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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Phillips finds that the lower court properly in part ruled in a zoning dispute between El Paso County and a drug and alcohol recovery center operator. The recovery center alleges that the county's strict occupancy limits and standards for group homes forced them to close their home. Though the county did violate the 1988 Fair Housing Act Amendments by imposing limits on group homes for disabled people without justification, the center has not shown standing to challenge other county standards because there's no evidence the county actually enforced them. The matter is also remanded due to an improper summary judgment ruling against the center's claim for intentional discrimination, as it showed evidence the county was preventing it from carrying out certain therapies while at the same time allowing other homes to do them. Affirmed in part.