Ettinger v. Avon Township

Plaintiff petitioned Avon Township to have an 80-acre parcel south of Avon Road near Livernois rezoned from single family to multi-family residential use. Upon the denial of said request, plaintiff commenced suit in circuit court to compel *531rezoning on the grounds that defendant’s zoning ordinance was unconstitutional as applied to the subject property. The lower court sustained the reasonableness of the zoning restriction, and plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff’s arguments one and two concern the proper standard of review in zoning ordinance cases. Plaintiff maintains that the correct standard is…