SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL v. SAUGATUCK TP.

Nos. 160358-9.

983 N.W.2d 798 (2022)

509 Mich. 561

SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, Saugatuck Township Zoning Board of Appeals, and North Shores of Saugatuck, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 22, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olson, Bzdok & Howard, PC (by Scott W. Howard , Traverse City and Rebecca L. Millican ) for Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance.

Straub, Seaman & Allen, PC (by James M. Straub , St. Joseph and Sarah J. Hartman ) for Saugatuck Township and the Saugatuck Township Zoning Board of Appeals.

Gabrielse Law, PLC (by Carl J. Gabrielse , Holland) and Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, Grand Rapids (by Gaëtan Gerville-Réache and Ashley G. Chrysler ) for North Shores of Saugatuck, LLC.

Margrethe Kearney for the Environmental Law & Policy Center and the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, amici curiae.

McClelland & Anderson, LLP, Lansing (by Melissa A. Hagen and David E. Pierson ) for Michigan Realtors, amici curiae.

Rosati Schultz Joppich & Amtsbuechler PC, Farmington Hills (by Matthew J. Zalewski and Carol A. Rosati ) for the Michigan Municipal League.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH


OPINION

This case requires us to determine what it means to be aggrieved for purposes of appealing certain land-use decisions to a zoning board of appeals, MCL 125.3604(1), and appealing a zoning board of appeals' decision to the circuit court, MCL 125.3605. Appellant, Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance,1

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