Department of Transportation v. Rossi

Respondents are fee simple owners of approximately 123.02 acres of land located in White Lake Township, Oakland County. On February 27, 1980, petitioner Michigan Department of Transportation filed a petition in circuit court seeking to condemn, for the purpose of improving M-59 in Oakland County, the entire frontage of respondents’ property along M-59 to a depth of 150 feet, constituting approximately 9.55 acres of the entire parcel.

The character of respondents’ property is unchanged in that petitioner has not acquired or *89extinguished respondents’ rights of access to the remainder of the…