WARREN — At a special meeting on Nov. 5, Warren City Council members voted to bring in outside firm Plunkett-Cooney to defend the city against a lawsuit filed by the Michigan Manufactured Homes Association.

The complaint was filed by Jason Hanselmann and Kyle Asher of the Lansing-based Dykema Gossett PLLC on behalf of the association in October.

The complaint, which names the city, Building Director Kirk Rehn and Building Inspector John Impellizzeri as defendants, is challenging city procedures with regard to code enforcement at manufactured home parks.

“It’s a very lengthy lawsuit, it’s multifaceted, extremely complicated because of all the loaded legal issues, our permitting process, which code should be enforced, grandfathering issues, not-performing-status issues,” City Council Secr

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