(A) Intent and purpose. This district is intended to accommodate industrial uses, commercial storage, and related activities. The M-1 Districts are established to permit the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material such as pharmaceuticals, hardware and cutlery, tool and die, gauge, and machine shops. It is also intended to permit industrial and commercial uses which meet the performance standards of this section. Commercial establishments engaged in limited retail sales and service establishments which are of a limited nature are permitted subject to a special use permit. It is intended to prohibit residential uses and intensive retail enterprises as being incompatible with the primary uses permitted.
(B) Required information for site plan submission. Before a building permit for a use within this district shall be issued, the owners or lessee shall submit the following material to the Zoning Administrator for review and approval:
(1) A site plan of the property showing the location of all present and proposed buildings, drives, parking areas, waste disposal fields, landscaping, plant materials, screening fences or walls, and other construction features which shall be proposed. The site plan shall meet the submittal and approval standards and be processed according to the procedures of § 153.087.
(2) A description of the operations proposed in sufficient detail to indicate the effects of those operations in producing traffic congestion, noise, glare, air pollution, water pollution, fire or safety hazards, or the emission of any potentially harmful or obnoxious matter or radiation.
(3) Engineering and architectural plans for:
(a) The treatment and disposal of sewage and industrial waste or unusable byproducts; and
(b) The proposed handling of any excess traffic congestion, noise, glare, air pollution, water pollution, fire or safety hazards, or emission of potentially harmful or obnoxious matter or radiation.
(4) The proposed number of shifts to be worked and the maximum number of employees on each shift.
(C) Uses permitted. In this district, no building, structure, or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered, or enlarged, except for the following uses:
(1) Manufacturing uses, including any production, processing, clearing, testing, repair, storage, and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs, and other semi-finished or finished products from previously prepared material, provided that the requirements specified in division (F) of this section are met.
(2) Warehousing and storage uses.
(3) Trade or industrial schools.
(4) Public utility installations and buildings.
(5) Truck or rail freight terminal.
(6) Contractor's establishment not engaging in retail activities on the site.
(8) Solar energy facilities accessory to a permitted use or approved special use and intended to produce electricity primarily for the lot they are located on, subject to the standards in § 153.128.
(9) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, and contractor's equipment.
(10) Temporary buildings, for uses incidental to construction work. The buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work or within the period of one year, whichever is the lesser time period.
(11) Public parks and recreation facilities.
(12) Accessory uses clearly appurtenant to the main use of the lot and customary to and commonly associated with the main use, such as:
(a) Incidental offices for management and materials control.
(b) Restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees.
(c) Caretaker's residence if situated upon a portion of the lot complying with all of the requirements of the residential districts.
(13) Cemeteries, public or private, subject to the following conditions:
(a) The site shall be no less than 20 acres and shall be so designed as to provide all ingress and egress directly onto or from a major thoroughfare, as classified on the Comprehensive Development Plan of the village.
(b) The location of proposed service roads, entrances, and driveways shall be so designed in relationship to the major thoroughfare that pedestrian and vehicular traffic safety is encouraged.
(14) Outdoor display. Provided that the goods to be sold are clearly labeled with a sign, of at least six square feet, stating that the item is available for purchase.
(D) Uses permitted by special use permit. The following uses of land and structures in the M-1 Zone may be permitted by the application for and the issuance of a special use permit when specified procedures and requirements as outlined in § 153.115 are complied with:
(1) Heating and electric power generating plants, other than solar or wind facilities.
(2) Outdoor storage, provided that any activity in which materials being processed or stored are located, transported, or treated outside of a building, the use shall be provided with an obscuring, permanently maintained fence or wall no lower than six feet high. Outdoor storage shall not be permitted in a front yard.
(3) Junk yards, providing the requirements of § 153.154 are met.
(4) Parking lots on lots with no other uses.
(5) Wind energy facilities, when accessory to a residential use and designed to provide electricity primarily to the lot they are located on, subject to the standards in § 153.129.
(6) Extractive uses, provided that the standards of § 153.134 are met and the Planning Commission determines that off-site negative impacts will be minimal.
(10) Agricultural uses, as listed below, provided that the lot in question is one acre or greater in area.
