Special land uses in Macomb Township, MI

Special land uses in AG (Sec. 10.0403) include churches (2 acre minimum), schools (10 acres, 100 foot setback from residential lines), publicly owned buildings and parks, mushroom farms without composting, heliports, cemeteries (10 acres), colleges (15 acres), public stables and riding academies (40 acres, 2 acres per stabled horse), private kennels, commercial kennels (10 acres, 500 foot lot width), utility substations, migratory farm help in mobile homes, golf courses (60 acres for 9 holes, 120 for 18), parks (10 acres), bed and breakfasts (2 acres, up to 8 guest rooms, innkeeper occupies the residence, one 4 square foot sign), lumbering, and large-scale composting.

The district text points to Sec. 10.2401 for the review procedure, but the Special Land Use Permit Review Procedures were renumbered to Sec. 10.2402 by Ord. No. 10-67 in 2020: the Planning Commission decides after a public hearing with published notice and mailed notice to owners and occupants within 300 feet at least 15 days ahead.

All AG special land uses are available in R-1-S with the same conditions (Sec. 10.0503, referencing Sec. 10.0403): churches, schools, public buildings, cemeteries, day-care-scale institutions, bed and breakfasts, and the rest of the AG list. The Planning Commission decides them under the renumbered Special Land Use procedures at Sec. 10.2402, after a public hearing with 300 foot notice at least 15 days ahead.

R-1-E allows the AG special land uses except those tied to animals and resource extraction: mushroom farms, public stables, riding academies, hunt clubs, private and commercial kennels, migratory help in mobile homes, lumbering and clear-cutting, and composting are strictly prohibited (Sec. 10.0603). Churches, schools, public buildings, cemeteries, golf courses, parks, and bed and breakfasts remain available with the Sec. 10.0403 conditions, decided by the Planning Commission under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures.

R-1 allows the same special land uses as R-1-E (Sec. 10.0703): the AG institutional list of churches, schools, publicly owned buildings, cemeteries, colleges, utility substations, golf courses, parks, and bed and breakfasts, minus the animal and extraction uses prohibited by Sec. 10.0603. The Planning Commission decides after a public hearing under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures, with mailed notice to owners and occupants within 300 feet at least 15 days ahead.

Special land uses in R-2-L (Sec. 10.0803): home occupations, schools, churches, publicly owned buildings, heliports accessory to permitted activities, cemeteries, public utility uses without service yards, recreation areas and parks, and housing for older persons under Sec. 10.0352 (which the Township Board decides after a Planning Commission recommendation). Other special land uses are decided by the Planning Commission under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures.

R-2 allows all R-2-L special land uses plus housing for older persons under Sec. 10.0352 (Sec. 10.0903): home occupations, schools, churches, public buildings, heliports, cemeteries, utilities, and parks, decided by the Planning Commission under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures; housing for older persons is decided by the Township Board.

R-2-H allows the R-2 special land uses minus one excluded item, plus housing for older persons under Sec. 10.0352 (Sec. 10.1003). The exclusion as printed reads "10.0903C," an item that does not exist (Sec. 10.0903 stops at B); the district pattern points at the churches item of the R-2-L list (Sec. 10.0803.C), so churches are the likely excluded use; confirm with the township before relying on either reading. Decisions follow the Sec. 10.2402 hearing procedures; housing for older persons goes to the Township Board.

Special land uses in CF (Sec. 10.1203): general hospitals (10 acre site, 1,500 square feet of lot per bed, at least 50 beds, structures 75 feet from property lines, direct access to a 120 foot major thoroughfare), nursing and convalescent homes or hospices (5 acres, 1,000 square feet of lot per bed, state licensed), housing for older persons under Sec. 10.0352, and the R-2-L special land use list except its home occupation, school, and older-persons items. The Planning Commission decides under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures.

