Dallas Court Rejects Developer Billingsley’s Carrollton Airport Efforts

The Dallas Court of Appeals has rejected a complex legal effort by real estate developer Henry Billingsley to shut down a residential air park community in Collin County so that he could turn the airport and its land into a shopping and office center.

Justice Michael O’Neil, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, ruled that Carrollton city officials, with the help of Billingsley and his business associates, passed an unconstitutional ordinance in 2008 in an elaborate attempt to improperly evict homeowners of the Air Park Estates in order to develop the land for more profitable purposes.