Air freight transportation facilities.

Automobile or vehicle repair establishments, subject to the following requirements:

Boat and RV sales, storage and maintenance.

Building/home improvement contractors, including office, showroom, storage and outdoor storage yards.

Business services (mailing, copying, data processing, telecommunications, etc.).

Convenience stores of up to 5,000 square feet.

Dry cleaner dropoff stations.

General offices, corporate offices and aviation-related offices.

Government offices and facilities, including storage yards for government vehicles, and public works maintenance equipment and facilities for law enforcement, customs, homeland security, and emergency services training.

Hotels, motels, bed-and-breakfast inns, restaurants without drive-through, parking lots, automobile rental, or other similar nonaviation businesses directly related to the development, improvement, maintenance and operation of the airport and mixed-use industrial park.

Indoor commercial or self-storage, including boat storage.

The manufacturing, compounding, assembling, fabricating, processing, heat treating, coating, bonding, packaging or improving of the following products using previously prepared materials within a completely enclosed building:

Medical centers and urgent-care facilities.

Printing, publishing and allied industries.

Recreational facilities, including health and fitness clubs, ice arenas, racquet sport courts, other indoor recreational facilities, outdoor athletic fields and parks.

Research, design, and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building.

Tool and equipment rental, including vehicles or trailers; provided any outdoor storage shall require special land use approval under Subsection C for outdoor sales or storage.

Trade or industrial schools, training facilities and conference centers, including schools for pilots, aircraft maintenance and operations.

Warehousing and wholesale establishments, storage and transfer facilities with a total usable floor area of not more than 200,000 square feet. A floor area greater than 200,000 square feet shall require a special land use permit.

Essential services.

Other uses similar to the above uses not specifically addressed elsewhere in this chapter, as determined by the Planning Commission following the process outlined in Article 19.

Accessory buildings and uses which are customarily incidental to the principal use on the lot, subject to the same required conditions that are applicable to the principal uses.

Accessory use or storage of hazardous materials. When total quantities of hazardous materials on site will equal or exceed 200 gallons, documentation for the following shall be included with the site plan application, with appropriate correspondence from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Michigan State Police, Fire Marshal and Grosse Ile Township Fire Department:

Accessory outdoor storage shall be permitted as accessory to a permitted use, subject to the following requirements:

Central dry-cleaning plants.

Electric power stations, heating plants and major telecommunication facilities that do not include structures that exceed the permitted building height.

Freezer locker plants and cold storage.

Kennels, subject to the following conditions:

Outdoor sales or storage, which may include building/lumber supplies, greenhouses, landscaping/nursery stock, outdoor commercial and self storage and outdoor storage of equipment or materials accessory to a principal use that occupies a greater area than allowed by § 285-9.3B(3), above (i.e., outdoor storage area that is more than 25% of the area of the building), subject to the following conditions:

Municipal recycling centers, subject to the following conditions:

Senior citizen congregate housing and assisted-living facilities.

Stamping plants, subject to providing design and operational details with the special land use application that demonstrate that the type of equipment and sound insulation measures shall comply with the industrial performance standards of § 285-9.6. Noise reduction measures shall detail proposed soundproofing or sound insulation schemes, such as acoustical enclosures, soundproofing, acoustical wall panels, ceiling baffles and exhaust fan noise control.

Warehousing and wholesale establishments, storage and transfer facilities with a total usable floor area of more than 200,000 square feet. The special land use application shall include a traffic impact study that demonstrates that the truck and automobile traffic will be within the capacity of the local roads and bridges.

Other uses similar to the above uses not specifically addressed elsewhere in this chapter, as determined by the Planning Commission following the process outlined in Article 19.

Chemicals and allied products manufacturing.

Concrete and asphalt production.

Extractive uses, such as sand and gravel mining, but not including excavation associated with construction of an approved development.

Food processing, including meat, dairy, canned and preserved fruits and vegetables, grain mill, bakery, sugar and confectionery, fats and oils and beverage products.

Petroleum refining and related industries.

Primary metal industries, including iron and steel foundries, smelting and refining of nonferrous metals.

Primary rubber and plastics manufacturing.

Salvage yard, junk yard, waste disposal, transfer stations, waste disposal, processing, storage, transfer or treatment facilities (hazardous and nonhazardous), except recycling centers within an enclosed building.

Sawmills and planning mills, and paper and allied products.

Stock yards or slaughtering houses.

The processing of raw materials for shipment in bulk form to be used in an industrial operation at a different location.

Any use that has the potential to attract large numbers of wildlife or birds, which could be hazardous to the airport operations.

Other uses similar to the above uses not specifically permitted elsewhere in this chapter or not found to be permitted as similar to other uses, as determined by the Planning Commission following the process outlined in Article 19.

All uses on the Airport property on the south side of Groh Road shall have access to the system of service roads that interconnect the airport, including the service road along the south side of Groh Road. The Planning Commission may permit direct driveway access to Groh Road where the access point is adequately spaced from other existing driveways in accordance with the Township Roads and Driveways Ordinance[1] and the driveway is approved by Wayne County.

All uses on the Airport Commerce Park property on the north side of Groh Road and west side of Meridian Road shall have access to the system of internal roads within the Airport Commerce Park. The Planning Commission may permit direct driveway access to Groh Road where the access point is adequately spaced from other existing driveways in accordance with the Township Roads and Driveways Ordinance and the driveway is approved by Wayne County.