(a) Field crop and fruit farming, truck gardening, horticulture, aviaries, hatcheries, apiaries, greenhouses, tree nurseries, and similar agricultural enterprises along with accessory uses incidental to the above.
(b) Raising and keeping of small animals, such as poultry, rabbits and goats.
(c) Raising and keeping of livestock, such as cattle, hogs, horses, and ponies may be conducted on a lot of less than ten acres, provided that all the raising and keeping shall be for the use or consumption by the occupants of the premises.
(d) General and specialized farms including the raising and keeping for profit of cattle, hogs, horses, ponies, sheep, and similar livestock upon a lot having an area of not less than ten acres.
(e) Public and private conservation areas and structures for the conservation of water, soils, open space, forest, and wildlife resources.
(f) Public areas, such as forest preserves, game refuges, forest type recreation parks, and similar public uses of low density character.
(g) Customary home occupations as specified for R-1A Districts, § 153.124.
(h) Roadside stands and other retail establishments selling products grown on the premises upon which the stand is located, provided that contiguous space for the parking of customer's vehicles is furnished off the public right-of-way at the ratio of one parking space for each 15 square feet of roadside stand floor area and provided further that all of the requirements for accessory buildings contained in § 153.081(B) shall be met.
(i) Supplementary uses, such as customary accessory uses and buildings incidental to an agricultural use that has received a special use permit. The following accessory uses may be permitted:
1. The storage of not more than one unoccupied travel trailer upon each lot or parcel.
2. The killing and dressing of poultry and animals produced upon the premises.
(j) Riding stables and livestock auction yards.
(k) Raising of fur bearing animals for profit.
(l) Veterinary hospitals, clinics, and kennels.
(m) Seasonal labor housing complexes associated with agricultural enterprises, provided that the units are maintained in safe and sanitary condition with inside water and sanitary sewage disposal facilities and that the structures are occupied no more than eight months in any 12-month period.
(n) Sawmills.
(o) Sod farms.
(p) Grain and seed elevators and sales, and cold storage for cooperative and/or wholesale agricultural products.
(11) Marijuana uses. As listed below, in M-1 Districts west of Elm Road, and not on lots abutting Grand River Avenue, provided that they are licensed by the State of Michigan under Public Act 281 of 2016 and/or Initiated Law 1 of 2018 and that the standards of § 153.135 are met.
(a) Marijuana grow operation.
(b) Marijuana processing facilities.
(c) Marijuana safety compliance facilities.
(d) Marijuana secure transporters.
(E) Use requirements.
(1) Noise emanating from a use in this district shall not exceed the level of ordinary average street traffic noise. Noise shall not exceed 80 decibels as measured at the property line.
(2) Uses in this district shall conform to the following standards:
(a) Emit no obnoxious, toxic, or corrosive fumes or gases which are deleterious to the public health, safety, or general welfare.
(b) Emit no smoke, odorous gases, or other odorous matter in the quantities as to be offensive to health, safety, and general welfare at or beyond any boundary of the use of the parcel, for the purpose of grading the density of smoke, the shade or appearance of smoke which is equal to but not darker than No. 1 of the Ringlemann Chart, as published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines, may be emitted for a period not exceeding four minutes to any 30 minutes.
(c) Discharge into the air no dust or other particulate matter created by any industrial operation or emanating from any products stored prior or subsequent to processing.
(d) Produce no heat or glare detrimental to the health, safety, and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries.
(e) Produce no physical vibrations to such an extent to be detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries.
(f) Discharge no radioactive materials that exceed quantities established by the U.S. Bureau of Standards.
(g) Does not include in the manufacturing process any production or storage of any material designed for use as an explosive, nor in the use of any such material in production.
(F) Area and bulk requirements. See § 153.066 limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted and providing minimum yard setback requirements.
(Ord. 146, passed 3-2-1998; Ord. 163, passed 6-4-2001; Ord. 202, passed 4-21-2008; Ord. 212, passed 4-11-2011; Ord. 230, passed 12-9-2014; Res., passed 6-11-2019; Ord., passed 8-10-2021; Res., passed 3-25-2024) Penalty, see § 153.999