POLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 66294, (Calendar No. 7).

410 Mich. 616 (1981)

POLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL v. CITY OF DETROIT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 13, 1981.

Dissenting opinion April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reosti & Papakhian for plaintiffs.

Sylvester Delaney, Acting Corporation Counsel, by Joseph N. Baltimore, and Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, by Jason L. Honigman, William G. Christopher, and Norman C. Ankers, Special Counsel, for the City of Detroit.

Lewis, White, Clay & Graves, P.C., by David Baker Lewis, Eric L. Clay, and Victoria A. Roberts, General Counsel, for the Detroit Economic Development Corporation.


Dissenting opinion of Justice Ryan filed April 20, 1981.

PER CURIAM:

This case arises out of a plan by the Detroit Economic Development Corporation to acquire, by condemnation if necessary, a large tract of land to be conveyed to General Motors Corporation as a site for construction of an assembly plant. The plaintiffs, a neighborhood association and several individual residents of the affected area, brought suit in Wayne Circuit Court to challenge the project...

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