Parr v. Lansing City Clerk

On May 8, 1967, the Lansing city council adopted, by what it labelled a resolution, the recommendation of its committee on planning that a 44-acre tract be approved for a so-called “community unit plan”, pursuant to section 36-7 of the Lansing city code. This reclassification or rezoning of the subject tract was for the purpose of effectuating development of public or quasi-public housing on the tract. For reasons that need only be their own, certain groups and individuals undertook a petition drive to submit this particular reclassification to a referendum vote of the electorate, in accord…