The M-1 Light Industrial District is intended to accommodate certain industrial activities whose external effects are minimal and in no way detrimental to surrounding districts plus certain wholesale, warehousing and intensive service activities of a nature such as not to justify their inclusion in any commercial use district, but whose external effects also are non-detrimental. All uses in the district are intended to be compatible with one another. Uses in this district shall emit a minimum of smoke, dust, dirt, odor or gases, subject to the pollution standards of the State of Michigan, County of Oakland, and City of Keego Harbor. All uses located within this district shall be so designed and operated as to produce no sound or vibration discernible at the property lines in excess of the normal intensity of street or traffic noises or vibration noticeable at such points, nor any production of heat or glare noticeable at such points. Manufacturing uses in the district normally involve the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material.

The following uses shall be permitted, each of which shall meet the performance standards described in Section 11.00, and subject to any limitations described herein. All manufacturing shall be enclosed within a building.

(a)

Water supply and sewage disposal plants, water and gas tank holders and railroad transfer and storage tracks when accessory to a principal permitted use.

(b)

Attached wireless communications facilities, collocation of an attached wireless communications facility, and attached wireless communications facilities consisting of a utility pole, all subject to the standards in Article XVI.

(c)

Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, lumber, and construction contractors' equipment, subject to the following:

(1)

Such site shall (except for frontage of a public street) abut only land within an M-1 District, and all such storage shall be enclosed within a building or, on those sides abutting any public thoroughfare, shall be surrounded by an obscuring wall or fence of at least six (6) feet in height.

(d)

Automobile repair garages, painting and varnishing shops, lumber and planning mills, subject to the following:

(1)

The site for any such use shall (except for frontage on a public street) abut only land within an M-1 District.

(2)

Devices and controls adequate to meet the standards enumerated in Section 11.00 relative to sound, vibration, smoke, odor or gases shall be installed.

(3)

Adequate means of sanitary disposal of any waste material shall be provided.

(e)

Wireless communications support structures subject to the requirements specified in Article XVI.

(Ord. No. 2024-06, pt. 12, 7-17-2024)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2024-06, pt. 12, adopted July 17, 2024, repealed § 11.02, which pertained to principal uses permitted subject to special conditions and derived from the original codification.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses enumerated in Sections 11.01 and 11.02 are permitted including home occupations accessory to nonconforming residential uses subject to the provisions of Section 15.29, Home occupations.

(Ord. 377, 11/15/2001)

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Article XXIV, Schedule of Regulations.

Where the M-1 District directly abuts a single or multi-family district, the M-1 District uses constructed therein shall provide a ten-foot wide greenway in those areas where the screen wall is not required. The greenway shall be constructed in accordance with Section 15.23 of this Ordinance.

Notes to Development Standards:

(1)

Properties abutting water shall also comply with Section 15.15, Waterfront land setbacks.

(2)

Front yard setbacks are measured from the edge of the existing and/or planned right-of-way, said planned right-of-way as shown on the officially adopted Master Plan. Where a parcel or lot is at an intersection, the setback shall be measured from the maximum requirement for the district considering each side as a front yard area.