§ 38-421. Lots having water frontage.

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(a)

Those residential lots or parcels having a water frontage, and abutting a public thoroughfare shall maintain the yard on the water side as an open unobscured yard, excepting that a covered boat well shall be permitted after review and approval of plans by the board of appeals. Accessory structures shall be permitted in the setback between the abutting road right-of-way and the main building providing the minimum front yard setback required in section 38-352 of this chapter is met.

(b)

For any development of land that includes a parking lot of three thousand (3,000) square feet or more adjacent to the Shiawassee River, no portion of the said parking lot shall be less than thirty-five (35) feet from the mean high level water mark of the flow of the river. The area between the parking lot and the river must be maintained as a greenbelt of natural plantings and include grass if necessary as a stormwater filter.

(Code 1977, § 5.103; Ord. No. 517, § 1, 2-22-94)

                    
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