SB 1020 Summary

• Zoning ordinances regulating high-risk areas, flood risk areas, or environmental areas must be submitted to the Department of Natural Resources for approval before becoming effective.

• The department shall approve ordinances that adequately prevent property damage or damage to environmental areas, high-risk areas, or flood risk areas.

• Permits are not required for dredging, placing spoils, temporarily using equipment, or constructing seawalls, revetments, or other shoreline stabilization structures located landward of the ordinary high-water mark.

• Permits are not required for constructing or maintaining boat wells and slips for private, noncommercial, recreational boats not exceeding 50 feet in length if spoil is not disposed of below the ordinary high-water mark.

• These exemptions do not apply to lands within the St. Clair Flats survey area in Clay Township, St. Clair County, as provided under 1899 PA 175.