Sec. 9.00A. This district is designed to provide suitable space for heavy industrial uses which operate in a safe, non-objectionable and efficient manner, and which are compatible in appearance with and require a minimum of buffering measures from adjoining non-industrial zoning districts.

(Amended: 1-11-99; 9-28-09)

Sec. 9.01A. In order to protect adjoining non-industrial zoning districts, any of the following uses will be permitted only when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding, final product storage, or processing shall be totally obscured by a wall and/or barrier of suitable material not less than six feet tall and no more than 15 feet tall on those sides abutting any residential or commercial district, in accordance with Section 13.11 [216.1311] and shall be located behind the main/major structure/building on the site.

1.

Permitted Principal Uses: All Permitted Principal Uses in I-1, Industrial District, subject to the terms and conditions provided therein.

2.

Industrial Establishments:

(a)

The assembly, fabrication, manufacture, packaging, or treatment of such products as food products (excluding butchering, animal slaughtering), candy, drugs, cosmetics, and toiletries, musical instruments, optical goods, toys, novelties, electrical instruments and appliances; radio and phonographs, pottery and figurines or other ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay.

(b)

The assembly, fabrication, manufacture, or treatment of such products from the following previously prepared materials, bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, felt, fiber, glass, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, sheet metal (including large stampings such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, wax, wire, wood (including saw and planning mills), and yarns.

(c)

Tool and die shops; metal working machine shops involving the use of grinding or cutting tools; manufacturing of tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures; publishing, printing, or forming of box carton, and cardboard products.

(d)

Laboratories—research or testing.

(e)

Central dry cleaning plants and laundries.

(f)

Automobile bump shops, machine shops, painting and sheet metal shops, undercoating and rust proofing shops, and welding shops.

3.

Public Utility Uses: Electrical transformer station and substation; electric transmission towers; municipal buildings and uses; gas regulator and municipal utility pumping stations, radio and television transmission towers.

4.

Retail and Service Establishments:

(a)

Eating and drinking establishments when food or beverage is consumed within a completely enclosed building. Establishments with a character of a drive-in or open front store are prohibited.

(b)

Truck tractor and trailer sales, rental and repair.

(c)

[Reserved.]

(d)

Automobile service stations.

(e)

Greenhouses.

5.

Open Storage Yards: Open storage yards of construction contractors' equipment and supplies, building materials, sand, gravel, or lumber:

(a)

Such uses shall be located at least 200 feet from any residential district.

(b)

If it is deemed essential by the Village Council to prevent loose materials from blowing into adjacent properties, a fence, tarpaulin or obscuring wall of no less than six feet shall be required around the stored material.

(c)

No required yard spaces shall be used for the storage of equipment or material.

6.

Wind Energy System (subject to Section 13.24[216.1324]).

7.

Solar panels (subject to Section 216.1325).

8.

Accessory Uses and Buildings: Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to the above Permitted Principal Uses, including but not limited to office space.

I-2—PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. No use otherwise allowed shall be permitted within any district which does not conform to the following standards of use, occupancy, and operation, which standards are hereby established as the minimum requirements to be maintained within said area:

1.

Smoke. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to permit the emission of any smoke from any source whatever that is not in compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, including, but not limited to, Public Act 451 of 1994, as amended.

2.

Dust, Dirt and Fly Ash. No person, firm or corporation shall operate or cause to be operated, maintain or cause to be maintained, any process for any purpose, or furnace or combustion device for the burning of coal or other natural or synthetic fuels, without maintaining and operating while using said process or furnace or combustion device, recognized and approved equipment, means, method, device or contrivance to reduce the quantity of gasborne or airborne solids or fumes emitted into the open air, which is operated in conjunction with said process, furnace or combustion device so that the quantity of gasborne or airborne solids shall not exceed the standards contained in federal, state, and local regulations, including, but not limited to, Public Act 451 of 1991, as amended.

3.

Glare and Radioactive Materials. Glare from any process (such as or similar to arc welding, or acetylene torch cutting) which emits harmful ultraviolet rays shall be performed in such a manner as not to be seen from any point beyond the property line, and as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along lot lines. Radioactive materials and wastes, and including electromagnetic radiation, such a X-ray machine operation, shall not be emitted to exceed quantities established as safe by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, when measured at the property line.

4.

Fire and Explosive Hazards:

(a)

In the I-2 Industrial District, 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.

(b)

The storage, utilization, or manufacturing of materials, goods or products ranging from free to 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:

(1)

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

(2)

All such buildings or structures shall be set back at least 40 feet from lot lines, or in lieu thereof, all such buildings or structures shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with installation standards prescribed by the National Fire Association.

(3)

The storage and handling of flammable liquids, liquefied petroleum gases, and explosives shall comply with the State Rules and Regulations as established by Public Act No. 207 of 1941, as amended.

5.

Noise. The emission of measurable noises from the premises shall not exceed 60 decibels as measured at the boundary property lines, except where normal street traffic noises exceed 60 decibels during such periods, the measurable noise emanating from such premises may equal, but not exceed, such traffic noises. This provision shall apply in all districts except as hereinafter specified for the "I" Districts.

I-2 District. In all I-2 Districts, the measurable noise emanating from the premises used for activities permitted shall not exceed 75 decibels during the normal work periods of between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and shall not exceed 70 decibels during the sleeping hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., as measured at the property lines. Noises shall be muffled so as not to become objectionable due to intermittence, beat frequency or high frequency.

6.

Vibration. Machines or operations which cause vibration shall be permitted in Industrial Districts, but no operation shall cause a displacement exceeding .003 of one inch as measured at the property line.

7.

Odors. Creation of offensive odors shall be prohibited.

8.

Wastes. All discharges to the Village of Blissfield's Publicly Owned Treatment Works (sanitary sewer system) shall conform to appropriate regulations in the Village of Blissfield's Waste Water Disposal Standards and Regulations.

(Amended: 1-11-99; 9-28-09)

Sec. 9.01B. For all uses permitted in an I-2 Heavy Industrial District, a site plan shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for review and approval in accordance with Section 13.07 (216.1307).

(Amended: 4-22-02; 9-28-09)

Sec. 90.01C Area, height, bulk and placement requirements as provided by Article XII, Schedule of Regulations.

(Amended: 9-28-09)