The I district is intended to accommodate industrial uses, as well as those uses directly serving industrial uses, which generate a minimum of noise, glare, odors, dust, vibration, air pollution, fire and safety hazards and emit no potentially harmful or obnoxious matter or radiation. In order to provide a district in which the above uses may flourish without fear of intrusion of incompatible activities and to provide the proper safeguards for the highest type of industrial development consistent with the desires and needs of the Village of Fowlerville, the specific intent of this chapter is as follows:

1.

To encourage the establishment in this district of all industrial activities which meet the requirements and the intent of this chapter.

2.

To prohibit, for the benefit of the types of uses for which this district is designed, any and all other uses, such as residential and retail commercial, as well as industrial not compatible with all other uses in this district.

3.

To encourage the discontinuance of uses presently existing in the district which are nonconforming by virtue of the type of use.

4.

To encourage compliance with the requirements and the intent of this section by uses presently located in the district which are nonconforming by virtue of not complying with any of the applicable requirements or provisions specified in this chapter.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1601, 6-19-2000)

In the I district, no building, structure, or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, structurally altered, or enlarged except for the following uses:

1.

Production, processing, cleaning, testing, repair, storage, and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs, and products not involving a retail activity on the lot, all of which uses shall comply with the requirements specified in this ordinance.

2.

Contractor offices and shops such as buildings, cement, electrical, heating, air conditioning, masonry, painting, plumbing and roofing.

3.

Truck terminal.

4.

Railroad right-of-way, including all necessary tracks, switches, operating devices, storage, marshaling yards, freight yards or sidings.

5.

Accessory uses clearly appurtenant to the main use of the lot and customary to and commonly associated with the main use, such as:

a.

Incidental offices for management and materials control.

b.

On-premises child care facilities for employees.

c.

Restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees.

d.

Identification signs referring to the principal activities performed on the premises or to the person or firm performing these activities.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1602, 6-19-2000)

The following uses may be permitted subject to the granting of a special use permit, pursuant to the requirements noted in chapter 23:

1.

Ministorage and/or warehouses.

2.

Motor vehicle major repair station.

3.

Junk/salvage yards.

4.

Sewage treatment.

5.

Public utility transformer stations and substations, public utility gas regulator stations, utility pumping stations, and water towers.

6.

Fuel dealers, including bulk storage of flammable and combustible materials.

7.

Commercial transmitting and receiving towers.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1603, 6-19-2000)

Any application for a land use permit for a use in the I district shall be accompanied by all information required in this section, including a written statement, submitted and signed by the applicant, certifying that the proposed use will be operated in complete conformance with the use requirements below and the standards of section 608, whichever is more restrictive.

1.

Activities in the I district shall be carried on in completely enclosed buildings. Storage may be permitted out-of-doors, but shall be effectively screened by a solid, uniformly finished wall or fence with solid entrance and exit gates, such wall or fence shall in no case be lower than the storage enclosed.

2.

Noise emanating from a use in this district shall not exceed the level of ordinary conversation at the boundaries of the lot. Short intermittent noise peaks may be excepted if they do not exceed normal traffic noise peaks at any point on the lot boundaries.

3.

Uses in this district shall be such that they:

a.

Emit no obnoxious, toxic, or corrosive fumes or gases except for those produced by internal combustion engines under design operating conditions.

b.

Emit no odorous gases or other odorous matter in such quantities as to be perceptible at or beyond any point on the lot boundaries, provided that any process which may involve the creation or emission of any odors shall be provided with a secondary safeguard system, so that control will be maintained if the primary safeguard system should fail.

c.

Emit no smoke greater than that emitted by properly operating domestic heating equipment.

d.

Discharge into the air no dust or other particulate matter created by any industrial operation and/or emanating from any products stored prior to subsequent to processing.

e.

Produce no heat and/or glare humanly perceptible at or beyond the lot boundaries.

f.

All lighting shall be so shaded, shielded or directed that the light intensity or brightness will not be objectionable beyond the line of the lot on which it is located.

g.

Produce no physical vibrations humanly perceptible at or beyond the lot boundaries.

h.

Produce no electromagnetic radiation or radioactive emission injurious to human beings, animals or vegetation, or of an intensity that interferes with the lawful use of any other property.

i.

Do not engage in the production or storage of any material designed for use as an explosive nor in the use of such material in production.

j.

Do not by their particular location interfere with the function of residential streets through generation of nonresidential traffic.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1604, 6-19-2000)

In the I district, the following minimum requirements shall apply:

1.

Minimum lot area. Two and one-half acres.

2.

Minimum lot width. Two hundred fifty feet.

3.

Minimum front yard depth. Fifty (50) feet as measured from the street right-of-way. The front yard shall not be used for loading, storage, or accessory structures.

4.

Minimum side yard width. None, except where the use adjoins a residential use. In such case, the side yard shall be landscaped according to provisions in chapter 19. This setback shall be maintained as a natural buffer area and building of structures and parking of vehicles is prohibited.

5.

Minimum rear yard depth. None, except when the use adjoins a residential use. In such case, the side yard shall be landscaped according to provisions in chapter 19. This setback shall be maintained as a natural buffer area and building of structures and parking of vehicles is prohibited.

6.

Height of structure. Maximum of two stories or 40 feet is permitted.

7.

Fences and buffers. The buffer requirements of this ordinance shall be met.

8.

Maximum lot coverage. No lot shall be occupied by buildings or structures covering more than 50 percent of the lot.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1605, 6-19-2000; Ord. No. 373, § 1, 1-24-2005)

See chapter 20.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1606, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 21.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1607, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 24.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1608, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 19.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1609, 6-19-2000)

See section 2004.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1610, 6-19-2000)