Jaworski v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit

This is an appeal from a judgment of Wayne circuit court -which sustained a decision of city of Detroit board of zoning appeals granting defendant trustee permission to extend a nonconforming use on lots 43 and 44 of G-eorge Heintz’s subdivision. Appellants are property owners across the street from the land involved. Presently defendant trustee owns lots 42 through 46 of this subdivision; they are all contiguous. At the time the Detroit zoning ordinance went into effect, December 25, 1940, all of these lots were in a district zoned B 2 (residential), but a building suitable for manufacturing…