FOREST HOME TOWNSHIP
STAKEHOLDER SURVEY - 1996

 

 

Eight different types or styles of residential development are listed below. The first four listed are representative of what is currently occurring in the Township today. The remainder are future options that are available but not occurring in the Township at this time. Refer to the enclosed drawings for examples of each type of residential development pattern.

 

Please select one of the eight choices that most represents the way you believe that residential development should occur in the future in Forest Home Township.

 

 

              Conventional style development throughout the Township which occurs by following the Subdivision Control Act.

 

              Conventional style development throughout the Township which results from avoiding the Subdivision Control Act.

 

              Existing vacant, agricultural and forested land remain devoid of non-farm related structures.

 

              Concentrated development around the Village of Bellaire.

 

              Open Space Subdivisions.

 

              Cluster Development.

 

              Limited Non-Farmstead Development.

 

              Creation of a Village Center at a location other than Bellaire.

PART FIVE - REFERENCES

 

Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Antrim County Solid Waste Management Plan,

 

Northwest Michigan Regional Planning and Development Commission, Northwest Michigan Water Quality Plan, Volume One

 

Northwest Michigan Council of Governments, Elk River/Chain-of-Lakes Watershed Master Plan, July 1989, Traverse City, Michigan

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Survey of Antrim County, Michigan, Dec. 1978 Washington D.C.

 

Forest Home Township, A Plan for Forest Home Township, Oct. 1973 Forest Home Township, Forest Home Township Survey 1995,

 

Northwest Michigan Resource Conservation and Development Council, Northwest Michigan Forestry Project,

 

Michigan State University, Community Development Program, Michigan Laws Related to Planning, Jan. 1989 East Lansing, Michigan

 

Michigan Society of Planning Officials, The Community Planning Process, Rochester, Michigan

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1960 Census of Population

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1970 Census of Population

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1980 Census of Population and Housing

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1990 Census of Population and Housing

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1990 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File 1

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1990 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File 3A

 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Census of Agriculture 1974, 1978, 1982, 1987, and 1992

 

Antrim County Building Department, Annual Reports

Antrim County Equalization Department, Forest Home Township Tax Rolls

Michigan Employment and Security Commission Information and Reports Section, Labor Force and Unemployment Reports

 

Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Resource Inventory System, Base, Land Use/Cover, and Soils Digital Data Files.

 

Planning and Zoning Center, Inc., Grand Traverse Bay Region Development Guidebook, 1996

 

Natural Lands Trust, Designing Open Space Subdivisions: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach, Randall Arendt, Sept. 1994

 

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Dealing with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and Development, Randall Arendt, 1988