Guy v. Brandon Township

After conducting a bench trial and a posttrial hearing pursuant to Ed Zaagman, Inc v Kentwood, 406 Mich 137; 277 NW2d 475 (1979), the trial court entered a judgment invalidating defendant township’s zoning ordinance requiring a minimum area for each lot of 2 Vi acres and approving the township’s rezoning of plaintiffs’ land to single-family residential status with a one-acre minimum lot requirement. We affirm in part, but vacate the rezoned midsatisfactory use and reverse the trial court’s ruling that plaintiffs were not entitled to damages as a matter of law for a temporary taking.

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