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Clinton Charter Township Overview
Clinton Charter Township, MI Code of Ordinances
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON MICHIGAN
PRELIMINARY UNIT
PART TWO - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART EIGHT - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
TITLE TWO - Planning
TITLE FOUR - Subdivision Regulations
TITLE SIX - Land Development Regulations
TITLE EIGHT - Zoning
CHAPTER 1250 General Provisions and Definitions
CHAPTER 1252 Administration, Enforcement and Penalty
CHAPTER 1254 Board of Appeals
CHAPTER 1256 Districts Generally and Zoning Map
CHAPTER 1258 R-1 Through R-5 One-Family Residential Districts
CHAPTER 1260 RT Two-Family Residential District
CHAPTER 1262 RML Multiple-Family Residential Low-Rise District
CHAPTER 1264 RMH Multiple-Family Residential High-Rise District
CHAPTER 1266 MH Manufactured Home Community District
CHAPTER 1268 OS-1 Office/Service Low-Rise District
CHAPTER 1270 OS-2 Office/Service Mid-Rise District
CHAPTER 1272 OS-3 Office/Service High-Rise District
CHAPTER 1274 B-1 Neighborhood Business District
CHAPTER 1276 B-2 Community Business District
CHAPTER 1278 B-3 General Business District
CHAPTER 1279 B-4 Regional Business District
CHAPTER 1280 I-1 Light Industrial District
CHAPTER 1282 I-2 General Industrial District
CHAPTER 1283 TR Technical Research District
CHAPTER 1284 P Parking District
CHAPTER 1286 SP Special Purpose Districts
CHAPTER 1287 GB Groesbeck Highway Overlay District
CHAPTER 1288 PUD Planned Unit Development District
CHAPTER 1290 FW Floodway District, Flood Hazard Areas and Wetlands
CHAPTER 1293 Use Standards
CHAPTER 1294 General Site Plan Development Regulations
CHAPTER 1295 Landscaping Standards
CHAPTER 1296 Performance Standards
CHAPTER 1297 Development and Approval Procedures
CHAPTER 1298 Nonconforming Uses
APPENDIX I SKETCHES
APPENDIX II ZONING MAP CHANGES
PART THIRTEEN - FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS
PART FOURTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
CHAPTER 1280
I-1 Light Industrial District
1280.01   Purpose.
1280.02   Principal uses permitted.
1280.03   Required conditions.
1280.04   Uses requiring special approval.
1280.05   Height, bulk and area requirements.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Zoning and planning generally - see M.C.L.A. Secs. 125.11 et seq., 125.31 et seq., 125.581 et seq.
   Regulation of location of trades, buildings and uses by local authorities; authority to zone - see M.C.L.A. Secs. 125.581, 125.582
   Regulation of congested areas - see M.C.L.A. Sec. 125.583
   Uses of land or structures not conforming to ordinances; powers of legislative bodies; acquisition of property - see M.C.L.A. Sec. 125.583a
1280.01   PURPOSE.
   (a)   The I-1 Light Industrial District is designed to primarily accommodate industrial operations conducted wholly within a building, the physical effects of which operation are restricted to the District and in no manner affect, in a detrimental way, any of the surrounding districts.
(Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98.)
   (b)   It is the intent of the Township of Clinton to carefully preserve land in the I-1 Light Industrial District for manufacturing and related uses. Therefore, only in exceptional circumstances will certain convenience services, necessary to serve the basic light industrial and related uses, be permitted. It is also the intent of this chapter that manufacturing, processing and assembly from raw materials shall be prohibited.
(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)
1280.02   PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED.
   In an I-1 Light Industrial District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code. These uses may be subject to additional standards as specified in Chapter 1293 Use Standards:
   (a)   Educational, research and design facilities charged with the principal function of research and development of new products and processes and technical training.
   (b)   Industrial, scientific or commercial research, development and testing laboratories.
   (c)   Executive and administrative offices.
   (d)   Industrial, medical and dental clinics, medical, optical, pharmaceutical and dental laboratories and veterinary hospitals and clinics.
   (e)   Data processing and computer centers, including service and maintenance of electronic data processing equipment.
   (f)   Legal, engineering, surveying, accounting, architectural and similar professional offices.
   (g)   Trade, industrial or technical schools.
   (h)   Radio and television broadcasting stations, excluding towers.
   (i)   Printing, publishing, photographic processing or allied industries.
   (j)   Limited retail sales of products customarily incidental to the principal uses.
