1262.01 Intent.
1262.02 Principal uses permitted.
1262.03 Special land uses.
1262.04 Required conditions.
1262.05 Area and bulk requirements.
CROSS REFERENCES
Zoning and planning in home rule cities - see M.C.L.A. § 117.4i
Regulation of location of trades, buildings and uses by local authorities - see M.C.L.A. § 125.581
Regulation of buildings; authority to zone - see M.C.L.A. § 125.582
Uses of land or structures not conforming to ordinances; powers of legislative bodies; acquisition of property - see M.C.L.A. § 125.583a
Industrial pretreatment of sewage - see S.U. & P.S. Ch. 1042
Industrial cost recovery system - see S.U. & P.S. 1044.09
Special land uses - see P. & Z. Ch. 1274
Nonconforming uses - see P. & Z. Ch. 1278
Off-street parking and loading - see P. & Z. Ch. 1282
Signs - see P. & Z. Ch. 1284
Provisions applicable to all districts - see P. & Z. 1286
The I-1 Light Industrial District is intended so as to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the District and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material. It is further intended that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form, to be used in an industrial operation at another location, not be permitted.
The general goals of this District include, among others, the following specific purposes:
(a) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the City's expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses.
(b) To protect abutting Residential Districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development.
(c) To promote manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor and other objectionable influences.
(d) To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well constructed plan. To protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the City's tax revenue.
(1975 Code § 5.91)
In a 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 chapter:
(a) Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design, and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building .
(b) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding, or processing shall be totally obscured by a wall on those sides abutting R-1 through R-3, R-T, RM, B-1, B-2, and B-3 Districts, and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare except as may be otherwise provided in this Zoning Code. In I-1 Districts, the extent of such a wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such a wall shall not be less than four feet, six inches in height and may, depending upon land usage, be required to be eight feet in height, and shall be subject further to the requirements of Chapters 1278 through 1286. A chain-link fence, with intense evergreen shrub planting, may be considered an obscuring wall. The height shall be determined in the same manner as the wall height is above set forth.
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and trucking facilities.
(2) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as, but not limited to: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge, and machine shops.
(3) The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood, and yarns.
(4) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(5) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other molded rubber products.
(6) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs.
(7) Laboratories - experimental, film, or testing.
(8) Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.
(9) Central dry cleaning plants or laundries, provided that such plants shall not deal directly with a consumer at retail.
(10) All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.
(c) Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations. Water supply and sewage disposal plants. Water and gas tank holders. Railroad transfer and storage tracks. Railroad rights-of-way. Freight terminals.
(d) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor's equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all Residential or Business Districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In any I-1 District, the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than five feet in height, and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chain-link type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of said fence, shall be considered to be an obscuring fence.
(e) Municipal uses such as water treatment plants, and reservoirs, sewage treatment.
(f) Commercial kennel.
(g) Greenhouses.
(h) Trade or industrial schools.
(i) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to the above uses.
(j) Accessory buildings, structures and uses in conformity with Section 1240.11(1) that are customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.
(1975 Code § 5.92) (Ord. 481. Passed 12-7-10.)
The following uses may be permitted as a special land use by the Planning Commission subject to the general and specific requirements of Chapter 1274.
(a) Auto engine and body repair, and undercoating shops when completely enclosed.
(b) Lumber and planning mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the district so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the I-1 District.
(c) Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances.
(d) Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities (such as, but not limited to, lumber yards, building materials, outlets and garage sales, upholsterer, cabinet market, outdoor boat or house trailer, automobile, or agricultural implement sales).
(e) Other uses of a similar character to the above uses.
(1975 Code § 5.93) (Ord. 08-2002-08. Passed 9-3-02.)
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