Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance & Amendments

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Detailed Table of Contents
Website last updated August, 2006

Chapter 1 Title, Purpose, Scope and Interpretation
Chapter 2* Definitions
Chapter 3 Zoning Districts and Zoning Map
Chapter 4* General Provisions
Chapter 5* RR Rural Residential District
Chapter 6* S-R Suburban Residential District
Chapter 7* R-1 Single-Family Residential District
Chapter 8 R-2 Medium Density Multi-Family Residential District
Chapter 9* R-3 Manufactured Housing Communities
Chapter 10* C-2 Suburban Office District
Chapter 11* C-1 Suburban Neighborhood Commercial District
Chapter 12* C General Commercial District
Chapter 13* Planned Unit Development Districts: Purpose and Procedures
Chapter 14 Standards Applicable to all PUD Districts
Chapter 15 PUD-1 Low Density Residential PUD District
Chapter 16 PUD-2 Medium Density Residential PUD District
Chapter 17 PUD-3 Medium Density Residential/Low Density Office PUD District
Chapter 18 PUD-4 Low Density Office PUD District
Chapter 19* PUD-5 Community Service PUD District
Chapter 20 TC-PUD Town Center PUD
Chapter 21 NC-PUD Neighborhood Commercial PUD
Chapter 22* LC PUD Lifestyle Center - Mixed PUD District
Chapter 23* North East Beltline Zoning Overlay District
Chapter 24* Special Land Uses
Chapter 25* Site Condominiums
Chapter 26* Site Plan Review
Chapter 27 Private Roads
Chapter 28 Parking and Loading
Chapter 29 Landscaping
Chapter 30* Signs
Chapter 31 “LC-PUD” Lifestyle Center  - Mixed Use PUD District
Chapter 32 Nonconforming Uses and Buildings
Chapter 33* Administration and Enforcement
Chapter 34* Board of Zoning Appeals
Chapter 35 Amendments
Chapter 36 Separability
Chapter 37 Conflicting Ordinances Repealed

 

Amendments:  
Ordinance No. 436 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 19.3(1)(c), 23.7(3), 23.7(4) AND 24.9 OF THE GRAND RAPIDS CHARTER TOWNSHIP ZONING ORDINANCE
Ordinance No. 442 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE, ORDINANCE NO. 428, TO REPLACE THE RESERVED CHAPTER 22 WITH AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS THE TOWNSHIP TO CONSIDER LIFESTYLE CENTER MIXED USE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS.
Ordinance No. 443 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF GRAND RAPIDS [Farm Market Special Land Use]
Ordinance No. 446 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF GRAND RAPIDS [PUD-SA Option and PUD-SB Option]
Ordinance No. 453 AN ORDINANCE to amend the Zoning Ordinance of the Charter Township of Grand Rapids [Amendments to conform to the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act]
Ordinance No. 458 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF GRAND RAPIDS [Amendments Relating to Community Special Event Signs, Portable Signs, Parking of Recreational Vehicles, and Prohibition of Certain Portable Accessory Buildings]
Ordinance No. 467 AN ORDINANCE TO CONTINUE THE TOWNSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION
Ordinance No. 468 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CHARTER TOWNSIP OF GRAND RAPIDS [Sexually Oriented Businesses, Mineral Removal and Condominiums]
Ordinance No. 469 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF GRAND RAPIDS [R-3 Manufactured Housing Community District]