Documents

• Welcome Letter To New Residents
  ../welcome_to_macomb.shtml
• A brief history of zoning in Macomb --
  zonehx.shtml
• Why you should care about zoning in Macomb --
  revisit.html
• Zoning Case Law --
  zlaw.html
• Block Map ...in Acrobat ...in html

Position Statements

• Understanding the Sales Tax Option --
  /documents/salestaxquestion.shtml
• Noise Pollution --
  noise.shtml

From the US Supreme Court:

"We refused to limit the concept of public welfare that may be enhanced by zoning regulations.We said:

"Miserable and disreputable housing conditions may do more than spread disease and crime and immorality.[416 U.S. 1, 6] They may also suffocate the spirit by reducing the people who live there to the status of cattle. They may indeed make living an almost insufferable burden. They may also be an ugly sore, a blight on the community which robs it of charm, which makes it a place from which men turn. The misery of housing may despoil a community as an open sewer may ruin a river.

"We do not sit to determine whether a particular housing project is or is not desirable. The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive. . . . The values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well-balanced as well as carefully patrolled." Id., at 32-33. Village of Belle Terre V. Boraas (1974). Available: http://laws.findlaw.com/us/416/1.html