Montrose Charter Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
DISTRICT I-1
§ 153.170 INTENT.
The Industrial District is designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, major repair operations, manufacturing and other industrial activities whose external, physical effects are so that it should be restricted to the area of the district and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts.
(Ord. 99, passed 11-18-1996, § 13.01)
§ 153.171 PERMITTED USES.
No structure, or part thereof, shall be erected, altered, or used and no land shall be used except for 1 or more of the following:
(A) Any of the following uses when conducted whole within a completely enclosed building screened on all sides with a 6-foot fence. The fence shall be obscuring on the sides which abut districts zoned for residential use:
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments;
(2) Automobile, tractor and trucking facilities, including storage and repair;
(3) The manufacturer and compounding processing, packaging or treatment of products such as (but not limited to): bakery goods, candy, food products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, hardware and cutlery; tool, die gauge and machine shops; and dimension and pattern shops;
(4) The manufacture and compounding, assembling or treatment of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials such as (but not limited to): woods, leather, paper, plastics, cork, cloth, felt, fiber, fur, hair, yarns, feathers, textiles, tobacco, glass, bone, horn, shell, precious or semi-precious metals or stones and sheet metal or wire;
(5) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized lay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(6) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal or rubber stamps, or other molded rubber products;
(7) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs;
(8) Laboratories: experimental, film, or testing;
(9) Manufacturing and repair of electric neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves, and other products;
(10) Central dry cleaning plants or laundries provided that the plants shall not deal in a retail business; and
(11) All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards, and other related uses.
(B) Animal shelters, subject to the regulations listed in § 153.219(Y);
(C) Greenhouses;
(D) Kennels, dog, subject to the regulations listed in § 153.219(Z);
(E) Municipal uses such as water treatment plants, and reservoirs, sewage treatment plants and all other municipal buildings and uses, including outdoor storage;
(F) Research and office uses related to industrial operations;
(G) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor’s equipment and supplies, provided it is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In any I-1 District, the extent of the fence or wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. The fence or wall shall not be less than 5 feet in height and may, depending on land usage, be required to be 8 feet in height. A chain link type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of the fence, shall be considered to be an obscuring fence;
(H) Trade or industrial schools;
(I) Warehouse, storage and transfer, and electric and gas service buildings and yards; public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations; water supply and sewage disposal plants; water and gas tank holders; railroad transfer and storage tracks; railroad rights-of-way; and freight terminals; and/or
(J) Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
(Ord. 99, passed 11-18-1996, § 13.02; Am. Ord. 108, passed 11-10-1997; Am. Ord. 13-200, passed 3- 19-2013)
§ 153.172 SPECIAL LAND USES.
(A) Automobile repair facility (garage, repair);
(B) Automobile service station;
(C) Car wash establishments;
(D) Commercial solar energy systems;
(E) Express office/truck terminals;
(F) Fast food, carry-out, drive-in, and drive-through restaurants;
(G) Junk yards;
(H) Lumber and planing mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the district so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the I-1 District;
(I) Metal casting foundries, subject to appropriate measures to control the process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances to adjacent residential or business areas;
(J) Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances;
(K) Open-air business uses; businesses not conducted within a wholly enclosed building;
(L) Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities;
(M) Self-storage units;
(N) Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incidental to any of the above special land uses; and
(O) Accessory buildings, structures, and uses customarily incidental to any of the above special land uses.
(Ord. 99, passed 11-18-1996, § 13.03; Am. Ord. 148, passed 5-16-2006; Am. Ord. 18-231, passed 12-18-2018)
§ 153.173 SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
(Ord. 99, passed 11-18-1996, § 13.04)