43540 Romeo Plank Rd, Clinton Twp, MI 48038

Floodway District and Flood Hazard Area Zone

It is the purpose of this chapter to protect the health, safety and general welfare of persons and property by protecting the flood plains, floodway, watercourses and wetlands of the Charter Township of Clinton, Macomb County, Michigan; to regulate the use of land areas subject to periodic flooding; to protect economic property values, aesthetic and recreational values and other natural resource values associated with the flood plains and wetlands of this Township; to provide for review procedures for the use of these resource areas; and to provide for penalties for the violation of this chapter adopted to secure the public health, safety and general welfare under the combined authority of Act 246 of the Public Acts of 1945 (Township Regulatory Ordinances), as amended; Act 184 of the Public Acts of 1943 (Township Rural Zoning Act), as amended; Act 127 of the Public Acts of 1970 (Environmental Protection Act), as amended; Act 347 of the Public Acts of 1972 (Soil and Sedimentation Control Act), as amended; Act 346 of the Public Acts of 1972 (Inland Lakes and Streams Act), as amended; Act 167 of the Public Acts of 1968 (Flood Plain Control Act), an amendment to Act 245 of the Public Acts of 1929 (Water Resource Commission Act); the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended; the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended; and Act 203 of the Public Acts of 1979 (Wetland Protection Act), as amended.