Sec. 9.1. This District is intended primarily for general and intensive industrial uses.

Sec. 9.2. Land, buildings and structures in this District may be used for the following purposes only:

(a)

Warehousing, storage, transfer buildings, including storage of bulk petroleum products in above ground tanks

(b)

Truck terminals including maintenance and service facilities.

(c)

Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, treating, and assembling of goods in the production of:

a.

Food products, including meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables, seafood, grain, confectionaries, beverages and kindred food products.

b.

Textile mill products, including woven fabric, knit goods, dying and finishing, floor coverings, yarn and thread and other textile goods.

c.

Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics, leather, fur, canvas, and similar materials.

d.

Lumber and wood products, including millwork, prefabricated structural wood products and containers, not including logging.

e.

Furniture and fixtures

f.

Paperboard containers, building paper, building board and bookbinding.

g.

Printing and publishing.

h.

Chemical products such as plastics, perfume, and synthetic fibers.

i.

Manufacture of engineering, optical, measuring, medical, lenses, photographic equipment, and similar instruments.

j.

Manufacture of jewelry, silverware, toys, athletic, office, tobacco goods, musical instruments, signs, displays, and similar products.

(d)

Wholesale establishments, including but not limited to, automotive parts, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, dry goods, apparel, food, farm products, electrical goods, hardware, machinery, equipment, metals, paper products, furnishings, lumber, and building products.

(e)

Research and development establishments, including testing and experimental laboratories.

(f)

Essential service buildings and uses.

(g)

Trade and Industrial schools.

(h)

Tool and die manufacturing establishments

(i)

Central dry-cleaning plants.

(j)

Mini-warehouses.

(k)

General fabrication and assembly operations.

(l)

Accessory uses common to those uses permitted under this article, including parking and loading areas, offices, material equipment storage areas, when enclosed and not visible from adjoining properties, living quarters for caretakers or watchmen.

Sec. 9.3. The following may be permitted as special land uses subject to the requirements of the Chapter [the special land use chapter]:

(a)

Retail sales incidental to any permitted use in the District.

(b)

Neighborhood shopping center.

(c)

Gasoline fueling station.

(d)

Commercial garage.

(e)

Banks, credit unions, savings banks, any other money lender establishments.

(f)

Restaurants

(g)

Extractive use.

(h)

Landfills of all classes as regulated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, including sanitary landfills for deposit of refuse, garbage, or hazardous solids or liquids.

(i)

Incinerators intended for burning of any waste material or refuse.

(j)

Any industrial use not expressly included as a principal permitted use.

(k)

Open storage of any material.

(l)

Junkyards, recycling stations, and salvage yards.

(m)

Small Wind Turbine Generator, Large Wind Turbine Generator, or Wind Energy Harvest Site. A small wind turbine generator, a large wind turbine generator, or a wind harvest energy site may be approved by the Planning Commission as a special land use, upon compliance with all the conditions stated in Subsection C of Section 11.4 of this Ordinance.

(n)

Solar Energy Systems.

(Ord. No. 03-50, § 3, 4-3-2003; Ord. No. 11-50, § 5, 8-11-2011; Ord. No. 01-2017-O, § 3, 1-12-2017)

Sec. 9.4. The following are standards for site development in the Industrial District.

(a)

Parking shall be provided in accordance with the Requirements of Chapter 16.

(b)

Signs shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Section 3.19.

(c)

All applicable requirements of Schedules B and C shall be met.

(d)

Compliance with Flood Plain requirements is mandatory.

(e)

Site plan review in accordance with Chapter 12.

(f)

Accessory buildings and structures shall comply with the regulations contained in Section 3.11. and Schedule F.

Sec. 9.5. The following are operational requirements for the Industrial District.

(a)

Uses permitted in this District shall be conducted in completely enclosed buildings, except that outdoor storage yards shall be completely enclosed by a solid fence or masonry wall not less than four (4) feet nor greater than eight (8) feet in height, with solid gates at points of entrance and exit.

(b)

Noise emanating from a use permitted in this District shall not exceed the level of average street noise on abutting streets, roads, avenues, boulevards, or interstate highways.

(c)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they emit no gas which is deleterious to the public health, safety, or welfare, or corrosive to structures, except for those produced by external combustion engines under designed operating conditions.

(d)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they emit no odors be them gasses or other odorous materials in such quantities as to be humanly perceptible at or beyond the boundaries of the property.

(e)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they emit no smoke or particulates, other than that produced by normally operating heating equipment, in excess of State of Michigan air quality standards.

(f)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they produce no glare or heat humanly perceptible at or beyond the boundaries of the property.

(g)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they do not discharge into the air dust or other particulate matter created by any industrial operation or emanating from any products or materials stored on the premises.

(h)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they do not produce vibrations humanly perceptible at or beyond the boundaries of the property.

(i)

Uses in this District shall be conducted so that they do not produce electromagnetic radiation or radioactive emissions injurious to human beings, animals, or vegetation, or which exceed quantities established by the U.S. Department of Energy or the Environmental Protection Agency.

(j)

Uses in this District shall not engage in the production or storage of any materials designated as explosives.

(k)

Uses in this District shall provide for the treatment and disposal of wastewater and industrial waste, tailings, or unusable by-products so that there is no danger to the public health and safety. And, that there be no pollution of water bodies. In all cases where possible public wastewater facilities shall be utilized.

Sec. 9.6. Refer to Schedule B.

Sec. 9.7. Refer to Schedule B.

Sec. 9.8. Refer to Schedule B.

Sec. 9.9. Refer to Schedule B and C.

Sec. 9.10. Refer to Schedule B.