Township work session narrows options for rebuild rights, flags administrative limits on PUD changes

Cascade Charter Township considered changes to the proposed zoning ordinance’s nonconforming-structure provisions and the limits of administrative decision-making during a Oct. 23 work session.

Manager Andrea Smith told the board the draft ordinance frames two priority questions: the form-based village density and a legal provision on rebuilding nonconforming structures. Township attorney Mike summarized revisions intended to “get parity between what I view as, destroyed or damaged building, right, beyond a certain percentage” and said the draft ties reconstruction to a destruction threshold rather than automatically allowing an as‑was rebuild. “If it’s destroyed in excess of 60%, then you would have to meet the new requirements for the building reconstruction,” Mike said during his presentation.

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