West Bloomfield Charter Township v. Karchon

This case arises from plaintiffs enforcement of its woodlands ordinance and defendants’ constitutional challenge to that ordinance and its subsequently amended version. The parties recognize that both the original and the amended ordinances are at issue in this case. The trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary disposition on the basis that the ordinances were unconstitutionally vague, overbroad, and lacking in defi nite standards. Plaintiff appeals as of right from that order. We affirm.

Concerned about the depletion of the township’s forested areas, plaintiff adopted a…