Karpenko v. City of Southfield

The issue is whether the notice provisions of the zoning enabling act, MCLA 125.584; MSA 5.2934, are unconstitutional as viola-tive of due process and equal protection.

Plaintiffs brought this action on June 28, 1976 seeking damages and to restrain defendants from constructing a nine-story dormitory on land of defendant Lawrence Institute of Technology. Plaintiffs asked the trial court to find unconstitutional a certain Southfield zoning ordinance amendment which rezoned the property in question from single family residential to educational, research and office. Plaintiffs also asked that…