Fort Gratiot Township City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE I
- IN GENERAL
Sections
ARTICLE II
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT2
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- Sec. 38-41. - Zoning administrator.
- Sec. 38-42. - Zoning compliance permits.
- Sec. 38-43. - Certificate of occupancy.
- Sec. 38-44. - Special zoning orders book and map.
- Sec. 38-45. - Permit fees.
- Sec. 38-46. - Site plan review.
- Sec. 38-47. - Performance guarantees.
- Sec. 38-48. - Requirements for single-family and two-family dwellings and farm buildings.
- Sec. 38-49. - Requirements for traffic impact studies.
- Sec. 38-50. - Enforcement, penalties and other remedies.
- DIVISION 2. - ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS[3]
ARTICLE III
DISTRICT REGULATIONS
Sections
- DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
- DIVISION 2. - AG AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 3. - R-1A, R-1B AND R-2, SINGLE AND TWO FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS[4]
- Sec. 38-171. - Statement of purpose.
- Sec. 38-172. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 38-173. - Special approval uses.
- Sec. 38-174. - Area, height and placement requirements.
- Sec. 38-175. - Exceptions.
- Sec. 38-176. - Statement of purpose.
- Sec. 38-177. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 38-178. - Special approval uses.
- Sec. 38-179. - Area, height and placement requirements.
- DIVISION 4. - RM RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE-FAMILY DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 5. - MHR MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 6. - O-1 OFFICE DISTRICTS[5]
- DIVISION 7. - O-2 OFFICE MID-RISE DISTRICTS[6]
- DIVISION 8. - C-1 NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICTS[7]
- DIVISION 9. - C-2 GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS[8]
- DIVISION 10. - M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS[9]
- DIVISION 11. - M-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
- DIVISION 12. - SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT REGULATIONS
ARTICLE IV
SPECIAL LAND USES10
Sections
- Sec. 38-481.- Intent of article.
- Sec. 38-482. - Authority to grant permits.
- Sec. 38-483. - Application and fee.
- Sec. 38-484. - Data, exhibits and information required in application.
- Sec. 38-485. - Public hearing and notices.
- Sec. 38-486. - Required standards and findings for making determinations.
- Sec. 38-487. - Determination and imposition of conditions.
- Sec. 38-488. - Approval and grant of permit.
- Sec. 38-489. - Appeal to circuit court.
- Sec. 38-490. - Voiding of special approval use permit.
- Sec. 38-491. - Gas or electrical transmission lines.
- Sec. 38-492. - Outdoor theaters.
- Sec. 38-493. - Auto racetracks.
- Sec. 38-494. - Horse and dog racetracks.
- Sec. 38-495. - Lumber and building material dealers.
- Sec. 38-496. - Quarries.
- Sec. 38-497. - Junkyards, automobile salvage or wrecking yards, waste or scrap recycling operation and refuse transfer facilities.
- Sec. 38-498. - Sanitary landfills.
- Sec. 38-499. - Telephone exchange and static transformer stations, gas regulator stations, and other public utility buildings.
- Sec. 38-500. - Hotels and motels.
- Sec. 38-501. - Feedlots and raising of fur-bearing animals.
- Sec. 38-502. - Home occupations.
- Sec. 38-503. - Churches.
- Sec. 38-504. - Government buildings.
- Sec. 38-505. - Golf courses.
- Sec. 38-506. - Private recreational areas.
- Sec. 38-507. - Large scale outdoor recreational uses.
- Sec. 38-508. - Public or commercial stables, kennels and veterinary clinics.
- Sec. 38-509. - Nursery school, day nursery, and child care centers.
- Sec. 38-510. - Public and private colleges and universities.
- Sec. 38-511. - Orphanage, foster home, home for the aged, indigent, or physically or mentally handicapped.
- Sec. 38-512. - Boardinghouses and lodging-houses.
- Sec. 38-513. - Hospitals.
- Sec. 38-514. - Amusement and recreation services.
- Sec. 38-515. - Motor vehicle washing, conveyor or nonconveyor type.
- Sec. 38-516. - Gasoline service stations.
- Sec. 38-517. - Motor vehicle repair and service facilities.
- Sec. 38-518. - New automobile and truck agency sales and showrooms.
- Sec. 38-519. - Used automobile and truck sales.
- Sec. 38-520. - Drive-in, fast food, or carryout restaurant.
- Sec. 38-521. - Open-air display and sale of mobile homes, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, or other motor vehicles sales areas other than trucks, automobiles, and homeowners' gardening equipment.
- Sec. 38-522. - Special land use approval requirements.
- Sec. 38-523. - Gun clubs; shooting and archery ranges.
- Sec. 38-524. - Cemeteries.
- Sec. 38-525. - Airports.
- Sec. 38-526. - Single-family detached condominiums.
- Sec. 38-527. - Housing for elderly and persons with disabilities.
- Sec. 38-528. - Multi-family dwelling units in office and commercial districts.
- Sec. 38-529. - Pet care services.
ARTICLE VI
SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 38-601.- Scope.
- Sec. 38-602. - Accessory building in residential districts.
- Sec. 38-603. - Accessory farm building.
- Sec. 38-604. - Appearance.
- Sec. 38-605. - Establishing grades.
- Sec. 38-606. - Building to be moved.
- Sec. 38-607. - Conflicting regulations.
- Sec. 38-608. - Corner clearance.
- Sec. 38-609. - Corner lots.
- Sec. 38-610. - Excavations or holes.
- Sec. 38-611. - Exterior lighting.
- Sec. 38-612. - Fences, walls and other protective barriers.
- Sec. 38-613. - Frontage requirements.
- Sec. 38-614. - Greenbelts, obscuring walls and berms.
- Sec. 38-615. - Landscaping, screening, green-belts, buffers and fencing.
- Sec. 38-616. - Lot limitations.
- Sec. 38-617. - Lots, yards, and open spaces.
- Sec. 38-618. - Nonconforming lots, nonconforming uses of land, nonconforming structures and nonconforming characteristics of use.
- Sec. 38-619. - Off-street parking.
- Sec. 38-620. - Radio and television towers; wind energy conversion systems.
- Sec. 38-621. - Residential entranceway.
- Sec. 38-622. - Permitted area and placement.
- Sec. 38-623. - Permitted uses.
- Sec. 38-624. - Ponds.
- Sec. 38-625. - Porches, patios and terraces.
- Sec. 38-626. - Signs.
- Sec. 38-627. - Streets, alleys and railroad rights-of-way.
- Sec. 38-628. - Swimming pools.
- Sec. 38-629. - Parking and storage of recreational vehicles and equipment.
- Sec. 38-630. - Satellite dish antennae.
- Sec. 38-631. - High risk erosion area setbacks.
- Sec. 38-632. - Sidewalks along public streets.
- Sec. 38-633. - Access management.
- Sec. 38-634. - Performance standards.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
Sections
- Sec. 38-671.- Access through yards.
- Sec. 38-672. - Dwelling in nonresidential district.
- Sec. 38-673. - Essential services.
- Sec. 38-674. - Permitted height.
- Sec. 38-675. - Projections into yards.
- Sec. 38-676. - Voting place.
- Sec. 38-677. - Yard regulations.
- Sec. 38-678. - Lots having frontage on Lake Huron.
- Sec. 38-679. - Roadside sales.
- Sec. 38-680. - Temporary outdoor sales.
- Sec. 38-681. - Temporary retail area permits.