Dexter City Zoning Code

Intent. The Master Plan identified areas within the City where regulating use and intensity of use are needed, but form-based regulations are not appropriate. These areas are predominantly single-use areas, built outside of the original Village Plat. The City encourages single-use development in these areas, while preserving the environmental features and quality of life in the City as a whole.

Intent. This district is designed to encourage a suitable and healthy environment for family life, and to provide residential areas for one-family residential densities and other uses that will serve the residents in the district.

Use regulations. § 65-10.09 sets forth permitted, accessory, and special land uses within the R-1 One-Family Residential District.

Dimensional requirements. The following dimensional requirements shall apply to the R-1 One-Family Residential District:

Supplemental district standards.

Intent. The intent of the Multiple-Family Residential District is to provide multiple-family dwelling units, including attached single-family dwellings, such as townhouses, and apartment-style dwelling units. This district is intended for locations that have substantial infrastructure, including public utilities, and are in close proximity to mixed-use areas or local commercial areas that provide retail, personal service, entertainment, and employment opportunities. In addition to the dwellings permitted in this zoning district, certain recreational, institutional, and public uses, compatible with the principal uses of this district, are permitted.

Use regulations. § 65-10.09 sets forth permitted, accessory, and special land uses within the MF Multiple-Family District.

Dimensional requirements. The following dimensional requirements shall apply to the MF Multiple-Family Residential District:

Supplemental district standards.

Intent. The purpose of this district is to provide for mobile home parks and to promote mobile home parks with the character of residential neighborhoods. It is the intent of this chapter that mobile home parks be located in areas which are served adequately by essential public facilities and services such access roads, police, and fire protection, and public sanitary sewer and water and storm drainage facilities. It is further the intent of this chapter that mobile homes in mobile home parks deserve and require locations, services, and facilities similar to any other single-family and multiple-family dwelling units built at urban densities. It is further the intent of this chapter that various supporting uses common to urban residential areas, and also those which are unique to mobile home communities, be permitted in the district.

Use regulations. § 65-10.09 sets forth permitted, accessory and special land uses within the MHP Mobile Home Park District.

Supplemental district standards.

Intent. This district is composed of those areas of the City whose intended principal use is light manufacturing and other limited industrial uses. These uses generate a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollutants, fire, explosive and radioactive hazards, and other harmful or noxious matter. This district has been located within the City to permit the development of these industrial uses, to protect adjacent residential and commercial areas against the encroachment of incompatible uses, and to lessen congestion on public roads and highways. To these ends, certain uses which would function more effectively in other districts and would interfere with the operation of these industrial activities and the purpose of this district have been excluded.

Use regulations. § 65-10.10 sets forth permitted, accessory and special land uses within the I-1 Limited Industrial District.

Dimensional requirements. The following dimensional requirements shall apply to the I-1 Limited Industrial District:

Supplemental district standards.

Intent. This district is intended for research, development, and industrial uses that encourage and promote a healthy, stable local economy. This district is intended for areas with road, transportation, and utility service availability needed by the allowed uses. This district should be located in the City's industrial park or areas relatively isolated from incompatible uses, such as residential, and to limit impacts on adjacent uses, including the generation of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollutants, fire, explosive and radioactive hazards, and other harmful or noxious matter. Supplemental standards in this district are intended to provide for appropriate facility design in keeping with the character of the district and the City; and to limit impacts on adjacent properties.

Use regulations. § 65-10.10 sets forth permitted, accessory and special land uses within the R-D Research and Development District.

Dimensional requirements. The following dimensional requirements shall apply to the R-D Research and Development District:

Supplemental district standards.

Intent. The district is intended to provide an appropriate zoning classification for government, civic and recreational facilities where a separate zoning district is deemed appropriate based on land use patterns and surrounding conditions. This district is intended for areas are designated either Public or Open Space on the Future Land Use Map in the Master Plan. This district is intended to protect public and quasi-public facilities and institutions from the encroachment of certain other uses, to ensure compatibility with adjoining land uses, and, in some cases, to provide an ecological buffer of open space for Mill Creek and the Huron River. Several of the public facilities allowed in this section are also permitted or special uses in one or more of the other zoning districts, where integration of those uses contribute to the character of the district, such as a park in a residential zoning district or a municipal building in the Central Business District.

Use regulations. § 65-10.10 sets forth permitted, accessory and special land uses within the PF Public Facilities District.

Dimensional requirements. The following dimensional requirements shall apply to the PF Public Facilities District:

Supplemental district standards.

Continued conformity with bulk regulations. The maintenance of setback, height, lot coverage, open space, mobile home site, transition strip, lot area and lot area per dwelling unit required for one use, lot, building or structure shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of such building, structure, or lot on which such use, building or structure exists. No setback, height, lot coverage, open space, mobile home site, transition strip, lot area per dwelling unit allocated to or required about or in connection with one lot, use, building or structure may be allocated to any other lot, use, building, or structure.

Corner lot setbacks. A corner lot shall maintain front yard requirements for each road frontage.

Height. The limitations affecting the height of the structures shall not apply to the following appurtenant and structures provided they comply with all other provisions of this or any other applicable ordinances: Parapet walls, chimneys, smokestacks, church spires, flag poles, penthouses for mechanical equipment and water tanks.

Specified uses. In all Residential Districts, 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 article.

Schedule of uses. The Schedule of Use Regulations identifies uses as follows:

Specified uses. In all Non-Residential Districts, 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 article.

Schedule of Uses. The Schedule of Use Regulations identifies uses as follows: