BACKGROUND:
It is common for staff, planning commissioners, township leadership, and outside interests to identify specific zoning language and other clarifications that require further discussion and potential amendments to the Zoning Ordinance. Based on items that have been raised in the enforcement of the existing Ordinance regulations, the following amendments are proposed.
We did this in three parts with the Planning Commission. Ideally, each round of amendments would be brought to the Board for consideration immediately after the Planning Commission makes a recommendation; however due to a timing issue between the Planning Commission’s consideration of the first round of amendments in late 2018, and the second round of amendments in late 2019, we delayed forwarding the amendments to the Board. The Planning Commission held public hearings for all three parts and voted unanimously each time to forward the draft language to the Township Board.
For ease of review by the Board, we have provided a detailed amendment memo. In the detailed memo, we’ve provided: 1) the ordinance section number, page number, and existing ordinance language; 2) details outlining the proposed text amendment and explanation as to why the amendment is warranted; and 3) proposed amended language. Removed text is struckthrough and proposed new text is underlined.