Clinton Township City Zoning Code
SPECIFICATIONS H
UNIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN
§ 152.290 RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
(A) The owner or owners of any tract of land, comprising an area of not less than ten acres, may submit to the Common Council, a plan for the use and development of the land, primarily for residential purposes. The proposed development plans shall be submitted to the City Plan Commission for examination, study and report and for a public hearing in conformance with the recommendations of the City Plan Commission shall be embodied in a report to the Common Council, stating the reasons for the approval or disapproval of the plan and application, and specific evidence and facts showing that the proposed residential development plan has or has not considered and made provision for the following essential elements:
(1) The appropriate use of property adjacent to the area included in the plan will be fully safeguarded;
(2) The plan is consistent with the intent of this chapter to promote public health, safety and general welfare;
(3) The buildings shall be used primarily for single-family dwellings, apartments or group houses, and the usual accessory uses such as garages, storage space and community activities; and
(4) The area of the tract, excluding street area, but including the area to be devoted to parks, parkways and other open spaces, will provide the minimum lot area per family, counting all families to be housed under the Unit Development Plan, which is required for the most intensive use normally permitted in the district in which such development is to be located.
(B) If the Common Council approves the proposed Residential Development Plan, improvement location permits and certificates of occupancy shall be issued, even though the use of the land, the location of the buildings to be erected in the area and the yards and open spaces provided in the plan do not conform in certain respects to the regulations for the district in which the development is to be located.
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§ 152.291 COMMUNITY SHOPPING CENTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
(A) The owner or owners of any tract of land, comprising an area of not less than four acres, may submit in a similar manner, a development plan for a community shopping center, which shall be processed in the manner prescribed in § 152.290(A). The plan, together with the recommendations of the City Plan Commission shall be embodied in a report to the Common Council, stating the reason for the approval or disapproval of the plan and application, and specific evidence and facts showing that the proposed community shopping center development plan has or has not considered and made provision for the following essential elements:
(1) The commercial uses included in the plan are limited to those permitted in the B1 District;
(2) The entire Development is designed as a single architectural unit with appropriate landscape architectural treatment of the entire unit area;
(3) That at least twice the gross floor area of the stores to be included within the development plus one vehicle parking space for each six seats in any theater or place of congregation included within the parts of the design of the unit plan;
(4) The appropriate use of property adjacent to the area included in the plan will be fully safeguarded; and
(5) The plan is consistent with the intent of this chapter to promote the public health, safety and general welfare.
(B) If the Common Council approves the proposed development for a community shopping center, improvement location permits and certificates of occupancy shall be issued as prescribed in § 152.290(B).
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§ 152.292 GROUPS OF SMALL HOUSES.
(A) Where it is proposed in the S Suburban District to erect groups of ten or more dwellings, the minimum ground floor areas of any of which are less than 576 square feet, a development plan may be submitted and processed in the manner prescribed in § 152.290(A) and may be approved if the report of the City Plan Commission shows that:
(1) The appropriate use of property adjacent to the area included in the plan will be fully safeguarded;
(2) Adequate sanitary facilities are provided; and
(3) The plan is consistent with the intent of this chapter to promote public health, safety and general welfare.
(B) If the Common Council approves the proposed development plan, building permits and use and occupancy permits shall be issued as prescribed in § 152.290(B).
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§ 152.999 PENALTY.
Any person or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall alter the use of land or build, reconstruct or structurally alter any building without first securing an improvement location permit, or who shall build, reconstruct or structurally alter any building in violation of any detailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder, or who shall occupy such altered land use or new or structurally altered building prior to securing a certificate of occupancy, shall, for each and every violation or noncompliance, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $10 and not more than $300.
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