The Industrial District is a zoning district which permits a wide range of manufacturing, assembling, compounding, and treatment of articles or materials; as well as warehousing, research, and related business office uses which are compatible with one another and with surrounding land uses and with an absence of objectionable external effects. Limited service and retail support uses are also permitted along major roadways on the I Zone.

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)

(a)

All principal, accessory, and conditional uses and structures in the I district shall be subject to the area, location and height restrictions as specified in Article 35, Schedule of Zoning District Regulations.

(b)

Notwithstanding the need and desire to encourage said development within the Township, however, industrial uses shall not be unreasonably offensive, hazardous, or debilitating to surrounding property or the Township through the effects of noise, smoke, odor, dust, noxious gases, vibration, glare, heat, fire hazards, wastes or traffic. In those instances where there may be doubt regarding the effect of the operation, the Planning Commission or Township Board may require the prospective operator to demonstrate, through the use of qualified technical persons and acceptable testing techniques, that protective devices shall be utilized that will categorically ensure the compliance with appropriate regulations (i.e., Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act (MCL 408.101 et seq.), Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (MCL 324.101 et seq.), Manistee-Mason District Health Department, etc.).

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)

Land and buildings in this district may be used for the following uses only:

(a)

The manufacture, compounding, processing, packing, or treatment of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and food products.

(b)

The manufacture, compounding, assembly, or treatment of articles from the following previously prepared materials such as aluminum, bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibers, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paint, paper, paperboard, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell rubber, tin, iron, steel, tobacco, wood and yarn, food products.

(c)

Manufacturing or fabrication of products, components, devices, equipment, systems and parts, such as the following: Ceramic products; communication transmission and reception equipment; electronic processing equipment and systems; electrical appliances; electronic instruments, devices and components; automotive parts and components, glass molding, edging, beveling and silvering; graphics and art equipment; jewelry, including products from precious or semi-precious stones or metals; medical or dental equipment; metering instruments; optical devices, equipment and systems; and furniture assembly.

(d)

Printing and publishing.

(e)

Processing and packaging of agricultural products.

(f)

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

(g)

Warehouses, distribution and storage facilities including mini-warehouse and storage buildings.

(h)

Research and development facilities, including production activities.

(i)

Motor freight terminal including garaging and maintenance of equipment.

(j)

Freight forwarding packing and crating services.

(k)

Municipal buildings and public service buildings.

(l)

Grain storage and milling, feed store, storage and sales of agricultural products and similar uses.

(m)

Building contractors such as painters, plumbers, electrical, cement, heating and air conditioning, fencing, and similar uses provided that any materials or equipment kept outside shall be screened from the view of nearby properties and roadways.

(n)

Wholesale distribution and display of landscaping products such as mulch, woodchips, sod, dirt, and plant material and yard accessories.

(o)

Machine shops.

(p)

Tool and die establishments.

(q)

Park and ride lots operated by a public agency.

(r)

Automotive repair (general and major/body) including wrecker services.

(s)

Building materials and supplies (wholesale and retail).

(t)

Recreation activities, indoor.

(u)

Churches, synagogues, temples and other similar facilities to be used for public worship.

(v)

Collocated antenna, subject to the provisions of Section 109-3.29(d) herein.

(w)

Structure-mounted wind energy turbines (SMWET) and small wind energy turbines (SWET) in accordance with Article 29.

(x)

The following uses are permitted in the Industrial Zone but only on a parcel which has the required frontage on South Pere Marquette Highway:

(1)

Any generally recognized retail business that supplies commodities on the premises within a completely enclosed building, such as but not limited to foods, pharmacy, liquor, furniture, clothing, dry goods, appliances or hardware.

(2)

Professional offices for doctors, lawyers, architects, dentists, engineers, planners, chiropractors, insurance sales, mortgages, general consulting, general businesses not engaged in retail sales and other similar professions.

(3)

Motels, hotels.

(4)

Open air businesses including, but not limited to: the sale and servicing of motor vehicles including trucks, trailers, boats, farm implements, yard decorations, nursery stock, storage buildings, recreational vehicles, lawn and garden equipment, mobile or modular homes, construction equipment and similar uses per Section 109-24.26 herein.

(5)

Gasoline service stations/convenience stores with or without restaurants or drive-through vehicle wash facilities.

(6)

Drive-in businesses including banks, drive-in restaurants and other retail food establishments, dry cleaning pickup stations, pharmacies, or similar personal services.

(y)

Accessory uses and structures which are customarily incidental to any of the permitted principal uses and structures.

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)

The following uses may be permitted in the Industrial District upon authorization as a Special Land Use by the Planning Commission in accordance with the requirements of Article 24 herein:

(a)

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

(1)

Chemical products such as paint enamels, wood chemicals agricultural and allied chemicals.

(2)

Rubber manufacturing or reclaiming, such as tires, tubes, footwear.

(3)

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

(4)

Primary metal industries, including blast furnaces, steel works, foundries, smelting or refining of nonferrous metals or alloys rolling and extruding.

(5)

Fabricated metal manufacturing, including ordnance, engines, machinery, electrical equipment, metal stamping, wire products and structural metal products.

(b)

Pulp and paper manufacturing.

(c)

Heating and electric power generating plants.

(d)

Salvage yards per Section 109-24.19.

(e)

Recycling facilities per Section 109-24.24.

(f)

Slaughter house, rendering plant.

(g)

Petroleum refining, paving materials, roofing materials and other related industries.

(h)

Waste treatment facilities.

(i)

Water supply and treatment facilities.

(j)

Commercial fuel depot.

(k)

Lumberyards.

(l)

Solid waste processing facility, including composting as an incidental use.

(m)

Refuse and garbage incinerators.

(n)

Crematoriums.

(o)

Sale or rental and display of the following: temporary mobile storage units (pods) and temporary refuse collection units; fencing, pre-cast concrete products; and granite, stone or marble or similar products or raw materials.

(p)

Establishments which produce alcoholic beverages primarily for distribution off-site and which may also engage in one or more of the following as a small percentage of the overall sales of the business and which devote a small portion of the square footage of the building to the following:

(1)

The retail sale of alcoholic beverages produced on site to the general public for consumption on the site and/or on a retail take-out basis including the limited sale of snacks, pre-packaged foods, and non-alcoholic beverages;

(2)

Conducting tours for the general public of the facility;

(3)

The retail sale of items related to the company and its products such as glasses, posters, and clothing.

(q)

Wireless communications towers over 35 feet in height per Section 109-3.29.

(r)

Medium wind energy turbine(s) (MWET) and large wind energy turbine(s) (LWET) in accordance with Article 29.

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)

Parcels located within the First Street Business Park and the Pere Marquette Industrial Park are exempt from the following requirements to the extent that the following requirements are regulated by the protective covenants of these respective parks otherwise the following requirements shall control:

(a)

Dumpsters. All dumpsters and trash containers shall be located behind the front line of the main building and shall be screened from view by landscaping, fencing or placement of the building in accordance with Section 109-26.09.

(b)

Structure Façade. At least 50 percent of that portion of a building, be it a front, side, or rear, which faces a public street shall be finished with face brick, wood, vinyl, glass, tinted and/or textured masonry block, fluted cement block, cement board, natural or cast stone, architectural pre-cast panel's or stucco-like material or a combination of these materials.

In recognition of developing technologies in building materials, the Planning Commission may agree to approve other materials provided that they are compatible with surrounding properties, and further provided that such materials shall comply with the architectural, safety and other requirements of the Township Building Code.

Additions to or renovations of buildings existing as of the date of the Section shall be subject to the requirements of this section. The Planning Commission shall have the authority to modify or waive these requirements or to extend them to the entire facade of the existing building. In determining whether to apply the facade requirements of this section to additions or renovations of existing buildings, the following criteria shall be considered:

(1)

The location of the addition or renovation relative to the existing building.

(2)

The size relative to the existing building.

(3)

The location of the existing building.

(4)

Whether compliance with this section will result in architectural consistency with the existing building and improve the overall aesthetics of the building.

(5)

The practicality of requiring compliance with this section based on the design and structural integrity of the existing building.

(c)

The outside storage of materials and equipment not licensed for driving on public streets is permitted subject to the following restrictions:

(1)

Materials may be stored only in the side or rear yards, except that materials may not be stored on the street side of a corner lot or in any required yard.

(2)

All storage of materials and equipment used in the business except vehicles shall be visually screened to a height of at least six feet above the highest elevation of the nearest adjacent road or property bordering the site unless in the opinion of the Planning Commission or other approving authority the material is stored in a manner that it is not readily visible from off-site or that the material is located such a substantial distance from adjacent properties and roadways that it is not a visual nuisance as seen from off-site.

(3)

In no case shall the outside storage of materials or equipment be stacked higher than the height of the visual screen unless in the opinion of the Planning Commission or other approving authority the material is stored in a manner that it is not readily visible from off-site or that the material is located such a substantial distance from adjacent properties and roadways that it is not a visual nuisance as seen from off-site.

(d)

Operations which involve the repair or storage of damaged vehicles shall immediately remove all fluids from such vehicles if there is evidence that leaking of fluids is occurring or could occur. This is necessary to minimize fire hazards and to prevent such fluids from contaminating groundwater and surface water.

(e)

Any use permitted in the Industrial Zone shall not create a vibration which is discernible to off-site residents or occupants.

(f)

All business shall be conducted in such a manner that any noise, smoke, dust, vibration, or like nuisance shall not adversely affect adjoining properties.

(g)

Each building which is subject to site plan review or which requires a building permit for expansion or alternation shall be equipped with an approved rapid entry system (such as "Knox Box") for emergency response services. Such system shall require the approval of the Township Fire Department.

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)

(a)

General Requirements:

(1)

Accessory Buildings. Section 109-3.12.

(2)

Landscaping for Non-Residential Uses. Article 26.

(3)

Parking of Recreational Vehicles. Section 109-3.25.

(4)

Signs. Article 28.

(5)

Off-Street Parking. Article 27.

(6)

Sidewalks. Article 30.

(b)

Development Procedures:

(1)

Site Plan Review. Article 23.

(2)

Conditional Land Uses. Article 24.

(3)

Site Condominiums. Article 25.

(c)

Appeals and Administration:

(1)

Non-Conforming Lot and Uses. Article 31.

(2)

Zoning Board of Appeals. Article 32.

(Ord. No. 144, 8-13-2019)