The purpose of this chapter is to provide for implementation of the goals and objectives of the Marshall Township Comprehensive Plan, adopted August, 2006, as amended from time to time. The Comprehensive Plan recognizes that Marshall Township is a growing diverse community with tree-lined rural roads and interstate highways, pristine green areas and commercial development, historic villages and suburban developments, estate houses and townhomes. Marshall Township has been able to maintain a high quality of life for its residents, and the goal of this chapter is to assist in the implementation of those objectives expressed in the Comprehensive Plan and maintain a unique and attractive blend of the best of both rural and suburban living that has made Marshall Township a distinctive and desirable place in which to live, work and raise families. These objectives are accomplished by:
A. Securing safety of residents from fire, flood, panic and other natural and man-made disasters.
B. Providing adequate light, air and open space.
C. Ensuring that the development of Marshall Township does not conflict with the development and general welfare of neighboring municipalities, the county and the state as a whole.
D. Encouraging the appropriate and efficient expenditure of public funds by the coordination of public development with land use policies.
E. Providing sufficient space in appropriate locations for a variety of agricultural, residential, recreational, commercial and industrial uses and open space, both public and private, according to their respective environmental requirements.
F. Encouraging the location and design of transportation routes that promote the free flow of traffic while discouraging location of such facilities and routes that result in congestion or blight.
G. Promoting a desirable visual environment through creative development techniques and good civic design and arrangements.
H. Promoting the conservation of open space and valuable natural resources and preventing urban sprawl and degradation of the environment through improper use of land.
I. Encouraging coordination of the various public and private procedures and activities shaping land development with a view of lessening the cost of such development to the township and to the more efficient use of land.
