To encourage and facilitate the development of industrial enterprises in planned areas of the township. These uses are not generally objectionable in terms of noise, heavy truck traffic, fumes or similar characteristics. It is further intended that these light industrial uses act wherever possible as a transition between heavier industrial uses and nonindustrial uses, that they not necessarily require railroad access or major utility facilities, and that they be located with access to minor thoroughfares.

1.

Bakeries.

2.

Bottling or packaging of cleaning compounds, polishes, seeds, etc.

3.

Carpenter and cabinetmaking shops with no open storage of materials.

4.

Ceramic and property manufacturing using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns that are electrically or gas fired.

5.

Cold storage plants.

6.

Confection manufacturing.

7.

Dental, surgical and optical goods manufacturing.

8.

Jewelry manufacturing.

9.

Laboratories, research and testing centers.

10.

Central dry cleaning plants and laundries.

11.

Musical instruments manufacturing.

12.

Pattern making shops.

13.

Plastic molding and extrusion.

14.

Printing, engraving and bookbinding shops.

15.

Public utility buildings, including warehouse storage.

16.

Toiletries and cosmetic manufacturing.

17.

Tool and die, gauge, small parts, and machine shop manufacturing.

18.

Warehousing, miniwarehouses, transfer storage and loft buildings, including the distribution of the items so handled.

19.

Light industrial uses determined by the planning commission to be similar to the above.

1.

Any use customarily incidental to the permitted principal use.

2.

Enclosed storage for goods processed on the premises.

3.

Living quarters for a watchman or caretaker employed on the premises. Living quarters shall not exceed six hundred (600) square feet and shall be contained entirely within the principal building.

The following uses shall be permitted only after special approval is granted by the planning commission in accordance with the procedures, requirements and standards set forth in this section and in Article 30, and subject to any conditions imposed by the planning commission:

1.

Automobile service stations.

a.

There shall be no outside storage of vehicles or new or used equipment or parts.

b.

All automobile repair shall be conducted only within a completely enclosed building.

c.

A setback of at least fifty-five (55) feet from the right-of-way line of an existing or proposed street must be maintained.

d.

Ingress and egress points shall be at least sixty (60) feet from the intersection of any two (2) streets.

e.

A minimum lot area of not less than twenty-two thousand five hundred (22,500) square feet.

f.

All safety and hazard regulations are to be met and maintained.

g.

The entire lot, excluding the area occupied by a building, shall be hard-surfaced with concrete or a plant-mixed bituminous material. Any part of the lot not so surfaced shall be landscaped and separated from all surface areas by a low barrier or curb.

h.

Where an automobile service station adjoins property located in any residential zone, except where there is a public street between the two (2) properties, a masonry wall six (6) feet in height shall be erected and maintained along the adjoining lot line. All masonry walls shall be protected by a fixed curb or barrier to prevent vehicles from contacting the wall.

i.

All exterior lighting, including illuminated signs, shall be erected and hooded or shielded so as to be deflected away from adjacent and neighboring property.

j.

No fuel tank shall be filled at an automobile service station except through a hose connected to a pump of a type approved by the Underwriters' Laboratories, Incorporated.

2.

Kennels.

a.

All kennels shall be located on a lot large enough so that no pens, cages, runs or other kennel structures are closer than three hundred (300) feet from any property line.

b.

Dogs shall be kept within an enclosed building during the normal sleeping hours of 10:00 p.m. through 7:00 a.m. Such enclosed building shall be constructed with sound-deadening walls and ceiling.

c.

During the hours of 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m., dogs shall be permitted in covered outdoor runs or pens. Dogs shall be kept confined and not allowed to run at large on the property, except as part of supervised field training.

d.

All outdoor animal areas shall be screened from view from off-site with a sound-deadening masonry wall, at least six (6) feet in height, or a landscaped greenbelt of evergreen trees. Such evergreens shall be a minimum of four (4) feet in height at time of planting and shall be planted and maintained so as to form an opaque screen.

e.

The level of noise emitted from the property shall not exceed sixty (60) decibels, as measured at the property lines.

f.

When dogs are kept for commercial purposes such as sale, breeding, boarding or training, off-street parking shall be provided at a minimum of one (1) parking space per four (4) dogs that can be accommodated in the kennel.

g.

Kennel facilities shall be established and maintained in accordance with all applicable county and township sanitation regulations. Kennels shall be constructed with a drained concrete floor and approved septic system, or other provision for the safe, sanitary collection and disposal of wastes.

h.

