Commission advances land-division draft, debates lot size, frontage and PUD rules

May 14, 2026

Members continued line-by-line review of the county land-division ordinance draft, debated whether subdivision review should trigger at 5 or 10 acres, discussed adopting default septic/shoreline minimums and favored relying on township standards where present.

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The commission resumed review of the proposed county land-division ordinance and spent substantial time on lot-size thresholds, access/frontage dimensions and planned-unit-development (PUD) provisions. Several members said the county should limit prescriptive standards where townships have their own zoning and should default to established septic and shoreline minimums when townships lack rules.

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