12044 Townsend Rd, Milan, MI 48160-

Agricultural Reserve District

The Agriculture-Reserve AG-2 District is hereby established to provide reasonable land uses of a rural, agricultural character for those lands in the Township presently rural and undeveloped. The District is established to prevent scattered semi-urban development, such as residential subdivisions and site condominium development, which might prevent sound future land use, street, open space, and water/sewer systems patterns; The intent of the Agriculture-Reserve District is to minimize excessive and unnecessary public expenditures caused by scattered demand for urban levels of public services in otherwise rural areas; and to act as a buffer district between the Agricultural-Conservation AG-1 District and other non-agricultural districts in the Township. The District is intended to be applied to land currently or historically used for agricultural purposes, but with less productive soils; and to areas bordering the Agriculture-Conservation AG-1 District. It is further intended that the Agricultural-Reserve District shall serve as a secondary district for conservation of off-site open space under the Planned Unit Development PUD option; It is further recognized that private rural outdoor recreational activities such as hunting, fishing, hiking, equestrian, and similar activities and certain value-added services and agricultural support uses are necessary to support local agricultural activities and the rural economy of the Township. Accordingly, it is the intent of this District to promote agricultural and private outdoor recreational uses as an important component of the local economy, and to allow for a limited range of agriculture oriented tourism, educational, and commercial uses, subject to standards designed to minimize impacts on the Township’s rural character