At the discretion of the planning commission, a community impact statement may be required for any kennel with a capacity of eight or more dogs. The purpose of the community impact statement is to provide relevant information concerning potential environmental effects and to provide the necessary information for the planning commission to make a rational determination on the request. The community impact statement shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:

1)

Land use map indicating the subject property and land uses of adjacent properties for a radius of one half (½) mile.

2)

Site conditions of the subject property indicating:

a)

Location and size of existing natural features such as trees, streams, bodies of water, floodplains, soil types and conditions, topography, [and] groundwater table.

b)

Location and size of existing facilities and utilities (roads, water service, septic system or sanitary sewer, storm drain, gas lines, electric lines, etc.).

c)

Features adjacent to and directly across the street, i.e., pavement width, driveways, passing lanes, curb cuts, etc.

3)

Detailed description of the proposed operation including number of employees (if any); purpose(s) of keeping the dogs such as sale, breeding, boarding or training; locations and times of training activities.

4)

Description of the means of sanitary waste disposal and estimated volumes, water service, solid waste disposal, and storm drainage. The adequacy and maintenance practices for such facilities shall be analyzed.

5)

Detailed description of proposed methods for minimizing potential off-site impacts of noise and odor.

i.

The planning commission may specifically limit the number of adult dogs housed in a kennel. Any expansion in the adult dog population of twenty-five (25) percent or more shall require special approval of the planning commission.

3.

Commercial television, radio towers and public utility microwave towers, public utility and television transmitting towers, provided that the tower structures and their attendant facilities shall be located centrally on a continuous parcel of not less than one and one half (1½) times the height of the tower measured from the base of said tower to all points on each property line.

4.

Airports, heliports and airplane landing fields.

a.

Runways shall be a minimum of fifty (50) feet in width and a maximum of three thousand (3,000) feet in length.

b.

No obstruction shall exist within one hundred (100) feet on each side of the centerline of the landing field.

c.

Runway ends shall be a minimum of one thousand (1,000) feet from any road easement or right-of-way, or property line.

d.

Runways shall be set back from the property line a minimum of two hundred (200) feet either side at all points along the runway.

e.

The fuel supply shall not create a fire or safety hazard.

f.

No obstruction shall exist at each end of the landing field so that the obstruction would extend above an incline plane beginning at the ends of the runway two hundred (200) feet or the width of the landing field, whichever is greater, and widening uniformly to a width of five hundred (500) feet at the property line with a slope of two twenty to one (20:1) and obtaining a clearance of fifty (50) feet at the boundary of the property.

g.

The [planning] commission shall consider the effect of the proposed use on the permitted principal uses of surrounding parcels, including but not limited to economic conditions, sound, vibration, odor, gases, glare, and heat, smoke, dust, dirt, fly ash, drifting, blown or radioactive material.

h.

The establishment or expansion of the proposed airport or airfield shall not in any way conflict or overlap with flight patterns and approach area of any other airport or landing field.

i.

Multiple directional runways may be required in such number, orientation and manner as shall be necessary to achieve a ninety-five (95) percent wind coverage with cross wind component not greater the ten (10) knots. Such cross wind component is one that acts at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the runway.

j.

No new airport for public use and/or commercial use shall be established, nor shall any existing airport be allowed to expand to provide such a use, which is located less than five miles from any other airport for public or commercial use and less than twenty (20) miles from any airport for which any instrument approach procedure is authorized by Federal Aviation Agency [Federal Aviation Administration].

k.

No aircraft will be hangered, tied down, or parked within the one thousand (1,000) foot or two hundred (200) foot setback as herein described.

l.

No part of the runway or taxi strip (that area over which an aircraft may pass to enter or exit the runway) shall be within one thousand (1,000) feet of the boundary of any residential zoning district.

m.

In addition to the information required under this ordinance, Article 29, Site Plan Review, where applicable the following information shall also be included:

1)

Boundaries of the proposed flight area.

2)

Location of fencing.

3)

The location and description of proposed and existing fuel supply, if any.

4)

Location of gas, oil wells, or pipelines, above and below ground utilities and communication towers.

5)

Location of any hazards to air navigation that may affect the landing area with specific reference to any trees which are required or contemplated to be removed.

6)

Location of proposed and existing runways, existing and proposed surface conditions of runways.

7)

A designation of landing area and taxi area lighting and method of activating lighting.

8)

Identification of access roads, on-site roads, grades for proper drainage and special drainage, existing and proposed structures on site, existing and proposed utilities.

9)

The type and daily number of aircraft in the proposed operation:

a.

Private use: Type and number of aircraft, together with registration numbers and owners of the aircraft which will be based and/or operated at any time out of the landing area.

b.

