Setbacks in Canton Township, MI

Front: 50 feet. Rear: 50 feet. Sides: 25 feet least, 50 feet total (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 50 feet. Rear: 50 feet. Sides: 25 feet least, 50 feet total (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 50 feet. Rear: 50 feet. Sides: 25 feet least, 50 feet total (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 40 feet. Rear: 50 feet. Sides: 20 feet least, 40 feet total (Section 26.02). For approved detached site condominium units the schedule substitutes 30 foot front and 40 foot rear setbacks with 25 feet between buildings (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 40 feet. Rear: 50 feet. Sides: 15 feet least, 35 feet total (Section 26.02). For approved detached condominium and 2-unit condominium projects the schedule substitutes 30 foot front and 40 foot rear setbacks with 20 feet between buildings (Section 26.02). A side-entry garage plan approved under footnote m can reduce one side yard to 5 feet with 30 feet combined (Section 26.02, footnote m).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 30 feet. Rear: 40 feet. Sides: 10 feet least, 20 feet total (Section 26.02). For approved detached condominium and 2-unit condominium projects the schedule substitutes 25 foot front and 35 foot rear setbacks with 15 feet between buildings (Section 26.02). The footnote m side-entry garage option also applies on 85 foot lots (Section 26.02, footnote m).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 25 feet. Rear: 35 feet. Sides: 5 feet least, 15 feet total, and at least one side yard must be 10 feet (Section 26.02, footnote h). For approved detached condominium and 2-unit condominium projects the schedule substitutes 20 foot front setbacks with 10 feet between buildings (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Front: 25 feet. Rear: 35 feet. Sides: 5 feet least, 15 feet total, and at least one side yard must be 10 feet (Section 26.02, footnote h). For approved detached condominium and 2-unit condominium projects the schedule substitutes 20 foot front setbacks with 10 feet between buildings (Section 26.02).

Where more than 60 percent of the houses on one side of the street in a block sit closer to the street than the required front setback, a new house must match the average of the existing front yards (Section 26.02, footnote i). Corner lots must keep a front yard along each street frontage (footnote g).

Projections (Section 2.09.A.3): eaves, bay windows, and similar features may extend 2 inches per foot of side yard width into a side yard and up to 24 inches into a front or rear yard. Open terraces, porches, and decks may occupy a required rear yard as long as 25 feet of unoccupied rear yard depth remains; an elevated deck over 4 feet above grade counts as an attached structure and must meet full setbacks.

Perimeter setbacks: front 50 feet, rear 60 feet, sides 60 feet each with 120 feet total (Section 26.02).

Inside a site, buildings must keep the Section 6.03.A.2 separations: 30 feet side to side and 80 feet rear to rear for 1 and 2 story buildings, 40 and 100 feet for 3 story buildings, and 60 feet side to rear, never less than 30 feet between any two buildings. No building may exceed 150 feet in length (Section 6.03.A.1).

Perimeter setbacks: front 50 feet, rear 60 feet, sides 60 feet each with 120 feet total (Section 26.02).

Building separation inside a site (Section 6.03.A.2): 30 feet side to side and 80 feet rear to rear for 1 and 2 story buildings, 40 and 100 feet for 3 story buildings, 60 feet side to rear, and never less than 30 feet between buildings. Buildings are capped at 150 feet in length (Section 6.03.A.1). Multiple-family developments need access to a road with a right-of-way over 60 feet (Section 6.03.A.4).

The schedule lists 20 foot front and 10 foot rear figures for RMH but defers to the mobile home park standards in Section 6.03.C (Section 26.02, footnote k). Site design, separations, and setbacks inside a park follow Section 6.03.C and the Michigan Mobile Home Commission rules under Public Act 96 of 1987; homes and structures must also stay 20 feet from park property lines (Section 6.03.C). Confirm any specific placement with Planning Services because the park-level standards control.

Front: 60 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet (Section 26.03). An isolated single-parcel C-1 district surrounded by other zoning may reduce the front setback to 30 feet if built in one phase and the setback stays landscaped open space (Section 26.03, footnote c).

