This district is intended for intensive industrial activity, including manufacturing, processing, assembly, and packing. It is also intended to permit related businesses and services while prohibiting retail sales, residential dwellings, and other incompatible uses. This District is designed to promote high quality industrial development through the use of industrial performance standards and other regulations contained herein.

Land and/or buildings in this District may be used for the following purposes by right:

A.

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treating, and assembly from previously prepared materials in the production of:

(1)

Food products, including meat, dairy, fruit, vegetable, seafood, grain, bakery, confectionery, beverage, and kindred foods.

(2)

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

(3)

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

(4)

Lumber and wood products including millwork, prefabricated structural wood products, and containers.

(5)

Furniture and fixtures.

(6)

Paperboard containers, building paper, building board, and bookbinding.

(7)

Printing and publishing.

(8)

Manufacturing of engineering, measuring, optic, medical, lenses, photographic, and similar instruments.

(9)

Jewelry, silverware, toys, athletic, office and tobacco goods, musical instruments, signs and displays, and similar manufacturing.

B.

Wholesale establishments including automotive equipment, drugs, chemicals, dry goods, apparel, food, farm products, electrical goods, hardware, machinery, equipment, metals, paper products and furnishings, and lumber and building products.

C.

Warehouses, cartage businesses.

D.

Research establishments, laboratories.

E.

Contractors (yards) and building materials (storage).

F.

Trade and industrial technology schools.

G.

Central dry cleaning plant.

H.

Municipal buildings, public service buildings.

I.

Electricity regulating substation, and pressure control station for gas, water, and sewage.

J.

Mini warehouse storage.

K.

Other uses similar to those listed above.

L.

Accessory buildings and uses.

The following uses shall be permitted when applicable standards and requirements of Chapter 21 are met:

A.

Waste treatment facilities.

B.

Water supply and treatment facilities.

C.

Waste disposal facilities.

D.

Airports and landing fields.

E.

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treating, assembly, and bulk storage of:

(1)

Chemical products, such as plastics, perfumes, synthetics, fibers, drugs, soaps, detergents, paints, enamels, wood chemical, agricultural, and allied chemicals.

(2)

Rubber manufacturing or reclaiming, such as tires, rubbish, and footwear.

(3)

Stone clay, glass, cement, brick, pottery, abrasive, tiles, and related products.

(4)

Fabricated metal manufactured, including engines, electrical equipment, transportation equipment, metal stamping, plating, polishing and buffing, wire products, and structural metals.

F.

Pulp and paper manufacturing.

G.

Junk and salvage yards.

H.

Mining, processing, and transporting of stone, sand, or gravel aggregate.

I.

Sexually-Oriented Businesses.

J.

Lumber and planing mills.

K.

Outdoor storage, display and sale of farm implements and construction equipment.

L.

Production, refining and storage of petroleum or other flammable products.

M.

Outdoor storage yards accessory to any permitted use.

N.

Wireless communication towers.

O.

Child care centers.

P.

Planned unit development (PUD) when all applicable standards of Chapter 18 are met.

Q.

Medical marihuana facilities (excluding medical marihuana provisioning centers and medical marihuana secure transporters).

R.

Recycling of materials or goods, or collating, handling, sorting, or packaging of materials for recycling.

(Ord. No. 2021-03, art. 3, 6-14-2021; Ord. No. 2024-04, § 8, 11-11-2024)

The requirements for lot area, yard, height, and other dimensions, as specified in the Schedule of Regulations shall be met for every structure and land use.

See Chapter 22.

See Chapter 7.

See Chapter 5.

See Chapter 6.

Before the issuance of any building permit in this District; the applicant shall sign an agreement that the use of the property will meet the following performance standards, or that any violation of these standards in subsequent operations will be corrected, the costs of inspection by experts for compliance to be borne by the applicant.

A.

Fire and Explosion Hazards: All activities shall be carried on only in buildings conforming to the building code, and the operation shall be carried on in such a manner and with such precaution against fire and explosion hazards as to produce no explosion hazards as determined by the Michigan Department of Labor to a use on adjacent property. Flammable liquids other than fuels used for heating shall be stored in an entirely enclosed building which shall be used for no other purpose, or in underground tanks provided:

(1)

Said storage building is not closer than one hundred feet (100') to any building occupied by one (1) or more persons.

(2)

Every factory or manufacturing building or other buildings permitted only in the industrial area shall be equipped with automatic sprinklers or other automatic fire extinguisher approved by the Zoning Administrator and the chief of the fire department as being sufficient in view of the nature and extent of the fire risk.

B.

Smoke, Fumes, Gases, Dust, Odors: There shall be no emission of any smoke, atomic radiation, fumes, gas, dust, odors, or any other atmospheric pollutant which will disseminate beyond the boundaries of the lot occupied by such use in a manner as to create a public nuisance.

C.

Liquid or Solid Waste: The discharge of untreated industrial waste into a reservoir, pond, or river is prohibited. All methods of salvage and industrial waste treatment and disposal shall be approved by the City, County and State Health Departments. No effluent shall contain any acids, oils, dust, toxic metals, corrosives, or other toxic substances in solution or suspension which would create odors, or discolor, poison, or otherwise pollute in any way.

D.

Vibration: There shall be no vibration which is discernible to the human senses beyond the property line of the site on which such use is conducted.

E.

Noise: There shall be no noise emanating from the operation which will be more audible beyond the boundaries of the site than the volume of traffic noise on the nearest adjacent street.

F.

Glare: There shall be no direct or sky-reflected glare exceeding one and one-half foot (1-1/2') candles or which would be damaging to the human eye measured at the property line of the lot occupied by such use. This regulation shall not apply to lights used at the entrance or exit of service drives leading to a parking lot. Exterior lighting sources shall be directed away from any neighboring Residential District.

G.

Automatic Screw Machine: No such machine shall be located closer than three hundred feet (300') to any Residential District.

H.

Stamping Machines, Punch Presses, and Press Brakes: All such machinery shall be mounted on shock absorbing materials and on reinforced concrete. No such machinery shall be located closer than five hundred feet (500') to any Residential District.