Art Yatsko has been working towards a dream for the last 20 years. Art lives in Rhode Island and dreams of escaping from the long, cold winters to warm and sunny North Port, Florida. And over these last 20 years Art has been making progress towards this dream—finding and then buying a plot of land in a neighborhood, saving money, and doing all his due diligence.
But just as Art was ready to begin construction, he was told he could no longer build a modest single-family home in his neighborhood—it had been rezoned, along with every other open lot of land in his neighborhood. Art should be free to build a home on his property that is just like the others in his neighborhood. With help from the Institute for Justice (IJ), he’s filed a lawsuit to stand up for the right to use his property in a manner fully consistent with its surrounding uses
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Art Yatsko is like a lot of Americans in their 60s. After decades of hard work and saving, he wants to slow down—to retire somewhere quiet, peaceful, and warm. He thought North Port, Florida, was…