CITY OF BUCHANAN – ORDINANCE ADOPTION – COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE

CITY OF BUCHANAN
ORDINANCE #2021.11/422
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND IN PART
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED “CITY OF BUCHANAN COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE, WHICH WAS ADOPTED ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2003, AND AMENDED
SUBSEQUENTLY
Whereas The City of Buchanan’s Plan Commission held a public hearing and a regular meeting on November 9, 2021, where it unanimously approved a recommendation to the Buchanan City Commission to rezone the property owned by Joe Carter at 101 Terre Coupe/421 W. Front St.
from the existing R1 residential zoning to C1 neighborhood commercial zoning,
Whereas, the City of Buchanan’s Plan Commission adopted the Zoning Administrator’s
November 9, 2021, Staff Report, as findings of fact to support this recommendation the City
Commission to amend the comprehensive ordinance,
Whereas all state and local ordinance requirements have been met in order to make this
recommendation to the City Commission,
Whereas the findings of fact to support the zoning amendment have been attached as an exhibit to this ordinance,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY BUCHANAN CITY COMMISSION:

1. The City of Buchanan Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of September 8, 2003, as amended (hereinafter the “Ordinance”), shall be amended to rezone the property owned by Joe Carter at 101 Terre Coupe/421 W. Front St. from the existing R1 residential zoning to C1 neighborhood commercial zoning
2. The City Commission upon adoption of this ordinance will adopt the Zoning
Administrator’s November 9, 2021, Staff Report, as findings of fact to support the zoning ordinance amendment.
3. The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance Official Zoning Map will be updated to reflect that the parcel located at 101 Terre Coupe Rd/421 W. Front St. is zoned Neighborhood Commercial, C1.

X. CONFLICTING ORDINANCES: All other ordinances and parts of ordinances, or
amendments thereto, of the City of Buchanan in conflict with the provisions of this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
XI. RECODIFICATION: That the Ordinance is hereby amended to recodify the
numbering of articles and sections to conform to a standard or model codification
scheme established by the Ordinance where articles are numbered within groups of ten to associate together similar articles on similar topics, and sections are numbered
sequentially with the first two digits being the article number and the next two digits
being the sequential section number.

XII. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance amendment shall take effect on December 2, 2021, upon publication in the Berrien Record.
Proposed by Commissioner Swem
Supported by Commissioner Money
Roll Call Vote
Ayes: Mayor Denison, Pro Tern Weedon, Commissioner Money, Swem and Downey
Nays: None
Dated this 22nd day of November 2021.
City of Buchanan, County of Berrien, State of Michigan