Myers did not have standing (i.e., the legal right) to bring these claims because they complained of violations affected his tenants or prospective tenants, not him. Rezoning —City denies sin permit application Applicants allege denial violates their free speech rights as sign ordinance is unconstitutional under the First Amendment Citation: Neighborhood Enterprises, Inc. v. City of St. Louis, Mo., 2014 WL 1648842 (E.D. Mo. 2014) MISSOURI (04/24/14)—This case addressed the issue of whether a sign ordinance was unconstitutionally restrictive in violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Background/Facts: Neighborhood Enterprises, Inc. ("Neighbor- hood") was a property -management company that managed the properties of Sanctuary In The Ordinary ("SITO"), a nonprofit organization. Jim Roos ("Roos") founded SITO and Neighborhood. He was also the coordinator and spokesperson for the Missouri Eminent Domain Abuse Coalition ("MEDAC"), a civic organization concerned about eminent -domain practices. Roos and MEDAC, with tenant approval, commissioned a sign/mural for the side of a SITO-owned building in the City of St. Louis (the "City"). The 2014 Thomson Reuters 9