Plum Hollow Golf & Country Club v. Township of Southfield

Plaintiff is the owner of land in South-field township, Oakland county, Michigan, on which it maintains a country club and operates a golf course. On the south portion of the property is a depression which the trial court determined, on the basis of somewhat conflicting testimony, to be approximately 200 feet in width by 700 feet in length and from 15 to 20 feet in depth. In 1946 defendant township adopted a zoning ordinance by which plaintiff’s land in question here was restricted to use for residential purposes. Chapter 8, section 2:F, of the ordinance authorizes the zoning board of…