PARR v. LANSING CITY CLERK

Docket No. 4,194.

9 Mich. App. 719 (1968)

158 N.W.2d 35

PARR v. LANSING CITY CLERK.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farhat, Burns, Treleaven & Luoma, for plaintiff.

Michael F. Cavanagh, City Attorney, and William E. Rheaume, Assistant City Attorney, for defendant.

Charles W. White, for intervening defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Poverlene Irons, Betty Swaynie, League of Women Voters of the Lansing Area, Greater Lansing Urban League, Inc., Council of Churches of the Greater Lansing Area, Greater Lansing Inter-Faith Council on Religion and Race, Ministerial Council of the Lansing Area, Martin de Porres Housing Committee, Cristo Rey Community Center, Catholic Pastors of Lansing: Rev. James J. O'Meara, Msgr. Michael J. Mleko, Rev. John F. Weber, Rev. Angelus La Fleur, O.F.M., Msgr. Walter E. Mehm, Rev. Francis T. Martin, Rev. Robert Palmer, Msgr. Jerome V. MacEachin, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, by Reid, Hildebrandt, King, Weed, Smith, & Brown, and Dunnings & Gibson.

Greater Lansing Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., by Douglas L. Sweet.


McGREGOR, J.

On May 8, 1967, the Lansing city council adopted, by what it labelled a resolution, the recommendation of its committee on planning that a 44-acre tract be approved for a so-called "community unit plan", pursuant to section 36-7 of the Lansing city code. This reclassification or rezoning of the subject tract was for the purpose of effectuating development of public or quasi-public housing on the tract. For...

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