Delta Charter Twp. v. Dinolfo

This case requires us to consider the constitutionality of a township zoning ordinance which limits the occupation of single-family *257residences to an individual, or a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, and not more than one other unrelated person. We conclude that this ordinance, which prohibits the defendants from including in their households six unrelated persons, is unreasonable and arbitrary and, accordingly, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Michigan Constitution.

In July and September of 1977, the Sierawski and Dinolfo "families” moved into…