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Fennville City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 13

E Enterprise District

§ 450-1301 Statement of purpose.

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Purpose and intent. The purpose of the Enterprise District is to establish a zone where designated industrial and commercial businesses may locate and intermingle, which produce a minimum amount of adverse effects on adjoining premises, are compatible with one another, and do not require large land or building areas for operation nor large yard areas for isolation or protection from adjoining premises or activities. Further, the Enterprise District is intended to serve the highway and comparison-shopping needs of the residents of the greater region as well as the passing motorist. It is characterized by businesses with higher customer traffic, extended hours, and access to regional thoroughfares.

§ 450-1302 Principal permitted uses.

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In the Enterprise District, no uses shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except the following:
(1) 
Appliance repair and sales.
(2) 
Artisan/maker spaces.
(3) 
Banquet halls and meeting halls/event centers and facilities.
(4) 
Bars, taverns, and pubs.
(5) 
Bottling works, including milk bottling or distribution station.
(6) 
Business and private schools operated within an enclosed building.
(7) 
Central laundry and dry-cleaning plants. (§ 450-1416)
(8) 
Cold storage plants.
(9) 
Commercial bakeries.
(10) 
Day care and child care facilities. (§ 450-1412)
(11) 
Facilities for the printing or forming of boxes, cartons, and other cardboard products.
(12) 
Funeral homes and mortuaries. (§ 450-1417)
(13) 
Government buildings.
(14) 
Heating, cooling, or plumbing supply shops and hardware stores.
(15) 
Hotel, motels, and motor courts. (§ 450-1419)
(16) 
Indoor recreation such as dance studios, gymnastics studios, gymnasiums, tennis courts, etc. (§ 450-1411)
(17) 
Mini-warehouse facilities. (§ 450-1420)
(18) 
Offices.
(19) 
Personal service establishments, including health spa facilities.
(20) 
Professional offices including finance, banks, insurance, real estate, engineering, accounting, medical, and dental.
(21) 
Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations, but not including storage yards, when operating requirements necessitate locating within the district to serve the immediate vicinity, and such use is not injurious to the surrounding neighborhood. (§ 450-1402)
(22) 
Publicly owned and operated parks, playfields and other recreational facilities.
(23) 
Retail establishments, conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
(24) 
Restaurants, excluding drive-thru.
(25) 
Testing and research and development laboratories.
(26) 
Tool and die shops.
(27) 
Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals. (§ 450-1428)
(28) 
Wholesale and warehousing. The sale at wholesale or warehousing of automotive equipment, alcoholic beverages, dry goods and apparel, groceries and related products, raw farm products except meat and poultry, electrical goods, hardware, plumbing, heating equipment and supplies, machinery and equipment, tobacco and tobacco products, furniture and home furnishings, and any commodity the manufacture of which is permitted in this district.
(29) 
Other uses as deemed similar to those listed above, by the City Zoning Administrator or their designee.

§ 450-1303 Accessory uses.

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In the Enterprise District, no accessory uses shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except the following:
(1) 
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above principal permitted uses.

§ 450-1304 Special land uses.

