People
Land Use and Zoning Matters
- Represented Fortune 500 companies including multiple fast food restaurants and oil companies in appearances before Planning Commissions, City Councils, Township Boards and Board of Zoning Appeals in obtaining re-zonings, site plan approvals and variances to permit the development of restaurants and gas stations.
- Represented national restaurant chain in proceedings before the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Design Board involving claims that restaurant bathroom facilities were not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and State Handicap Civil Rights Act.
- Represented national fast food chain in proceedings before the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in order to obtain construction approval to locate a new restaurant in a 100 year flood plain.
- Represented national fast food chain in condemnation proceedings involving municipal road widening projects.
- Represented restaurant property owner in dispute with adjoining property owner involving use restrictions which could limit development for a competing restaurant use.
- Represented restaurant property owner in dispute with national big box retail developer in claims involving big box retailers’ attempts to limit access to the restaurant property during demolition/reconstruction of the adjoining big box shopping center site.
- Represented national restaurant chain in defending litigation brought by adjoining property owners alleging that the proposed restaurant development on a shopping center out parcel resulted in an overburdening of the easement involving a shared driveway.
- Represented restaurant property owner in dispute with adjoining property owner involving cross access and cross parking agreement rights.
- Represented property owners in obtaining revisions to private subdivision deed restrictions which otherwise limited the use of the property to residential use.
- Represented property owners in vacating “paper” streets and public alleyways in order to permit development of the clients’ property.
- Represented property owners in boundary disputes involving disputed claims to property based upon adverse possession and/or prescriptive easement claims.
