EDWARD ROSE BLDG CO. v. INDEPENDENCE TWP.

Docket No. 82572, (Calendar No. 5).

436 Mich. 620 (1990)

462 N.W.2d 325

EDWARD ROSE BUILDING COMPANY v. INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (by Charles H. Tobias, Thomas J. Beale, and Ralph R. McKee) for the petitioner-appellant.

Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Clark & Hampton (by Gerald A. Fisher) for the respondent-appellee.

Amici Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Richard R. Roesch and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorneys General.

Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey (by Eric J. Thorsen and Robert J. Christians) for Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by Samuel J. McKim, III, P.C., and Joanne B. Faycurry) for Michigan Municipal League.

Bauckham, Reed, Sparks, Rolfe & Thomsen, P.C. (by Patricia R. Mason and John H. Bauckham), for Michigan Townships Association.


GRIFFIN, J.

We are called upon to review a determination by the Michigan Tax Tribunal of the true cash value of certain real property owned by the petitioner, a developer. The central issue is whether a group of vacant improved subdivision lots owned by petitioner can be valued utilizing a wholesale discount, resulting in a lower assessed valuation than if each lot had been individually owned. Under the circumstances presented in this

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