East China Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE 12
IRO Industrial Research Office Districts
§ 480-41 Purpose.
The IRO Industrial Research Office Districts are designed to provide for uses which are office or research-type or industrial uses which have limited impact outside of the industrial building. The district is intended to encourage uses which have a high value per acre of land that will supplement the Township’s tax base.
§ 480-42 Principal uses permitted.
In an IRO Industrial Research Office District, no land or building shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design, and pilot or experimental product development.
Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting, and sales.
Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations.
Industrial production of any of the following industrial uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building:
The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products.
The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, glass, paper, plastics, shell, textiles and wax.
The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps or other small molded rubber products.
Manufacture or assembly of small electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs.
Laboratories: experimental, film or testing.
Gymnasiums, health clubs, or fitness/exercise centers; indoor archery ranges, tennis courts, or skating rinks; and similar forms of indoor commercial recreation.
Municipal buildings and uses.
Other uses similar to those listed above.
Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.
§ 480-43 Required conditions.
The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited except that the growing of any vegetation requisite to conducting basic research shall be excluded from the requirement of enclosure.
A six-foot-high landscaped berm shall be provided where an IRO District abuts a residential district.
Setbacks required to an abutting residential district shall be 100 feet for buildings and 50 feet for off-street parking.
In any yard abutting a street, a greenbelt with a minimum width of 25 feet shall be provided. A berm not less than three feet high and constructed within the greenbelt area shall be provided.