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Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An Ordinance to Amend Section 138-4.300, Table of Permitted Uses by District; add new Section 138-4.425; and re-number existing Sections 138-4.425 through 138-4.445 of Chapter 138, Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to regulate oil and gas wells, repeal conflicting or inconsistent Ordinances, and prescribe a penalty for violations
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Resolved, that an Ordinance to Amend Section 138-4.300, Table of Permitted Uses by District; add new Section 138-4.425; and re-number existing Sections 138-4.425 through 138-4.445 of Chapter 138, Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County Michigan to regulate oil and gas wells, repeal conflicting or inconsistent Ordinances, and prescribe a penalty for violations is hereby accepted for Second Reading and Adoption, and shall become effective on Monday, May 25, 2015, the day following its publication in the Oakland Press on Sunday, May 24, 2015 with the following changes:
1) Section 138-4.425, 2., first sentence, changed to the following:
"A new oil or gas well shall not be located closer than 1,000 feet from a residential dwelling or place of worship, school, hospital, child care center or public park. A new oil or gas well shall also not be located closer than 330 feet from an adjoining property line, unless the adjoining property is pooled with the well site property, and unless the location is at least 660 feet from another well."
2) Section 138-4.425, 16. (b) changed to read:
"Upon discovery of an oil or gas well emergency or incident, the owner or operator shall immediately communicate to the 911 system the following information:"