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In the Enterprise District, no special land uses shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except the following:
(1) 
Automobile, boat, RV, and other similar vehicle dealerships and sales (new and used). (§ 450-1404)
(2) 
Automobile disposal and junkyards. (§ 450-1406)
(3) 
Automobile gasoline service stations and automobile (car) wash establishments. (§ 450-1408)
(4) 
Automobile repair shops. (§ 450-1405)
(5) 
Breweries, wineries, and distilleries, with or without food on premises.
(6) 
Building material storage yards.
(7) 
Cemeteries.
(8) 
Commercial and service establishments of an adult nature. (§ 450-1403)
(9) 
Contractors' storage yards. (§ 450-1413)
(10) 
Crematoriums.
(11) 
Dry cleaning establishments. (§ 450-1416)
(12) 
Establishments which assemble and manufacture automobiles, automobile bodies, parts and accessories, electrical fixtures, batteries, and other electrical apparatuses and hardware.
(13) 
Establishments which process, refine, or store food and foodstuffs.
(14) 
Hospitals. (§ 450-1418)
(15) 
Machine shops, metal buffing shops, plastering and polishing shops, metal and plastic molding shops, extrusion shops, lumber and planning mills, painting and sheet metal shops, undercoating and rust proofing shops and welding shops.
(16) 
Manufacturing facilities.
(17) 
Marihuana establishments and facilities. (§ 450-1422)
(18) 
Municipal sewage treatment plants.
(19) 
Office parks (two or more structures) and/or planned industrial parks. (§ 450-1421 and § 450-1423)
(20) 
Radio, television, windmill towers, and wireless communication facilities. (§ 450-1429)
(21) 
Restaurants, drive-in and drive-thru. (§ 450-1414 and § 450-1415)
(22) 
Transportation and logistics.
(23) 
Truck terminals.
(24) 
Wireless communications facilities. (§ 450-1429)
(25) 
Other uses similar to those listed above, as deemed by the City Zoning Administrator or their designee.

§ 450-1305 Compliance with county and state regulations.

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Compliance required. Permitted uses and special land uses must comply with applicable county and state health regulations, all pollution laws, and federal regulations. All required county and state approvals may be required before final site plan approval or before an occupancy permit is issued.

§ 450-1306 Site plan review.

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Site plan approval required. For all permitted uses, accessory uses and uses subject to a special use permit, a site plan shall be submitted in accordance with Article 19.

§ 450-1307 Area, height, bulk and placement requirements.

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No building or structure, nor enlargement of any building or structure, shall hereafter be constructed or placed unless the following requirements are met and maintained for any building, structure or enlargement.
The table below includes the Schedule of Regulations for all developments in the E District. Unless otherwise specified, the requirements below shall be considered as the minimum necessary to achieve compliance.
Schedule of Regulations
Front yards
25 feet
Side yards
20 feet
Rear yards
20 feet
Maximum lot coverage
55%
Building height
50 feet
Minimum lot area
15,000 square feet
Minimum lot width
100 feet

§ 450-1308 Performance standards.

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Before the issuance of any building or occupancy permit in this district, the applicant shall comply with an agreement that the use of the property will meet the following performance standards, or that any violation of these standards in subsequent operations will be corrected. The costs of inspection by experts for compliance will be borne by the applicant.
(1) 
Open storage. All storage of building, contracting, or plumbing materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, equipment, and other supplies shall be located within an area not closer than 150 feet from any street right-of-way line. The storage of lumber, coal, or other combustible material shall not be less than 20 feet from any interior lot line, and a roadway shall be provided, graded, surfaced, and maintained from the street to the rear of the property to permit free access of fire trucks at any time. All such open storage shall be screened from all streets, and on all sides, which abut any residential use or district, including mixed-use buildings, by a solid six-foot wall or fence sufficient to serve as a permanent retaining wall or fence.
(2) 
Smoke, fumes, gas, dust, and odors. There shall be no emission of any smoke, atomic radiation, fumes, gas, dust, odors, or any other atmospheric pollutant which will disseminate beyond the boundaries of the lot occupied by such use in such a manner as to create a public nuisance.
(3) 
Liquid or solid waste. The discharge of untreated industrial waste is prohibited. All methods of salvage, industrial waste treatment, and disposal are subject to the approval of the City and Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. No effluent shall contain any acids, oils, dust, hazardous metals, corrosives or other toxic substance in solution or suspension which would create odors, discolor, poison, or otherwise pollute the water or soil in any way.
(4) 
Hazardous and critical materials. Any use where materials listed in the Michigan Critical Materials Registry are stored or used must prepare a pollution prevention plan. The exact location where all such materials are stored must be given to the Fire Chief.