In no case shall an A-1 Airport and Light Industrial District use have direct access to a local residential street.

All roads, and service drives shall be concrete or asphalt, and be designed and constructed in accordance with the Township Roads and Driveways Ordinance and the standards of the Wayne County Department of Public Services and the Township Engineer. The road width requirements may be reduced for roads and service drives on the Airport and the Airport Commerce Park property to no less than 24 feet, measured back to back of curb. For boulevards, the roadways on each side of the median shall be no less than 20 feet, measured back to back of curb. Turning radii at all driveways and intersections shall be a minimum of 30 feet to accommodate trucks.

Metal siding with permanent finish may be used in exterior wall application when utilized in conjunction with brick, split face or scored concrete block or other similar material, as approved by the Planning Commission.

The walls of the building, facing Groh Road, Midway or Intrepid shall consist of at least 75% brick, split face or scored concrete block or other similar material, excluding the facade area of any door or widows.

Metal siding shall only be utilized on the upper portion of the building facade facing the streets noted in Subsection D(2) above, but may be utilized for all of the side and rear facades not facing a street noted in Subsection D(2) above.

All exterior heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical or other utility service or accessory equipment shall be located or screened not to be visible from any adjacent site or public road right-of-way.

Greenbelts along all abutting roads shall meet the following requirements, which apply in lieu of the requirements of § 285-13.3B:

In order to provide protective screening and buffers between abutting land uses, a landscaped buffer zone shall be provided between uses in accordance with the following. Table 9.4.E(3)(a) identifies where and what type of buffer is required between land uses. Table 9.4.E(3)(b) details the minimum landscape elements that must be included in each type of buffer zone. The following requirements are in lieu of the requirements of § 285-13.3C. Any site that is along the perimeter of the A-1 District (not including roads) shall be required to provide Buffer Zone A along the perimeter of the zoning district. Buffer zone landscaping is not required for the runway areas and clear zones of the airport.

Off-street parking shall be landscaped with one landscape island and one tree for every 10 parking spaces, except that parking located within the rear yard shall be exempt from the parking lot landscaping requirements.

Landscaping shall comply with all specifications and requirements of § 285-13.4.

In addition to the standards contained in § 285-13.3J, Modification of landscape requirements, the Planning Commission may also reduce or modify the landscape requirements contained in Article 13, based upon a determination that the required landscaping will encroach into runway approach, transitional, horizontal, and conical zones, obscure navigational lighting or otherwise interfere with airport operations. Areas within the fenced area of the airport runway primary surface, clear zones, taxiways and hangars are specifically exempt from landscaping requirements.

The minimum lot area shall be based on the requirements for parking, landscaping, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, and conditions set forth herein, unless otherwise specified.

Setbacks shall be determined by the site's road frontage as indicated in Table 9.5.B and the following figure:

Greater spacing shall be provided between buildings where required by the buffering between land uses under § 285-9.4E(2).

Natural feature setback shall be maintained in relation to the ordinary high-water mark of any pond, river or channel, and to the edge of any drainageway or regulated wetland. Only waterfront structures and appurtenances, as permitted in Article 17, Waterfront Provisions, may be located within the natural feature setback. This setback may be reduced by the Planning Commission upon a determination that it is clearly in the public interest. In determining whether the setback reduction is in the public interest, the benefit which would reasonably be expected to accrue from the proposed development shall be balanced against the reasonably foreseeable detriments to the natural feature. The following general criteria shall be applied in undertaking this balancing test:

The fifty-percent maximum lot coverage may be increased by the Planning Commission upon submission and approval of a complete landscape plan that provides at least 1 1/2 times the required amount of greenbelt and buffer zone landscaping as required under § 285-13.3B and C.

The floor area ratio is derived by dividing the total building floor area of a building by the zoning lot area.

All new construction or alteration to existing structures shall be required to submit a notice of proposed construction or alteration to the Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in accordance with the requirements of federal regulations. The maximum height of any structure shall be 55 feet, provided that this maximum allowable height may be reduced if required by the FAA.

Noise shall not become objectionable due to intermittence, beat, frequency, or shrillness and shall not exceed the maximum sound pressure levels prescribed below, as measured at the street or property line:

A sound level meter and an octave band analyzer shall be used to measure the level and frequency of the sound or noise during the day and/or the night. Sounds of very short duration, which cannot be measured accurately with the sound level meter, shall be measured by an impact noise analyzer.

Objectionable sounds, of an intermittent nature or characterized by high frequencies, even if falling below the specified decibel levels, shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses.

The Township is hereby empowered to require the owner or operator of the use in question to submit such data and evidence as may be deemed essential to permit an objective determination of a violation of performance standards. Failure to submit data required shall constitute grounds for denying a permit for that use of land. With any application for a site plan approval from the Planning Commission for any use that has the potential to exceed the noise or vibration limits of this section, the following information shall be provided with the site plan application:

Compliance with the performance standards shall be required as a condition of approval for that use. Any violation of the performance standards of this section shall be considered a violation of this chapter under Article 20.

Where determinations can reasonably be made by the Community Development Department, using equipment and personnel normally available to the Township or obtainable without extraordinary expense, such determinations shall be so made before notice of violation is issued. Where determination of violation of performance standards will likely entail the use of highly skilled personnel and expensive or unusual instrumentation not ordinarily available to the Township and when, in the considered judgment of the Community Development Department a violation exists, costs of the determinations will be charged against those responsible in addition to such other penalties as may be appropriate.