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Open Space Bills Pass Michigan House

LANSING, MI-Bills mandating open space rules for local governments will now go to state Senate; opponents say local control is lost.

By Robert Carr | Updated on October 17, 2001

LANSING, MI-House Bills 4995, 5029 and 5029 dealing with open space issues that must be followed by developers passed the State House of Representatives Tuesday. The bills, sponsored by Rep. Ruth Johnson, passed by a large majority and will now go before the state Senate.

The bills require counties, townships, cities and villages with zoning ordinances to include certain open space preservation provisions in those ordinances within six months after the bills took effect. The mandatory provisions would allow an owner of land zoned for residential redevelopment to build in a portion of the developable land area the same number of dwelling units that otherwise could have been built in the entire developable area, provided certain conditions were met.

For townships, dwellings could be concentrated in up to 50 percent of the land area, and for cities and villages in up to 80 percent of the land area. However, the required adoption of open space preservation provisions would not apply if a county, township, city or village had certain zoning ordinance provisions (to be described later) in effect on or before the enactment date of the bills.

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