Court Opinion

ID: 9668527
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:17:23.24468+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:45.948704
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Edwards, J.
(concurring). I concur with Justice
Sharpe’s result.
“A zoning law, to be valid, must carry with it the necessary incidents to a proper exercise of the police power, and in this respect it has been held that the regulation of the development of a city under a comprehensive and carefully considered zoning plan tends to promote the general welfare of a community, and that the adoption and enforcement of such plan, when fairly conceived and equably applied, is within the scope of the police power.” 58 Am Jur, Zoning, § 27, p 957.
*319The record and the findings of the trial judge in this case show almost complete isolation of the instant property from other property residentially zoned or developed.' This fact would argue against the currently-considered zoning being a part of a general and comprehensive plan of community betterment.
I do not agree with my Brother’s citing the testimony of a real-estate dealer, “He would make a lot of money if he developed it for commercial purposes,” as in any way causally related to this result Our test of the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance is whether or not its adoption represents a reasonable use of the police power in promoting the health, morals, safety or general welfare of the community. Fass v. City of Highland Park, 321 Mich 156; Northwood Properties Company v. Royal Oak City Inspector, 325 Mich 419; Hitchman v. Township of Oakland, 329 Mich 331.