Union Township City Zoning Code
§ 30-7.1
General Regulations.
[Ord. No. 85-9, § 700; Ord. No. 86-4, § 6; Ord. No. 87-13, § 2; Ord. No. 90-2, § 6; Ord. No. 96-16, § 3; Ord. No. 2001-8, §§ 7, 12, 14; Ord. No. 2003-13, § 1; Ord. No. 2003-14, § 1]
a.
Lot Area and Yard Required. The lot and yard regulations for any new buildings or use shall not include any part of a lot that is required by any other building or use to comply with the requirements of this chapter.
No required lot or area shall include any property, the ownership of which has been transferred subsequent to the effective date of this chapter,[1] if such property was a part of the area required for compliance with the dimensional regulations applicable to the lot from which such transfer was made.
[1]
Editor's Note: This chapter was established by Ordinance No. 85-9 which was adopted on December 11, 1985 and became effective pursuant to law.
b.
Minimum Lot Size. Where a minimum lot size is specified, no primary building or use shall be erected or established on any lot of lesser size than as specified within this chapter, except as specified in Subsection c below.
c.
Exceptions to Minimum Lot Size.
1.
All residential lots resulting from a conventional subdivision shall include a minimum of 30,000 square feet of land not including resource protection land, or a minimum of 30,000 square feet of allowable disturbable resource protection land as provided for in § 30-6.4b. The required 30,000 square feet does not have to be solely located within the building envelope, but should be sufficient in size to allow for the construction of a dwelling unit. For the purposes of this subsection, the performance protection standards regarding woodlands does not apply. All buildings and on lot sewage disposal systems shall be located within the areas without resource restrictions.
2.
Any lot, including contiguous lots, existing at the effective date of adoption or amendment of this chapter,[2] whose area or dimensions met the requirements of the district in which the lot was located prior to adoption of this chapter or amendment of this chapter and which does not meet such requirements of this chapter, may have a building permit issued for a use permitted for that zoning district provided that the building coverage limit is not exceeded, parking requirements are met and the yard and height provisions are reduced by the same percentage that the area of such lot bears to the zoning district requirements except that no side yard shall be less than half that required by this chapter or five feet, whichever is greater.
[2]
Editor's Note: This chapter was established by Ordinance No. 85-9 which was adopted on December 11, 1985 and became effective pursuant to law. The effective dates of any amendments may be found in the office of the Township Clerk.
3.
This exception shall not apply to any two or more contiguous lots in a single ownership as of or subsequent to the effective date of this chapter,[3] or the effective date of amendment to this chapter, in any case where a reparceling or replatting could create one or more lots which would conform to this chapter.
[3]
Editor's Note: This chapter was established by Ordinance No. 85-9 which was adopted on December 11, 1985 and became effective pursuant to law. The effective dates of any amendments may be found in the office of the Township Clerk.
d.
Minimum Lot Width. Where a minimum lot width is specified, no primary building shall be erected on any part of a lot which has a width less than that specified within this chapter, except as specified in Subsection c above.
e.
Yard Requirements. In all districts except OR Office Research and LI Light Industrial Districts, no portion of a building or structure shall be built within the minimum depth of front, side, or rear yards as specified within this chapter except as permitted in the municipal subdivision and site plan regulations and as provided in the following:
1.
Parking areas shall not be permitted within required front yards nor within 10 feet of the side and/or rear property lines in the OR Office Research and LI Light Industrial Districts.
2.
Front Yard Exceptions for Existing Alignment. If the alignment of existing buildings on either side of a lot within a distance of 100 feet of the proposed building and fronting on the same side of the same street in the same block is nearer to the street than the required front yard depth, the planning board may accept the average of such existing alignment within that distance as the required front yard.
3.
Projections into Yards. An arbor, open trellis, flagpole, unroofed steps or ground level terrace shall be permitted as projections into yards with no restriction.
f.
Height. The height of structures is regulated to prevent loss of life or excessive property damage through the inability of fire equipment to reach upper stories or roofs.
The height limitations specified in this chapter shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, and domes not intended for human occupancy; monuments, observation towers, transmission towers, windmills, chimneys, smokestacks, flagpoles, radio and television towers, masts, and aerials, except as herein specified. No such object shall exceed 75 feet except where the shortest distance from the base of the object to the nearest property line shall be greater than 75 feet. In such cases the object may be equal to, but shall not exceed, that distance in height.
g.
Visibility at Intersections. No sign shall be placed in such a position that it will cause danger to traffic on a street or entering a street by obscuring the view, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of an official traffic control device.
h.
In no case shall there be more than one single family dwelling permitted on a subdivision lot of record. More than one principal nonresidential use or structure may be permitted on a single lot provided that the buildings are all part of an overall planned development containing only those uses permitted in the zoning district in which the development is located.
i.
Maximum Building Coverage, Residential Lots. On all lots with net buildable area less than or equal to 10,000 square feet, or a total lot area of less than 1 1/2 acres, where the primary use is B1 Single-Family Detached or B11 Single-Family Detached Cluster, the maximum permitted building coverage for primary and all accessory buildings shall be 30% of the net buildable area, or 3,500 square feet, whichever is less.