PITTSFIELD CHARTER TOWNSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
WASHTENAW COUNTY and City of Ann Arbor, Defendants-Appellees.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted February 6, 2001, at Lansing.
Decided June 15, 2001, at 9:00 a.m.
Released for Publication September 6, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Reading & Etter (by John L. Etter and Mark A. Reading), Ann Arbor, for Pittsfield Charter Township.
Curtis N. Hedger, Corporation Counsel, Ann Arbor and Bodman, Longley & Dahling, LLP (by Jerold Lax), Ann Arbor, for Washtenaw Counnty.
Office of the City Attorney (by Kristen D. Larcom, Assistant City Attorney), Ann Arbor, for the city of Ann Arbor.
Bauckham, Sparks, Rolfe, Lohrstorfer & Thall, P.C. (by John H. Bauckham and Robert E. Thall), Kalamazoo, amicus curiae for Michigan Townships Association.
Before HOLBROOK, JR., P.J., and McDONALD and SAAD, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.
SAAD, J.
I. Nature of the Case
This controversy presents a much-litigated but difficult question 1 of statutory interpretation: When is a governmental unit exempt from or subject to local zoning regulations? Here, Washtenaw County says that it has the statutory, plenary power to use its property, located in the county (and in Pittsfield Charter Township within the county), as it determines, immune from township zoning laws. For...
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