East China Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE 13
I-1 Industrial One Districts
§ 480-44 Purpose.
The I-1 Industrial One Districts are designed to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material, it being the intent of this section that the processing or manufacturing from raw materials not be permitted. The general goals of this use district include, among others, the following specific purposes:
To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the Township’s expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses;
To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development;
To encourage manufacturing development and warehousing which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, and other objectionable nuisances;
To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well considered plan;
To protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the Township’s tax revenue.
§ 480-45 Principal uses permitted.
In an I-1 Industrial One 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 when conducted within a completely enclosed building. The growing of any vegetation requisite to the conducting of basic research shall be excluded from the requirement of enclosure.
Municipal uses such as water treatment plants and reservoirs, sewage treatment plants, and all other municipal buildings and uses, including outdoor storage.
Any of the following uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, or within a designated area enclosed on all sides with a six-foot-high fence or solid wall. Said fence or wall shall be completely obscuring on those sides where abutting or adjacent to districts zoned for residential use.
Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and trucking facilities;
The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as, but not limited to, bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge, and machine shops;
The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as, but not limited to, bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal (excluding large stampings, such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills), and yarns;
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 electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs;
Laboratories: experimental, film, or testing;
Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like.
Automobile or truck repair facilities, provided that no outdoor storage of scrap, junk cars, junk trucks, spare parts or dismantled vehicles shall be permitted.
[Added 1-5-2009 by Ord. No. 299]
Mini storage buildings when the following conditions are met:
[Added 10-20-2003 by Ord. No. 281]
Doors providing access to individual storage units shall not be permitted on the front yard side of the building.
Vehicular aisles providing access to units on both sides of the aisle, whether interior or exterior, shall be not less than 30 feet wide.
Aisles providing access to units on only one side of the aisle shall be not less than 20 feet wide, provided that there is more than one aisle available for circulation around a building. If there is only one aisle, the aisle shall be not less than 30 feet wide.
All aisles and surfaces available to vehicles shall be provided with asphaltic or concrete surfacing in accordance with specifications approved by the Township.
There shall be no outdoor storage and no storage of hazardous, toxic or volatile substances.
The maximum percent of the zoning lot area covered by buildings shall be 55%.
Other uses similar to those listed above.
Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.