Rofe v. Robinson

Defendants appeal as of right from the trial court’s permanent injunctive order restraining them from erecting an office building upon their property in Hickory Knolls subdivision, Bloomfield Township, Oakland County.

The deed restrictions pertaining to defendants’ property require that the land be restricted to residential use only. However, in 1968 the lots in Hickory Knolls subdivision that bordered on Telegraph Road, which includes defendants’ property, were rezoned to an "0-1” zoning classification. That classification prohibits residential construction and allows only the construction of…