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Chocolay Township Regulation
Township in Marquette County, Michigan (on the shoreline of Lake Superior)
Population: 5,928
The township is located southeast of the City of Marquette in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Chocolay used to be home to sawmills, rock quarries, and a blast furnace for melting metals in its earlier days after it was founded in the 1860s. Today, the township works hard to honor the past while preserving the natural features in the area, including nearly 13 miles of Lake Superior Coastline.
Regulation meets the following Key Measures:
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Prevents the removal and/or requires the installation of native vegetation near dunes and beaches.
The township provides some language that “encourages” the responsible maintenance of existing vegetation and replacement with native vegetation. The language allows discretion by the Zoning Administrator to determine what is appropriate.
Zoning Ordinance Article V, Section 5.2.B
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Limits development/redevelopment along the shoreline.
No development is allowed within one of two specific overlay districts. One district prohibits any development within the overlay district except for the conditional use of snowmobile trails. The other prohibits any development within 100 ft of a defined foredune area.
Zoning Ordinance Article V, Section 5.1 – 5.2