NOTICE
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF ORION
ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE 78-254
AMENDMENT TO ORD. 78,
ZONING ORDINANCE
ARTICLES II AND VII
MULTIPLE FAMILY
The Charter Township of Orion Board of Trustees, at the regular meeting of Tuesday, November 1, 2016, held at 7:00 p.m., at the Orion Township Hall, 2525 Joslyn Rd., Lake Orion, Michigan 48360, adopted an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance No. 78, Articles II & VII, for the Charter Township of Orion, Michigan; providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances and portions thereof; and providing an effective date.
THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF ORION ORDAINS:
SECTION 1 of Ordinance
Pursuant to the provisions of the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act, pursuant to all applicable provisions of law, Articles II & VII are amended by adding the herein after language in the Articles as follows:
ARTICLE II – Construction of Language & Definitions
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Section 2.01 – Definitions
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[Definition of “Room” deleted]
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ARTICLE VII – Multiple Family Residential Districts, RM-1 & RM-2
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Section 7.06 – Area and Bulk Requirements
A. Minimum Lot or Parcel Area. Multiple-family dwellings shall not be erected on a lot or parcel of land which has an area of fewer than five (5) acres, excluding existing road right-of-way.
B. Building Bulk and Height. The maximum building height shall be thirty-five (35) feet and two and one-half (2 1/2) stories. The maximum dimension of a building measured in any straight line shall be two hundred (200) feet.
C. Maximum Number of Dwelling Units Per Acre.
1. The number of dwelling units (du) per acre in the RM Districts shall not exceed the following:
RM-1 = 6 du/acre
RM-2 = 8 du/acre
2. In the RM-1 and RM-2 Multiple Family Districts, the area utilized in the computation of density shall be the total area of the parcel, exclusive of the right-of-way of existing public roads.
D. Minimum Floor Area/Unit.
1. One bedroom – 500 square feet
2. Two bedrooms – 700 square feet
3. Three bedrooms – 900 square feet
4. Four bedrooms* – 1,000 square feet
* An additional one hundred fifty (150) square feet of floor area shall be provided for each bedroom over and above four (4) bedrooms.
Maximum site coverage – 25%.
E. Building Setbacks.
1. Buildings shall have the following minimum setbacks from the perimeter of the parcel:
a. Front yards – 100 feet
b. All other yards,
including side and rear yards 50 feet
2. Side and rear yard setbacks shall be a minimum of seventy-five (75) feet along those property lines which abut a single-family district, or one-family detached units or lots of an approved PUD plan, and which are not separated from such units, lots, or one-family district by a major thoroughfare or collector street, or where the abutting single-family dwelling unit district is not already developed for a permitted use other than single-family residential.
3. If more than one building shall be constructed on the same site, the minimum distance between buildings shall be:
a. When front to rear, front to front,
and/or rear to rear: 70 feet
b. End to end: 30 feet
c. End to front and/or end to rear: 50 feet
4. Accessory buildings (such as carports) that do not exceed fourteen (14) feet in height may be located within minimum setback areas which do not abut public streets on the perimeter of the parcel or within the minimum distance between buildings, provided that they have setbacks of not fewer than twenty (20) feet.
F. Parking Setbacks.
1. Off-street parking spaces, drives, and aisles shall not be located fewer than twenty (20) feet to any abutting single-family dwelling district. Off-street parking spaces, drives, and aisles may be located within a yard on a public street abutting the perimeter of the parcel, provided that they are set back not fewer than thirty five (35) feet from the future right-of-way line.
2. Off-street parking spaces, drives, and aisles shall not be located fewer than ten (10) feet to all other districts or to any existing permitted use in a single-family dwelling district that is not a single-family dwelling.
3. Off-street parking spaces, aisles, and drives shall not be located closer than twenty (20) feet to any residential building wall containing windows or doors on the ground floor level or below.
4. Carports shall not be located closer than fifty (50) feet to any residential building wall containing windows or doors on the ground floor level or below, unless there is a corner to corner relationship between the building wall and the carport, in which case the minimum distance shall be twenty (20) feet.

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SECTION 2 of Ordinance
All other ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent or in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
SECTION 3 of Ordinance
The various parts, sections and clauses of this Ordinance are declared to be severable. If any part, sentence, paragraph, section or clause is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the Ordinance shall not be affected.
SECTION 4 of Ordinance
This Ordinance shall be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation in the Charter Township of Orion, qualified under State law to publish legal notices, and shall become effective upon publication, as provided by law.
SECTION 5 of Ordinance
This Ordinance is hereby declared to have been adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Charter Township of Orion at a meeting thereof duly called and held on the 1st day of November 2016, and ordered to be given publication in the manner prescribed by the Charter of the Township of Orion.
Complete copies of the Ordinance can be viewed on the Township’s website, www.oriontownship.org and also are on file in the office of the Township Clerk, 2525 Joslyn Road, Lake Orion, Michigan, 48360, where they may be examined during normal business hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Penny S. Shults, Clerk
Charter Township of Orion
Publish: 11.09.16