Public use: Limitations, if any, to be placed upon the type of aircraft which will utilize the landing area; limitations, if any, placed upon hours of operation of the landing area.

10)

Navigation and communication equipment or devices which will be employed and utilized at the proposed landing area.

No use, otherwise allowed, shall be permitted within the M-1 light industrial district which does not conform to the following minimum standards of use, occupancy and operation:

1.

Smoke and/or air pollution control. Emission of gases, smoke, dust, dirt and fly ash should in no manner be unclean, destructive, unhealthful, hazardous or injurious to the general welfare. Such emissions shall be in strict conformance with all applicable federal, state and county health laws pertaining to air pollution and smoke abatement.

A person shall not discharge into the atmosphere, from any source of emission, any smoke of a density equal to or greater than that density described as number 2 on the Ringelmann Chart as published by the United States Bureau of Mines; provided that the following exception of the provisions of this rule shall be permitted: Smoke the shade or the appearance of which is equal to but not darker than number 3 on the Ringelmann Chart for a period of three (3) minutes in any fifteen (15) minutes when building a new fire or breakdown of equipment occurs so as to make it evident that the emission was not reasonably preventable.

2.

Glare and radioactive materials. Glare from any process (such as or similar to arc welding or acetylene torch cutting) that emits harmful ultraviolet rays shall not be visible from any point within fifty (50) feet inside the property line. Such activity shall not create a public nuisance and the waste emitted shall at no time exceed quantities established as safe by the United States Bureau of Standards and/or the Atomic Energy Commission when measured fifty (50) feet inside the property line.

3.

Fire and explosive hazards. The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from incombustible to moderate burning as determined by the fire marshal is permitted subject to compliance with all other performance standards above mentioned. The storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials, goods or products ranging from free or active burning to intense burning, as determined by the fire marshal, is permitted subject to compliance with all other yard requirements and performance standards previously mentioned and provided that the following conditions are met:

a.

Said materials or products shall be stored, utilized or produced within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible exterior walls which meet the requirements of the Building Code of Addison Township.

b.

All such buildings or structures shall be set back at least fifty (50) feet from lot lines. All such buildings or structures shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with the installation standards prescribed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters.

c.

The storage and handling of inflammable liquids, liquefied petroleum, gases and explosives shall comply with the state rules and regulations as established by Public Act No. 207 of 1941 (MCL 29.1 et seq.), as amended.

4.

Sound level limitations. The emission of measurable noises from the premises shall not exceed seventy (70) decibels as measured at boundary or property lines. In addition, objectionable sounds of an intermittent nature or characterized by high frequencies even if falling below the aforementioned decibel readings shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to uses located off the lots.

5.

Odors. The emission of noxious, odorous matter in such quantities as to be readily detectable at any point along lot lines, when diluted in the ratio of one volume of odorous air to four or more volumes of clean air, or as to produce a public nuisance or hazard beyond lot lines, is prohibited.

6.

Protective screening and landscaping. Those sides of a lot or parcel in an industrial district that abut any other district shall be provided with a six (6) foot fence or wall.

1.

Minimum lot area: One (1) acre.

2.

Minimum lot width: One fifty (150) feet.

3.

Maximum ground floor lot coverage: Thirty-five (35) percent.

4.

Minimum yards (setbacks):

Front: Fifty (50) feet.

Sides: Each twenty (20) feet. Interior side yards may not be required in industrial parks or other combined development that utilizes a common drive and parking system.

Rear: Fifty (50) feet.

5.

Maximum height: Two (2) stories or forty (40) feet.

6.

Other major regulations applicable to this district can be found in Article 4, General Provisions, including the wall requirements in Section 4.25, and Article 26, Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations.

7.

All structures shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from all natural feature areas as defined in Article 2 of this ordinance. For site plan applications that require township board approval, this setback may be reduced by the township board following recommendation by the planning commission. Individual requests for reduction of the setback may only be granted as a variance from the township zoning board of appeals. Both bodies, in approving a reduction in the setback, shall determine that it is clearly in the public interest. In determining whether the setback reduction is in public interest, the benefit that would reasonably be expected to accrue from the proposed development shall be balanced against the reasonably foreseeable detriments to the natural features. Docks, piers, decks, boardwalks, or seawalls may be located within the natural feature setback.

In accordance with Article 29, site plan approval shall be required for all principal and special approval uses permitted in this district.

An environmental impact study may be required by the planning commission or the township board as part of any required site plan review and subject to the provisions of Section 4.45, Environmental impact statement requirements.