Cardinale v. Ottawa Regional Planning Commission

Sherck, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Ottawa County Court of Common Pleas which refused to stay the expiration date of a conditional plat approval granted by the county’s regional planning commission to a developer. Because we find the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for a preliminary injunction which sought to preserve the status quo pending a trial on the merits, we reverse.

Appellant, Baycliffs Corporation, seeks to develop residential housing on property it owns on Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay near Lake Erie. In October 1990, appellant submitted a…