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JESUS CENTER v. FARMINGTON HILLS

Docket No. 163536.

215 Mich. App. 54 (1996)

544 N.W.2d 698

THE JESUS CENTER v. FARMINGTON HILLS ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided January 12, 1996, at 9:25 A.M.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dykema Gossett (by Margaret A. Costello and Jeffrey S. Jones), for the petitioner.

Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Clark and Hampton (by John M. Donohue and Derk W. Beckerleg), for the respondent.

Before: BANDSTRA, P.J., and CAVANAGH and H.A. BEACH, JJ.

BANDSTRA, P.J.

This case presents an important question of first impression for Michigan's communities and churches: To what extent may a local government, through its zoning authority, limit a church from undertaking, in the name of religion, activities that have a negative effect on the church's neighbors?

Since 1984, petitioner, The Jesus Center, has been renting a two-story building at the corner of Inkster Road and Byron Street in the City of Farmington...

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