Troy Campus v. City of Troy

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the circuit court’s order upholding the validity of defendant’s single-family zoning classification of property owned by plaintiff. We find that plaintiff met its burden of proving that the zoning classification of plaintiff’s property does not reasonably advance any governmental interest and is therefore invalid. We accordingly reverse the judgment of the trial court.

Plaintiff is a general co-partnership created for the purpose of developing low-rise medical and professional office buildings on the subject property. The subject property is a 17.6-acre…