§ 154.040 SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED ACTIONS AND USES.
   (A)   Cutting, filling or building in a floodplain;
   (B)   Stream alteration (damming, dredging, filling, channelization, enlarging or diminishing a stream or stream improvement) without the express written consent of the state’s Department of Natural Resources as required by the Inland Lakes and Streams Act of 1972, being Public Act 346 of 1972, being M.C.L.A. §§ 324.30101 et seq.;
   (C)   Utilities:
      (1)   No gas, oil pipelines or electric transmission lines shall be permitted in the Rogue River District or to cross the Rogue River, except on existing rights-of-way, without prior written consent of the Natural Resources Commission;
      (2)   New distribution lines shall not cross the Rogue River or housing setback zones unless they are placed underground; and
      (3)   The utilities specified herein to private dwellings shall originate from the landward side of the dwelling.
   (D)   Access:
      (1)   No vehicular access to the river not existing at the date of adoption of the amendment shall be provided;
      (2)   No public roads not in existence at the date of adoption of this amendment shall be permitted in the RR Zone;
      (3)   No public road in the RR Zone shall be relocated or improved until plans therefor have been approved by the Natural Resources Commission;
      (4)   No road access to private property shall be permitted without prior approval of the Zoning Administrator;
      (5)   Private road access shall not be permitted within 150 feet of the Rogue River, except as provided in § 154.038 of this chapter; and
      (6)   Cutting of trees of more than six inches in diameter at breast height is prohibited within 50 feet of each side of the river’s edge of the Rogue River without the prior approval of the Zoning Administrator.
(Ord. passed 7-12-2012, § 8.28)