Case ID: mich-app_15/html/0543-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SHACKET v. TOWNSHIP OF HIGHLAND
    Municipal Corporations — Zoning—Effectiveness of Ordinance— Writ of Mandamus.
    Trial court’s grant to plaintiff of a writ of mandamus requiring defendants to issue plaintiff a building permit for the construction of a trailer park without the taking of testimony on the ground that as a matter of law the zoning ordinance of defendant barred trailer parks completely and therefore was invalid on its face held error; sueh an ordinance is invalid only if unreasonable, and it is impossible to determine reasonableness without evidence.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    58 Am Jur, Zoning § 235 et seq.
    
    Appeal from Oakland, Beer (William John), J.
    Submitted Division 2 January 8, 1969, at Lansing.
    (Docket No. 5,089.)
    Decided January 29, 1969.
    Rehearing granted April 1, 1969.
    Complaint by Maurice Shacket against the township of Highland, a municipal corporation, the township planning board and Harold Kinney, building inspector of Highland Township, for a writ of mandamus requiring defendant to issue plaintiff a building permit. Writ granted. Defendants appeal.
    Reversed and remanded.
    
      Harry H. Mead, for plaintiff.
    
      Dudley é Patterson, for defendants.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant appeals from the trial court’s grant to plaintiff of a writ of mandamus requiring defendant to issue a building permit to plaintiff for development and construction of a mobile home park on plaintiff’s land. The writ was granted peremptorily without the taking of testimony on the basis that as a matter of law the ordinance of defendant barred trailer parks completely from defendant township and was invalid on its face.

This ruling was erroneous. West Bloomfield Township v. Chapman (1958), 351 Mich 606; June v. City of Lincoln Park (1960), 361 Mich 95. The ordinance prohibition of trailer parks from defendant township may or may not be valid, depending on whether such a prohibition, as it relates to plaintiff’s land, is reasonable or unreasonable. This determination is impossible without evidence.

Reversed and remanded for trial, without costs.

Quinn, P. J., and McGregor and Y. J. Brennan, JJ., concurred.