TBD Portage Rd, Vicksburg, MI 49097

General Agriculture District

This District is responsive to the goals and policies of the Schoolcraft Township Master Plan pertaining to preservation of the agricultural land base of the Township, and is derived from the Agricultural Preservation land use classification in the Plan. This District will therefore include some lands within the Agricultural Preservation designation on the Master Plan's Future Land Use Plan Map 8 that are presently committed to agricultural production and/or that have some potential for active agricultural production. However, unlike the AG-1 Exclusive Agriculture District, this District may also intentionally include large wooded areas, vacant lands, nonfarmed lands providing rural character, and lands presently committed to agricultural production but having some proximity to eitherthe Village of Vicksburg or the Village of Schoolcraft, or other developed areas. It may also include areas presently involved with agricultural production, but isolated from other similar areas where agricultural production is dominant, and thus potentially less amenable to long-term preservation for agricultural uses. Notwithstanding the somewhat greater variety of land areas intended to be included in this District, as compared to the AG-1 District, the main focus of this District remains the preservation and encouragement of agricultural production, and other related rural-type activities generally associated with large parcels, as the principal land uses within the foreseeable future. The regulations for this District are therefore specifically designed and intended to substantially prevent the encroachment of housing developments and restrict other non-farm development, including new singlefamily dwellings. New housing developments such as subdivisions; plats including expansion of existing subdivisions; plats are not allowed in this district.