Dive Brief:

• A Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge ordered 67-year-old McCormick Construction to relocate its sewer repair company from the home it has operated out of since 1946.
• The area around McCormick's Devonshire Street location is now the Devonshire Subdivision, and zoning laws no longer allow commercial companies, or what township attorneys call an "illegal junkyard," to operate there.
• The judge told Mike McCormcik and his family to vacate the property, which is also in foreclosure and owned by Deutsche Bank, by Nov. 30.

Dive Insight:

The judge's decision comes after a decade of complaints by neighbors. McCormick, for its part, claims that a long-ago decision by another Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge grandfathered the company into the Devonshire residential zone. Regardless, the property is in foreclosure, so it's hard to argue with that aspect of the decision.