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Developer Threatens to Annex 677 Acres for Multifamily Project

DETROIT-Milford Township refused to allow multifamily zoning, now Robertson says he'll just move the property into neighboring Wixom.

By Robert Carr | Updated on August 17, 2001

DETROIT-Developer Paul Robertson Jr., unhappy about not receiving zoning approval on 760 new multifamily condominium buildings and single-family homes on a former gravel pit, has sued Milford Township and is threatening annexation to neighboring Wixom unless he gets his way.

The Bloomfield Hills developer was denied a request to rezone the 677-acres east of Milford Road, between Maple Road and Pontiac Trail, from single family to multifamily last year. Since then, he and partner Joel Garrett have filed a lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court claiming the township’s three-acre-per-house zoning on the property takes away his rights to develop the land.

The developer has presented a plan that would place multifamily buildings on 100 of the acres, and single-family homes on the rest. The township Board of Trustees, Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals have all said Robertson should follow the master-plan zoning for the property, which has been set since the gravel pit was created and would only allow about 200 homes.

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