Zoning

NEMCOG staff provides a wide variety of zoning services to counties, townships, cities, and villages in northeast Michigan including comprehensive review and analysis of a community's current zoning, zoning updates/amendments, and complete rewrite of a community's zoning ordinance. NEMCOG staff provides expertise in rural and urban zoning as well as on current issues in the field of zoning. We specialize in providing a graphic-rich zoning ordinance that is easy for local officials and the public to use. By working closely with local Planning Commissions and Zoning Boards, we tailor zoning ordinances to make the most sense for the community.

Zoning Services offered by NEMCOG staff:

• Zoning Ordinance review and assessment
• Zoning Ordinance amendments
• Zoning Ordinance rewrites
• Zoning maps
• Site plan review reports
• Reports on Planning Commission action items
• Reports/opinions on rezoning proposals
• Reports/opinions for Zoning Board of Appeals cases
• Professional expertise on the implementation of existing plans through zoning
• General professional expertise on specific zoning issues/questions such as wind turbines, downtown regulations, agricultural zoning, airport zoning, sexually oriented businesses, cell phone towers, home based business, cottage industry, waterfront zoning, parking requirements, form-based zoning, outdoor wood burning stoves, and many other zoning-related issues.

Example of the type of graphics created by NEMCOG staff to depict district regulations: