The commercial recreational district is established for the purpose of reserving needed and desirable lands for public recreation as well as for public and commercial amusement purposes. Such area would serve large numbers of people and would require access to major highways and adequate off-street parking. The regulations of this district are intended to conserve open space and natural amenities such as lakes, streams, and shorelines, pronounced topography, woodlands, certain wetlands, floodplains and other natural features; to allow and regulate public and private use of such areas for recreational enjoyment; and to regulate the use, improvement and development of such lands so as to safeguard their natural amenities from undesirable influences.

1.

Public uses such as: parks, beaches and swimming pools, golf courses, playgrounds and playfields, natural open spaces, and publicly owned conservation land and parks.

2.

Private recreation such as: country clubs, beaches and swimming pools, golf courses including par 3, golf driving ranges, riding academies, winter sports facilities including skiing, ice skating and tobogganing, gun clubs, marinas and boat liveries, and similar uses.

1.

Uses customarily incidental to the permitted principal uses.

2.

Residential dwellings, subject to R-1 regulations, exclusively for the owner, operator, watchman or other staff members of an operation, the intent being to exclude residential use and development other than necessary for and directly connected with conducting the permitted principal use.

The following uses shall be permitted only after special approval is granted by the planning commission in accordance with the procedures, requirements and standards set forth in this section and in Article 30, and subject to any conditions imposed by the planning commission:

1.

State-licensed summer camps for overnight occupancy between May 30 and September 30 with only incidental and temporary occupancy at other times of the year.

2.

Such food stands as the municipality or private enterprise chooses to install in the development subject to approval by the Addison Township Planning Commission.

3.

Publicly owned buildings and/or public utilities including but not limited to telephone exchanges, transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations when necessary to serve the immediate vicinity. No outside storage is permitted.

4.

Campgrounds, travel trailer parks.

a.

Minimum lot size shall be three (3) acres. The lot shall provide direct vehicular access to a public street or road. The term "lot" shall mean the entire campground or travel trailer park. Each lot shall be provided with at least one (1) public telephone.

b.

Each site on a lot designated for camping use may accommodate a travel trailer or tent, and shall be provided with individual electrical outlets.

c.

Public stations, housed in all-weather structures, containing adequate water outlet, flush toilets, waste container, electricity, and shower facilities, shall be provided uniformly throughout the lot at a ratio of not less than one (1) such station per each twenty (20) sites. Minimum size of any such structure shall be five hundred (500) square feet.

d.

Each lot containing more than sixty (60) sites shall provide a masonry building containing machine laundry (wash and dry) facilities.

e.

No commercial enterprises shall be permitted to operate on the lot, except that a convenience goods shopping building may be provided on a lot containing more than eighty (80) sites. Said building shall provide off-street parking as provided for in Article 26 of this ordinance.

f.

Each lot shall provide a hard-surfaced, dustfree vehicle parking area for the occupants and guest parking. Such parking shall be located within four hundred (400) feet of the site it is intended to serve (except in the case of sites specifically designed only for tent camping).

Guest parking shall be provided at the ratio of not less than one (1) space per each two (2) sites. Occupant parking space for two (2) vehicles shall be provided on each site.

g.

Each site shall contain a minimum of one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet, except that the minimum size for sites specifically designated for tents shall be three thousand (3,000) square feet. Each site shall be set back from any right-of-way or property line at least seventy-five (75) feet.

h.

A common use area shall be provided on each lot at a ratio of not less than one thousand (1,000) square feet of such area per each site. This common area shall be developed by seeding, landscaping, picnic tables, barbecue stands and passive recreation equipment (i.e., swings, horseshoe pits, shuffleboard courts) for the general use of all occupants of the entire lot.

i.

Each travel trailer site shall have direct access to a dustfree roadway of at least twenty-four (24) feet in width for two (2) way traffic and twelve (12) feet in width for one (1) way traffic. Parking shall not be allowed on any roadway. Sites specifically designated for, and only used for tent camping, need not have direct vehicular access to any street or road, but shall be provided with adequately cleared and marked pedestrian pathway access which originates at a point on a street or road within two hundred (200) feet of the parking area mentioned in Paragraph [4.]f.

j.

Any manmade open drainageways must have seeded banks sloped at least three to one (3:1) and designed to properly drain all surface waters.

k.

All sanitary facilities shall be designed and constructed in strict conformance to all applicable Oakland County health regulations.

l.

The development of the entire lot is subject to all applicable requirements of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

m.

Fences and greenbelts may be required by the planning commission. The location of common use areas, roadways, streets and buildings shall be subject to approval by the planning commission.

5.

Marinas and boat liveries.

a.

The planning commission may require landscaping of immediate effect, including evergreens or similar plant material not less than four (4) feet in height, to mitigate potential negative visual impacts on adjacent properties.

b.

The commission may require additional on-site parking for each slip or mooring space including additional parking space lengths to accommodate boat trailers and related equipment.

c.

Repair of dismantled equipment including, but not limited to, boats and motors, and storage of boats, boat parts, racks, lumber, and marine-related equipment must be in a completely enclosed building when not in water.

d.

Hours of operation may be limited by the planning commission to avoid negative impacts of noise and glare, if the use is located adjacent to residentially zoned property.

e.

A permit to erect, maintain or operate a marina shall be secured from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with any approval.

1.

Minimum lot size: One (1) acre.

2.

Minimum lot width: One hundred fifty (150) feet.

3.

Minimum yards (setbacks):

Front: Forty (40) feet.

Sides: Each twenty (20) feet.

Rear: Forty (40) feet.

4.

Maximum height: Two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet.

5.

Screening: Those sides of a lot or parcel which abut any other zoning district shall be provided with a fence or wall with a minimum height of six (6) feet, and a landscaped greenbelt, in accordance with Section 4.36.

6.

Other major regulations applicable to this district can be found in Article 4, General Provisions, including the wall requirements of Section 4.25, and Article 26, Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations.

7.

All structures shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from all natural feature areas as defined in Article 2 of this ordinance. For site plan applications which require planning commission approval, this setback may be reduced by the planning commission. Individual requests for reduction of the setback may only be granted as a variance from the township zoning board of appeals. Both bodies, in approving a reduction in the setback, shall determine that it is clearly in the public interest. In determining whether the setback reduction is in public interest, the benefit which would reasonably be expected to accrue from the proposed development shall be balanced against the reasonably foreseeable detriments to the natural features. Docks, piers, decks, boardwalks, or seawalls may be located within the natural feature setback.

In accordance with Article 29, site plan approval shall be required for all principal and special approval uses in this district.

An environmental impact study may be required by the planning commission or the township board as part of any required site plan review and subject to the provisions of Section 4.45, Environmental impact statement requirements.