[Adopted 8-11-1980 by Ord. No. 137 as Ch. 12 of the Grosse
Ile Township Code]
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings:
PARKING AREA
An area near or contiguous to a shopping center and used
by the public as the means of access to and egress from the stores
and business establishments at the shopping center and for the free
parking of motor vehicles of patrons of the shopping center.
SHOPPING CENTER
A minimum area of three acres of land on which there is located
one or more stores or business establishments and where there is provided
a common off-street parking area to service the same.
The Township may, upon the request of either the owner or the
person in charge of the general operation and control of the parking
area of a shopping center, by ordinance at the owner's expense:
A. Order stop signs, yield signs or other traffic control devices erected
at specified entrance or exit locations to a shopping center or at
any intersection in the parking area.
B. Regulate traffic in the parking area, including regulation by means
of traffic control signals.
C. Prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles or specified types of
vehicles at intersections or other designated locations in the parking
area.
D. Regulate the crossing of any roadway in the parking area by pedestrians.
E. Designate any separate roadway, drive or lane in the parking area
for one-way traffic.
F. Prohibit, regulate, restrict or limit the stopping, standing or parking
of vehicles in specified areas of the parking area.
G. Designate safety zones, loading zones and other restricted areas
in the shopping center.
H. Provide for the removal and storage of vehicles parking or abandoned
in the parking area during snowstorms, floods, fires or other public
emergencies, or found unattended in the parking area, where they constitute
an obstruction to traffic or where stopping, standing or parking is
prohibited, and for the payment of reasonable charges for such removal
and storage by the owner or operator of any such vehicle.
I. Adopt such additional reasonable rules with respect to traffic and
parking in a parking area as local conditions may require for the
safety and convenience of the public or of the users of the shopping
center.