I actually served on our Planning Commission and helped draft the new ordinance. Without boring you to death, what we did was plan that civilization would come, whether we wanted it or not, but try and keep the township looking as it did at the time.
I think we succeeded. Not everybody is happy, but we still have a lot of dirt roads, no road millage, a lot of woods, water, prairie and it still looks pretty much like the 50's around here, even tho we have 3 times as many people. We decided to let all the modern crap happen in the city of Newaygo and keep our township as rural as possible. Makes the city happy cause they get the business tax base and we get to keep the trees.