Square Lake Hills Condominium Ass'n v. Bloomfield Township

Bloomfield Township ordinance no. 397 regulates docking and launching of motorboats on the basis of the number of feet of lake frontage "owned” or "commonly owned.”1 The purpose, intent, and effect of the ordinance is to limit or bar altogether the use of lake frontage owned or commonly owned by "back-lot” owners, and has "the effect of zoning.”2 Such a regulation of docking and launching is 'an exercise of the zoning component of the police power, and is not a valid exercise of police power delegated by the Legislature to a local unit of government under a law, such as the township ordinance…