   (k)   The manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles from previously prepared materials, such as: electronics, food goods, candy, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, toiletries, optical goods, toys, electrical equipment, appliances, pottery, hardware, cutlery, and small auto parts. This is provided that such activity is completely contained within the building. Outside storage is prohibited in the District.
   (l)   Laboratories for experiments, filming or testing.
   (m)   The manufacture and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet-metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.
   (n)   Warehousing and wholesale establishments.
   (o)   Greenhouses with retail adjuncts.
   (p)   Central dry-cleaning plants or laundries.
   (q)   Fence, awning, roofing and landscaping sales uses, including outdoor display areas.
   (r)   Automotive painting, bumping and welding shops and tire recapping, when completely enclosed.
   (s)   Metal plating, buffing and polishing.
   (t)   Lumber yards.
   (u)   Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transformer stations and substations, gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards, and water and sewer pumping stations, when operational requirements necessitate the locating of said buildings within the District in order to serve the immediate vicinity. The Planning Commission and the Township Board may require walls and landscaping in order to screen such uses where they deem the same to be necessary.
   (v)   Churches.
   (w)   Other uses similar to the above.
   (x)   Accessory uses customarily associated with an above permitted principal use.
   (y)   Indoor commercial recreation facilities such as bowling alleys, archery ranges, sports arenas, skating rinks, racquet ball courts and similar establishments. However, billiard halls, coin or token-operated amusement arcades and adult-use businesses are expressly prohibited.
   (z)   Schools, operated for profit, for the training or instruction of non-academic subjects such as, but not limited to, dance, music, martial arts and similar artistic or athletic pursuits provided that the Department of Planning and Community Development determines that available off-street parking is adequate to serve the use.
   (aa)   Automotive service and repair of such items as batteries, brakes, tires, glass, exhaust systems, upholstery, undercoating, transmissions and engines.
   (bb)   Internet sales establishments.
   (cc)   Accessory or ancillary oil and gas uses or structures shall be permitted subject to the further provisions of Chapter 1293.
   (dd)   Carnivals and Festivals. These shall meet the conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.
   (ee)   Outdoor Sales and Display of Goods which are accessory to a Principal Permitted Use. These shall meet the conditions set forth in Chapter 1293.
      (Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. 260-A-292. Passed 8-18-97; Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. 260-A-393. Passed 6-1-04; Ord. 260-A-402. Passed 12-20-04; Ord. 260-A-414. Passed 11-7-05; Ord. 260-A-454. Passed 1-11-16.)
1280.03   REQUIRED CONDITIONS.
   (a)   Any use established in the I-1 District, after the effective date of this Zoning Code, shall be operated so as to comply with the performance standards set forth in Chapter 1296: (Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83.)
   (b)   All industrial type uses as identified in 1280.02 must be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. Outdoor storage of any goods, materials or products accessory to the principal use may be permitted to occupy a non-required rear yard or interior side yard, provided that such storage area is adequately screened from all property lines in a manner approved by the Township Board, upon recommendation from the Planning Commission. Such outdoor storage shall not occupy an area greater than 50% of the floor area of the principal use, or 5,000 square feet, whichever is less. (Ord. 260-A-163. Passed 6-6-88.)
   (c)   Parking facilities, other than for customer or employee parking, of operational vehicles incidental to all permitted uses in the I-1 Light Industrial District, shall conform to the following:
      (1)   All such parking of vehicles shall be in the rear yard.
      (2)   The Planning Commission and the Township Board shall approve the location and layout of such parking areas.
      (3)   Outdoor storage of inoperative or wrecked vehicles is prohibited.
(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83.)
   (d)   For all parcels directly abutting a major thoroughfare, access to the parcel shall be from an internal marginal access road having a width of 30 feet and not directly from the abutting thoroughfare. The Township Board, upon recommendation from the Planning Commission, may waive this requirement if such marginal access road is impractical to construct or would serve no useful purpose. In granting such waiver, the Township Board may require easements to provide for vehicular access to existing or proposed adjacent parking lots in order to minimize the need for driveways to each facility and thereby decreasing hazards to vehicle traffic. In such instances, a reciprocal use agreement shall be signed by each owner in a form satisfactory to the Township Attorney and shall be recorded with the Macomb County Register of Deeds.
   (e)   Curb cuts for vehicular access to and from a marginal access road to and from the abutting major thoroughfare shall be no closer than 300 feet to each other.
(Ord. 260-A-314. Passed 8-10-98; Ord. Passed 10-30-23.)
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