4/6/13 - A total of 26 parcels were rezoned by the Green Oak Township Board Wednesday night to accurately reflect the fact that they are owned by the municipality. Township Planner Don Wortman says the issue came up when the township noticed that parcels owned by the Huron Clinton Metropolitan Authority were incorrectly zoned as residential. The parcels that were rezoned, which included three cemeteries, two fire stations, the township hall, the police station, and various portions of park land, should all be zoned as public land but were not labeled as such. Supervisor Mark St. Charles says the township does have a specified public land zoning category, but the parcels in question were mostly just given the same zoning designation as the land around them. This has led to inaccurate representations of township holdings on the local zoning map. St. Charles says the parcels were already tax-exempt and being operated by the township government, so the rezoning is only meant to improve the accuracy of the zoning map. (TD)
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