To permit general industrial uses in districts located at substantial distances from residential or built-up areas. These uses have potential for severe negative impact on any nearby uses, and shall be carefully screened and buffered to prevent negative impact on adjacent land uses. Location shall be along minor thoroughfares.

1.

All principal permitted uses in the M-1 district.

2.

Building contractors' storage yards for materials, equipment and vehicles; building material sales.

3.

Carpenter and cabinetmaking shops.

4.

Coal, coke or fuel yards.

5.

Pharmaceutical products manufacturing.

6.

Produce markets and terminals.

7.

Public utility buildings, including warehouse storage and trailer transfer yards, and electric and gas service buildings and yards.

8.

Soft drink bottling establishments.

9.

Creameries.

10.

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

11.

Water supply and sewage disposal plants.

12.

Water, gas and oil tank containers.

13.

Lumberyards.

14.

Automobile accessory manufacturing not including tires.

15.

Bump shops.

16.

Cigar and cigarette manufacturing.

17.

Electrical fixtures, batteries and other electrical apparatus manufacturing.

18.

Furniture and upholstery manufacturing.

19.

Hardware and cutlery manufacturing.

20.

Leather goods and luggage manufacturing.

21.

Machine shops.

22.

Mattress manufacturing.

23.

Metal buffing, plating and polishing.

24.

Metal molding and treating.

25.

Painting and varnishing shops.

26.

Paper box and cardboard products manufacturing.

27.

Power generating plants for heating or electrical power.

28.

Tinsmith and sheet metal shops.

29.

Wearing apparel manufacturing, including shoes, handbags, etc.

30.

Welding shops.

31.

General 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.

All uses permitted by special approval in the M-1 district.

2.

Automobile or other machinery assembly plants, and body plants.

3.

Brewing or distillation of malt beverages or liquor.

4.

Canning factories.

5.

Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacturing.

6.

Incineration of garbage or refuse.

7.

Lumber or planing mills.

8.

Metal extrusion, metal stamping and pressing plants.

9.

Junkyards.

a.

Minimum lot size shall be two (2) acres.

b.

The setback from the front property line to the area upon which junk materials are stored shall be not less than seventy-five (75) feet and said area shall be screened from the roadway and from any adjoining residential or business uses by an obscuring fence not less than six (6) feet nor more than eight (8) feet in height. Said fence to be kept uniformly painted, in good maximum repair, neat in appearance, and shall not have any signs, words or symbols on it.

c.

The area upon which junk materials are stored, including the main and accessory buildings, shall be located not closer than one hundred fifty (150) feet to any public building, church, hospital, sanitation, convalescent home, day nursery or school.

d.

All structures and fencing and used material storage yards shall be set back not less than fifty (50) feet from any street or highway right-of-way.

e.

No storage of materials or junk shall be visible off-site.

f.

No vehicles for sale, rent or lease shall be displayed so as to be visible from off the site.

g.

A feasible groundwater protection plan shall be provided.

10.

Petroleum or other flammable liquids production, refining or outdoor storage.

11.

Slaughterhouses, reduction or recovering of products from dead animals or animal offal.

12.

Smelting of any ferrous or nonferrous material.

No use, otherwise allowed, shall be permitted within the M-2 general industrial district that 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 an 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 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 material 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 adjacent uses.

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 (1) volume of odorous air to four (4) 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. When said lot is adjacent to the residentially or commercially zoned property, in addition to the fence or wall, a twenty-five (25) foot landscaped greenbelt will be located outside the fence or wall on the industrial property, planted and maintained by the property user.

7.

Open storage. All storage of building contracting, or plumbing materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, equipment and other supplies, shall be located within an area not closer than two hundred (200) feet from any street right-of-way line. The storage of lumber, coal or other combustible material shall not be less than twenty (20) feet from any interior lot line, and a roadway shall be provided, graded, surfaced, and maintained from the street to the rear of the property to permit free access of fire trucks at any time. All such open storage shall be screened from all streets, and on all sides which abut any residential or commercial district, by a solid six (6) foot wall or fence sufficient to serve as a permanent retaining wall or fence.

1.

Minimum lot area: One (1) acre.

2.

Minimum lot width: One hundred fifty (150) feet.

3.

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

4.

Minimum yards (setbacks):

Front: Sixty (60) feet.

Sides: Each thirty (30) feet.

Rear: Fifty (50) feet.

5.

Maximum height: Three (3) stories or fifty (50) 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 subject following recommendation of 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 in the 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.