Planning Commission General Information


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Meetings are the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the Summit Township Hall, 2121 Ferguson Road. Applicant's, or a representative must attend the meeting.

Notice of the hearing will be sent to all property owners within 300 feet of the property where the zoning change, conditional use, or home occupation is being requested. One (1) notice will be published in a newspaper, of general circulation, identifying the request for a Conditional Use and Home Occupation. Two (2) notices will be published for Zoning Changes or amendments to the Zoning Ordinance.

Costs: There is an application fee payable at the time of filing. The applicant will also be billed for the cost of the notice published and notices mailed out. Additional costs may be incurred for the gathering of information as directed by the Planning Commission and provided for in the Zoning Ordinance.

In granting any Conditional Use or Home Occupation, the Planning Commission and/or Township Board may prescribe appropriate conditions and safeguards in conforming to the Zoning Ordinance. Violations of such conditions and safeguards, when made a part of the terms under which the Conditional Use or Home Occupation is granted, shall be deemed a violation of the Zoning Ordinance. The Planning Commission then will have grounds to terminate and cancel such permit.

A Conditional Use or Home Occupation will become null and void if the construction, occupancy of land or building authorized by the permit has not taken place with two hundred ten (210) days and completed within five hundred seventy days (575) after the date of issuance of the permit.

Any application for Zoning Change, Conditional Use or Home Occupancy, which has been denied by the Township Board, my not be resubmitted for a period of three hundred sixty five (365) days from denial, except on grounds of new evidence or proof of changed conditions found by either the Planning Commission and/or Township Board to be valid.

Information required in addition to the application where applicable.

An accurate, scaled drawing of the property, with legal description of the entire property showing all property lines, dimensions, and bearings of angles correlated with the legal descriptions.

A statement detailing the reason for the zoning change is helpful.

Site drawings showing the intended layout, use and adjacent zoning.

All existing and proposed structures and uses on the property; and dimensions of structures and their dimensioned locations.

Lot area and all calculations necessary to show compliance and/or non-compliance with the regulations of this Ordinance.

One of the following types of survey may be required; state survey or mortgage survey. (In some cases a survey of the adjacent properties may meet this requirement.) Adjacent uses and zoning will need to be indicated on the survey.

Pictures of all sides of the property, the area of the request and adjacent properties are required.

If required, the property shall be physically marked so the Planning Commission may make an onsite review of the proposed request as permitted by the property owner.

A written statement, concerning the request, from the neighbors is acceptable.

Time of Operation: hours and days, requirements regarding signs, parking, lighting.


 
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