Gordon v. City of Warren Planning & Urban Renewal Commission

Plaintiffs own a 15-1/2 acre tract of land in the City of Warren. In 1967 the tract was zoned for multiple family dwellings. Plaintiffs desired to construct low-rise multiple dwellings and submitted a site plan to defendant planning and urban renewal commission in July 1968. The commission failed to approve the plan and plaintiffs commenced an action for writ of superintending control in the nature of mandamus.

Hearing was had before the trial court on January 13, 1969. Defendant asserted at the hearing that four of plaintiffs’ proposed buildings were situated too close to Mound Road because…