Reminder: The page numbers refer to the page numbers of the most current version of the Clare County Master Plan unless otherwise specified.
Page 53: Under Land Use Categories: Ag-Farm-Forestry-Rural Res is defined as,
“Basic wooded rural residential dominated by single-family homes, hunting cabins, and recreational lands. This category is so named because of because of differing township zoning/land use plans using these names interchangeably for the same type of properties.”
The land use category of the Gamble-Longenecker property and the surrounding property on Mostetler Road is A-R (Agricultural/Rural Residential,) according to the most recent zoning map of Hayes Township. The Map on page 64 of the Clare County Master Plan lists the land use as AG-Farm-Forestry.
Page 53: Land Use Category: Commercial is defined as,
“…includes retail. And wholesale businesses, business and professional services, personal services, and other businesses that provide goods or services to the general public."
Michigan Moto Mania can be defined as an “other business that provides a service to the general public.” Michigan Moto Mania purports to provide recreational services to the general public, and it is a business enterprise.
Page 53: Land Use Category: Industrial is defined as
“This category includes sites where any type of manufacturing process occurs. Industries can include those that produce various emissions in the process (smoke, odor, noise, light, vibrations, etc.) or those that do not produce emissions detectable to surrounding areas – such as the assembly of parts shipped from other facilities.”
The ORV park industry can be included in the definition of “industry” because in racing and riding ORVs and Motocross bikes and snowmobiles, emissions are produced in the process. There are fumes and noise produced.
Page 80: “The most immediate threat for future land uses in Clare County is the fragmentation of large parcels that diminish the recreational uses of the properties. (This is especially true where a new house will render approximately 15 acres of land off limits to hunting.)"
Clare County’s Master Plan finds it undesirable that the building of a new house might render approximately 15 acres of land off limits to hunting. Clearly the diminished recreational use of hunting is not intended or encouraged by the county’s Master Plan. If rendering 15 acres off limits to hunting, then how much more undesirable is it that 200 acres are rendered off limits to hunting by an ORV park? And what about the greatly diminished use of the Young’s 40 acre parcel of land surrounded on 3 sides by Michigan Moto Mania? Michigan Moto Mania sits in the middle of thousands of acres of hunting land. Is that a safe place to put an ORV park?
Page 80: “Most of the expected commercial areas are already in place and we expect them to expand from them to expand from this base.”
Michigan Moto Mania, as a large commercial entity, might be better placed in a location zoned Commercial, per the guidance in the Clare County Master Plan.
Page 80: “Most of the expected industrial areas are already in place and we expect them to expand from this base."
Michigan Moto Mania, as an emitter of noise and gasoline exhaust, might be better placed in a location zoned Industrial, per the guidance in the Clare County Master Plan.
To be continued...
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