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CITY OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN CODE OF ORDINANCES
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CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTERS 3-5: RESERVED
CHAPTER 6: ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS
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CHAPTER 10: ANIMALS
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CHAPTER 14: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 15: BUSINESSES
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CHAPTER 18: CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
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CHAPTER 22: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTERS 23 - 25: RESERVED
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CHAPTERS 27 - 29: RESERVED
CHAPTER 30: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 31: RESERVED
CHAPTER 32: MUNICIPAL CIVIL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 33: RESERVED
CHAPTER 34: OFFENSES
CHAPTERS 35 - 37: RESERVED
CHAPTER 38: PARKS AND RECREATION
CHAPTERS 39 - 41: RESERVED
CHAPTER 42: PLANNING
CHAPTERS 43 - 45: RESERVED
CHAPTER 46: SOLICITORS AND CANVASSERS
CHAPTERS 47 - 49: RESERVED
CHAPTER 50: SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 51: RESERVED
CHAPTER 52: PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND NUISANCE ABATEMENT
CHAPTER 53: RESERVED
CHAPTER 54: SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
CHAPTERS 55 - 57: RESERVED
CHAPTER 58: STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES
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CHAPTER 62: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 63: RESERVED
CHAPTER 64: TAX EXEMPTION
CHAPTER 65: RESERVED
CHAPTER 66: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 67: RESERVED
CHAPTER 68: UTILITIES
CHAPTER 69: RESERVED
CHAPTER 70: VEGETATION
CHAPTER 71: RESERVED
CHAPTER 72: MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
CHAPTER 73: RESERVED
CHAPTER 74: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTERS 75 - 81: RESERVED
CHAPTER 82: ZONING
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§§ 82-319 -- 82-335 RESERVED.
ARTICLE XVI. IRO INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH OFFICE DISTRICT
§ 82-336 INTENT.
   The IRO Industrial Research Office Districts are designed to provide for uses which are office or research type or industrial uses which have limited impact outside of the industrial building. The District is intended to encourage uses which have a high value per acre of land that will supplement the city's tax base. Certain businesses are permitted within office buildings as secondary uses.
(1993 Code, § 82-336) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
§ 82-337 PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES.
   In an IRO Industrial Research Office District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for 1 or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter.
   (A)   Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design and pilot or experimental product development.
   (B)   Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting and sales.
   (C)   Data processing and computer centers, including service and maintenance of electronic data processing equipment.
   (D)   Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations.
   (E)   Hospitals, clinics and medical offices; medical laboratories.
   (F)   Motels or hotels.
   (G)   Assembly halls, display halls, convention centers or similar places of assembly when conducted completely within enclosed buildings.
   (H)   Other uses similar to the above uses.
   (I)   Municipal buildings and uses.
   (J)   Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the permitted uses listed in this section.
(1993 Code, § 82-337) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
§ 82-338 CONDITIONAL USES.
   The following uses may be permitted in an IRO Industrial Research Office District upon the granting of a permit for such by the Planning Commission subject to the conditions imposed in this section for each use and subject further to other conditions which, in the opinion of the Commission, are necessary to provide adequate protection to the neighborhood and to abutting properties and subject further to a public hearing held in accord with § 82-34(C).
      (1)   Any of the following industrial uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building:
         (a)   The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery; tool, die, gauge and machine shops;
         (b)   The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal (excluding large stamping such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills) and yarns;
         (c)   The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
         (d)   Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal or rubber stamps, or other small molded rubber products;
         (e)   Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs;
         (f)   Laboratories: experimental, film or testing.
      (2)   Retail and service uses shall be permitted in buildings which exceed 1 story in height as secondary uses to the principal permitted office uses included in § 82-337(1)-(5):
         (a)   Retail businesses or service establishments;
         (b)   Personal service establishments, such as but not limited to repair shops (watches, radio, television, shoe, and the like), tailor shops, beauty parlors or barber shops, laundries or dry cleaners, printing or photographic reproduction, photographic, art or interior decorating studios;
         (c)   Theaters, bowling alleys, billiard halls, health salons or similar forms of indoor recreation;
         (d)   Restaurants or other places serving food and beverage, but not including drive-in, fast food, carry-out or drive through restaurants and subject further to the following conditions.
            1.   Such uses shall be located within an office structure or motel building or shall be located in a freestanding building within the IRO District so as to be adjacent to a use designated as being allowed in § 82-337(2)-(7).
            2.   Such use shall be planned as a part of an overall plan for development of not less than 30 acres and shall be part of a service establishment complex for such development.
            3.   Such uses shall comprise not more than 20% of the land area of an overall development.
            4.   The location of such uses shall be established at the time of site plan review and approval for the total development complex.
(1993 Code, § 82-338) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
§ 82-339 REQUIRED CONDITIONS.
   Required conditions in an IRO Industrial Research Office District.
   (A)   The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited.
   (B)   Any use established in the IRO District shall be operated so as to comply with the performance standards set forth in § 82-472.
   (C)   All uses shall receive site plan review and approval by the Planning Commission prior to the issuance of any building permit.
   (D)   Off-street loading shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule.
      (1)   For office buildings of less than 100,000 square feet in gross floor area, at least 1 loading space, separate from off-street parking, shall be provided in the rear or side yard only.
      (2)   For office buildings of 100,000 square feet or more in gross floor area, at least 1 loading space with a dimension of at least 10 by 50 feet or 500 square feet in area, with clearance of at least 14 feet in height, in the rear or side yard only.
      (3)   For principal uses permitted subject to special conditions, 1 separate space, in addition to spaces required for offices, shall be provided for each service entrance to the secondary uses in the rear or side yard only.
      (4)   For industrial buildings, off-street loading shall be provided in accordance with § 82-457.
      (5)   All loading and unloading shall be provided off-street in the rear yard or in the interior side yard, and in no instance shall be permitted in a front yard. All loading and unloading areas shall be screened from public view.
   (E)   All buildings shall be provided with finished materials on all sides. Pole barn types of structures shall not be permitted.
(1993 Code, § 82-339) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
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