(a)   SP Special Purpose Districts are designed to accommodate specific uses which are generally compatible with single-family areas, but which, because of particular characteristics of size and/or use, should not be permitted in a Residential District without review and rezoning by the Township Board.

   (b)   The purpose of this District is to permit the use of land and/or buildings for specific purposes in order that a high degree of control over the use to be provided for can be maintained.

   (c)   The Special Purpose Districts are split into two subdistricts, SP- and SP-2. See Section 1286.02 for specific permitted uses related to each subdistrict.

(Ord. 260. Passed 7-9-79; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   (a)   In an SP-1 Special Purpose Senior Care Facilities District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for convalescent homes, nursing homes, rest homes, assisted care facilities or homes for the aged, subject to the following conditions:

      (1)   The site shall be developed so as to create a land-to-building ratio on the parcel whereby for each one bed in the principal use there shall be provided not less than 600 square feet of open space. The open space land area per bed shall provide landscaped setting, off-street parking, service drives, loading space, yard requirements and any space required for accessory uses. The 600 square foot requirement is in addition to the building coverage area.

      (2)   In an SP-1 Special Purpose Senior Care Facilities District, buildings shall not exceed three stories or 35 feet in height.

   (b)   In an SP-2 Special Purpose Hospitals District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for a hospital or clinic for human care.

   (c)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the principal uses permitted in the SP Districts shall also be permitted.

(Ord. 260. Passed 7-9-79; Ord. 260-A-33. Passed 9-8-81; Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. 260-A-399. Passed 10-4-04; Ord. 260-A-412. Passed 10-24-05; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

   (a)   All access to the site shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.

   (b)   Whenever the parking plan is designed so as to cause automobile headlights to be directed toward any Residential District within 100 feet of the parking areas, an obscuring wall, fence or berm may be required, as recommended by the Planning Commission and approved by the Township Board, along that entire side of the parking area.

   (c)   The lot area covered by all buildings shall not exceed thirty-five percent.

(Ord. 260. Passed 7-9-79.)

   (d)   For all parcels directly abutting a major thoroughfare, access to the parcel shall be from an internal marginal access road having a width of thirty feet and not directly from the abutting Clinton Township thoroughfare. The Township Board, upon recommendation from the Planning Commission, may waive this requirement if such marginal access road is impractical to construct or would serve no useful purpose. In granting such waiver, the Township Board may require easements to provide for vehicular access to existing or proposed adjacent parking lots in order to minimize the need for driveways to each facility and thereby decreasing hazards to vehicle traffic. In such instances, a reciprocal use agreement shall be signed by each owner in a form satisfactory to the Township Attorney and shall be recorded with the Macomb County Register of Deeds.

   (e)   Curb cuts for vehicular access to and from a marginal access road to and from the abutting major thoroughfare shall be no closer than 300 feet to each other.

(Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)

 

 

   FOOTNOTES TO SCHEDULE OF REGULATIONS CHART

   (a)   Modifications in height requirements above the 35 feet allowed within the district may be permitted subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.

   (b)   All required front yard setbacks shall be measured from the proposed right-of-way line of any abutting thoroughfare. In the instance of a corner lot or parcel of land abutting more than one public thoroughfare, all frontages shall require the minimum front yard setback specified in the district. Off-street parking shall be permitted to occupy a front yard setback in excess of the minimum setback of 25 feet.

   (c)   Off-street loading and unloading space shall be provided in the rear yard or an interior side yard, unless the side yard abuts a Residential District and shall, in no instance, be permitted in a front yard. In those instances where exterior side yards abut an Industrial District, loading and unloading may take place in the exterior side yard, except that in those instances where exterior side yards have a common relationship with an Industrial District across a public thoroughfare, loading and unloading may take place in the side yard when the setback is equal to at least 50 feet. Off-street loading space shall further meet the requirements of Section 1294. Where an alley exists or is provided at the rear of the buildings, the rear building setback and loading requirements may be computed from the centerline of such alley, but separately from the off-street parking requirements.

   (d)   The minimum distance between any two buildings shall be 20 feet. In no instance shall a building be located closer than 50 feet to a residentially-zoned district.

(Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)