The multiple-family district is intended to be the highest density residential district that allows multiple-family dwellings along with other residentially related facilities which serve the residents of the district.

In a multiple-family residential district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this ordinance:

1.

Two-family dwellings.

2.

Multiple-family dwellings.

3.

Housing for the elderly.

4.

Essential public services.

5.

Public open space.

6.

Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.

The following uses are considered special land uses within the district and may be approved by the planning commission [now planning board—see Charter § 5-201], subject to the applicable general and specific standards in article 11:

1.

Child care services.

2.

Foster care homes.

3.

Public and semipublic institution buildings, structures and uses, and public parks.

4.

State-licensed residential care facilities.

5.

Essential public service buildings.

6.

Primary and secondary schools (either public or private) providing general educational instruction as defined by Michigan Statues.

7.

Colleges.

8.

Home occupations.

9.

Churches.

10.

Bed and breakfast inns.

11.

Accessory buildings, structures and uses customarily incidental to any of the above special land uses.

(Ord. No. 305, 12-10-1996; Ord. No. 306, 3-11-1997)

1.

Schedule of regulations - article 3.

2.

Site plan review standards - article 12.

3.

Parking and loading-unloading standards - article 13.

4.

Sign standards - article 14.

5.

Landscaping and screening standards - article 16.