Where any commercial or office development abuts residentially zoned land, the building setback grows to 60 feet, with the 30 feet closest to the boundary landscaped under Section 5.03.A.2 and parking allowed only in the outer 30 feet (Section 26.03, footnote e).

Front: 85 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet (Section 26.03). The isolated-parcel 30 foot front reduction of footnote c is available to C-2, and internal side setbacks between parcels in an integrated planned shopping center may be eliminated with recorded cross-access easements (Section 26.03, footnotes c, d).

Adjacent to residentially zoned land the building setback is 60 feet with a 30 foot landscaped buffer (Section 26.03, footnote e).

Front: 85 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet (Section 26.03). Internal side setbacks may be eliminated inside an integrated planned shopping center with recorded cross-access easements (Section 26.03, footnote d). Adjacent to residentially zoned land the building setback is 60 feet with a 30 foot landscaped buffer (Section 26.03, footnote e).

Front: 85 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet (Section 26.03). The planned-center internal setback elimination and the 60 foot residential-boundary setback with 30 foot landscaped buffer both apply (Section 26.03, footnotes d, e).

Front, side, and rear setbacks are each 85 feet (Section 26.05). Buildings must stay at least 100 feet from conforming residential structures in the R-1 through R-6 and MR districts, and that distance grows one foot for every foot of building height above 100 feet (Section 26.05, footnote d).

Front, side, and rear setbacks are each 85 feet (Section 26.05). Buildings must stay at least 100 feet from conforming residential structures in the R-1 through R-6 and MR districts, and that distance grows one foot for every foot of building height above 100 feet (Section 26.05, footnote d).

Front: 35 feet. Side: 15 feet. Rear: 30 feet (Section 26.03). Adjacent to residentially zoned land the building setback becomes 60 feet with a 30 foot landscaped buffer closest to the boundary (Section 26.03, footnote e).

Front: 50 feet. Sides: 25 feet least, 50 feet total. Rear: 50 feet (Section 26.04a). Off-street parking is barred from the required front yard (Section 26.04a, footnote c).

Where LI-R abuts land zoned agricultural or residential, a 100 foot setback applies with a 50 foot landscaped transition strip, and no buildings, parking, drives, or storage may occupy it unless a street or railroad provides the separation (Section 26.04a, footnote d; Section 21.03.A.8).

Front: 40 feet, or 25 feet on internal roads of a platted industrial park subdivision. Sides: 15 feet least, 40 feet total. Rear: 20 feet. Minimum lot width 60 feet, or 35 on an approved private road (Section 26.04, footnotes f, g).

Where the adjacent land is zoned agricultural or residential, a 40 foot landscaped setback applies with no buildings, loading, drives, storage, or parking in it (Section 26.04, footnote d). Parking is barred from front yards on roads with 100 foot or wider rights-of-way, and loading areas may never occupy a required front yard (Section 26.04, footnote c).

Front: 50 feet, or 25 feet on internal roads of a platted industrial park subdivision. Sides: 30 feet least, 60 feet total. Rear: 30 feet. Minimum lot width 60 feet (Section 26.04, footnotes f, g).

Where adjacent land is zoned agricultural or residential, a 40 foot landscaped setback applies with no buildings, loading, drives, storage, or parking (Section 26.04, footnote d). Outside storage areas must stay at least 150 feet from any street right-of-way and meet building setbacks (Section 23.03.A).

Where an OSP lot abuts a residentially zoned district on a side or rear line, a 6 foot masonry wall is required under Section 5.08 (Section 24.03.A.1). Where it shares road frontage with a residential district, the front setback is the residential district's front setback or 25 feet, whichever is greater, with a landscaped berm screening the parking (Section 24.03.A.2). The schedule lists a 60 foot minimum lot dimension for OSP (Section 26.05).

Front: 40 feet. Side: 20 feet. Rear: 50 feet, with a 2 story, 35 foot height cap (Section 26.05). Township-wide, no structure, septic field, or earthwork may come within 25 feet of a regulated wetland, and watercourse buffers run 25 feet, or 75 feet along the Rouge River (Section 2.24).