Engineered Housing Concepts, Inc v. Wayne County

This case involves the question whether defendants had authority to require that plaintiff pave the public road abutting plaintiff’s property as a prerequisite to approval of plaintiff’s preliminary plan for a mobile home park. Plaintiff appeals as of right from a Wayne Circuit Court order granting defendants’ motion for summary disposition and dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for a writ of mandamus. We reverse.

Plaintiff owns a thirty-five-acre parcel of land located at the southeast corner of South Huron Road and Clark Road in Huron Township, Wayne County. Plaintiff intended to develop this…