Egelston Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIV
C-2 Commercial District
§ 450-1401 Purpose.
The C-2 Commercial District is designed to permit commercial activities involving larger installations and also involving wholesale and other commercial uses which relate to the industrial community as well as retail and consumer sales uses. It is intended that such uses be clustered rather than constructed in strip developments along thoroughfares.
§ 450-1402 Permitted principal uses.
[Amended 7-5-2005; 4-16-2018; 11-20-2023; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
Following are the principal permitted uses for the C-2 Commercial Districts:
Any use permitted in the C-1 Commercial District as a principal permitted use.
Outdoor theaters.
Golf driving ranges and miniature golf courses.
Hotel and motels.
Gasoline filling stations and public garages.
Any large commercial use not involving manufacturing, warehousing or preparation on the premises.
Shopping centers and shopping malls.
Storage facilities for private residential personal property, designed with separated and distinct units (without access between units), not adaptable for commercial or industrial warehousing.
Wireless communication antenna, with site plan.
§ 450-1403 Site plan submission.
No permitted principal use shall be commenced, erected, constructed or allowed unless site plan review and approval has occurred. The Planning Commission shall have the right to approve all setbacks, minimum of floor space requirements, and locations of all buildings and improvements, provided that setbacks shall be at least the same as those required in the C-1 commercial district. No buildings or improvements shall be allowed, except essential services, in any setback, side yard or rear yard in C-2 Commercial Districts.
§ 450-1404 Special land uses.
[Amended 6-16-2003; 7-18-2005; 12-7-2015; 11-20-2023]
Following are the special land uses for the C-2 Commercial Districts:
Any principal permitted use or any commercial use involving outdoor sales of merchandise is a special land use and must be approved as such by the Planning Commission. This includes sales lots for vehicles, mobile homes, boats, recreational equipment and similar uses.
All special land uses permitted in C-1 Commercial Districts are, unless designated principal permitted uses herein, also allowed as special land uses in C-2 Commercial Districts.
C-2 Commercial Zones in this Township may also include, as special land uses, light assembly or fabricating businesses which assemble premanufactured parts or materials by processes performed manually or with small hand tools or fixtures and light capacity conveyors. Such uses shall not be performed out of doors. In determining whether to grant a special land use, the Planning Board shall determine that the proposed use is compatible with commercial uses surrounding the proposed use and with commercial uses intended by this article, and may impose reasonable conditions to accomplish said compatibility.
Sexually oriented businesses as allowed by ordinances.
Wireless communications facilities.
Public carrier, private transportation, railroad or other terminals.
A medical marihuana provisioning center and secure transporter pursuant to the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act and an adult-use marihuana retailer and secure transporter pursuant to the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act.
§ 450-1405 Space requirement, general.
When the majority of buildings built on one side of the street between two intersection streets at the time of the passage of this chapter have been built with a minimum setback different from that required by this chapter, no building hereafter erected or altered shall project beyond the minimum resulting setback so established. No accessory building shall be located in a side yard, the side yard distance being mandatory and not including accessory buildings.
§ 450-1406 Height limitations.
No structure or building shall be erected which exceeds 3 1/2 stories, or 40 feet in height.