The O-1 special land use section adopts by reference the uses in Section 10.1203.D, which is the CF district's pass-through to the R-2-L special land use list (Sec. 10.1303). In practice this reaches institutional uses such as schools, churches, public buildings, cemeteries, utilities, and parks, each with its underlying conditions. The chained cross-references make edge cases genuinely uncertain, so confirm any specific proposal with the Planning Department. Decisions follow Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in O-2 (Sec. 10.1403): general hospitals, nursing and convalescent homes or hospices, restaurants incidental to the principal uses on the site, and the uses reached through the O-1 special land use section. The hospital and nursing home conditions are cross-referenced to 10.1303A and 10.1303B, another imperfect pointer in the text (the substantive conditions appear in the CF district at Sec. 10.1203); the Planning Commission applies the underlying conditions in either case under Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in C-1 (Sec. 10.1503): uses of the same general character as those in the O-1 special land use section (the text cites Sec. 10.1303, which passes through to the CF and R-2-L institutional lists), essential services except power plants, licensed commercial art, business, and stenographic schools, local retail food stores selling fish, fruit, food, hardware, meats without butchering, vegetables, and beer and wine under an SDM license, carry-out restaurants without drive-through facilities, and dry cleaning plants limited to their own customers with at most 1,800 square feet of usable floor area and nonflammable processes. The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in C-2 (Sec. 10.1603) include auditoriums, ballrooms, bowling alleys, cafes and restaurants serving alcohol, bars and cocktail lounges, self-service car washes, dance halls, drive-in retail or service businesses, indoor theaters, golf driving ranges, health and recreation facilities, skating rinks, medical or dental clinics, monument sales, public pay parking, stadiums, equipment sales and rental, on-premises bakeries, outdoor sales areas tied to a permitted building, shopping centers under the Sec. 10.1706 conditions, hotels and motels (each unit at least 250 square feet), bed and breakfast inns, integrated automobile service centers in large shopping centers, veterinary clinics without outdoor facilities, open air business uses with a 50 foot greenbelt setback from nearly every other district, leasing of up to 21 customer-driven vehicles, and drive-in or drive-through restaurants, whose service window or call box must sit more than 300 feet from AG, R-1-S, R-1-E, R-1, R-2-L, R-2-H, or R-3 zoned property or be separated from it by a street with at least 120 feet of right-of-way (Sec. 10.1603.B.33.a). The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in C-3 (Sec. 10.1703): uses of the same general character as the C-2 special land use list, flea markets, automatic drive-through car washes, drive-in theaters, service stations, outdoor retail sales of plant material not grown on site with lawn furniture and garden supplies as a clearly secondary operation, and leasing of customer-driven vehicles under the Sec. 10.1603 conditions. The parking ratio for shopping centers in the schedule is printed as one space per one hundred (150) square feet, an internal contradiction in the ordinance text; get the township's number in writing before sizing a center's parking (Sec. 10.0323.C.5.c).

Special land uses in C-4 (Sec. 10.1803): uses of the same general character as the C-3 special land use list, nightclubs, open-air business uses including outdoor sales or rental space for automobiles, agricultural implements, boats, or mobile homes, automatic mechanical car washes, massage parlors, and adult businesses. Adult businesses must sit more than 500 feet from AG, R-1-S, R-1-E, R-1, R-2-L, R-2-H, R-3, and CF districts and more than 1,000 feet from another adult business or any K-12 school property line (Sec. 10.1803.D). The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in WH (Sec. 10.1903): commercial radio, telephone, and TV antennas and towers, building materials storage, contractors' equipment storage, freight yards, amusement parks and circuses, retail lumber yards, industrial medical clinics, and accessory outside storage of currently licensed vehicles and materials, provided all storage sits within the setbacks and a chain link or masonry wall of 6 to 8 feet encloses the storage area; any change of stored material needs new Planning Commission approval. Warehouse parking: 1 space per 1,500 square feet of gross building area in the WH district plus 1 per 500 square feet of office space; mini-warehouses need 5 spaces plus 1 per 100 square feet of office (Sec. 10.0323.C.7).

Special land uses in MR (Sec. 10.2003): utility and public service facilities serving the vicinity without outside storage, ambulance dispatch centers, assembly of professional and scientific instruments, electronics, appliances, and office machines, printing, publishing, and photographic processing, warehouse and wholesale establishments used in conjunction with permitted uses, limited retail sales incidental to principal uses capped at 10 percent of building floor area, and industrial medical clinics. The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2402. Office research parking runs 1 space per 200 square feet (Sec. 10.0323.C.6).

Special land uses in M-1 (Sec. 10.2103): the WH special land use list, heliports, indoor gun and archery ranges, industrial medical clinics, indoor recreation and training facilities with parking set by Fire Marshal holding capacity and no shared parking, automobile repair garages and service centers at least 100 feet from residential districts with all repairs indoors and screened storage for damaged vehicles, meat processing limited to carcasses arriving without hide, skin, or feathers and no waste rendering, and C-2 commercial uses that serve the industrial district, such as dining and workforce training, with adequate parking and compatibility findings. The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2401 and Sec. 10.2402 as cited in the article.

Special land uses in M-2 (Sec. 10.2203): any M-1 special land use the Planning Commission finds not harmful, plus acid manufacture, blast furnaces and coke ovens, cement, lime, and plaster manufacture, distillation of bones, coal, tar, or wood, drop forges with power hammers, fat rendering, manufacture or storage of explosives, automobile impound lots, glue manufacture, heavy truck and construction equipment rental, meat packing plants, paper and pulp manufacture, sawmills, slaughtering, smelting, stockyards, tanning, airports, outdoor gun and archery ranges, truck terminals, and truck repair facilities. Automobile wrecking and junk yards qualify only inside a building or behind a 100 foot planted buffer with a 4 foot berm and a solid masonry wall at least 8 feet tall and as tall as the stored objects, with no junk visible from any residence within 1 mile (Sec. 10.2203.C). Auto collision, painting, and rebuilding shops follow the cross-referenced M-1 conditions (Sec. 10.2203.D, which cites Sec. 10.2103.G as printed; the auto-repair conditions actually sit at Sec. 10.2103.F, another drifted pointer). The Planning Commission decides under Sec. 10.2402.

Special land uses in SLD (Sec. 10.2303) include refuse and garbage incinerators on at least 20 acres, abutting only M-2 land with one property line on a railroad right-of-way, incinerator structures at least 200 feet from property lines and 400 feet from public street rights-of-way, with electrostatic precipitator-grade emission controls. The Planning Commission decides under the Sec. 10.2402 procedures.