A church owns and occupies several lots within a subdivision in the Country Club District in Kansas City. When the church proposed the building of a new parking lot, the nonprofit association...

A church owns and occupies several lots within a subdivision in the Country Club District in Kansas City. When the church proposed the building of a new parking lot, the nonprofit association overseeing the Country Club District filed suit to enforce a restrictive covenant that precluded building on any lots for anything other than “private residence purposes.” The trial court ruled in favor of the association and the church appealed, claiming that circumstances had changed so as to make the restrictive covenant unenforceable. Was the church successful with its argument? Why or why not? Country Club District Homes Association v. Country Club Christian Church, 118 S.W.3d 185 (Mo. Ct. App. 2003).