The I 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.

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; photographic equipment; furniture assembly and/or manufacturing; processing and packaging of agricultural products.

d)

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.

e)

Warehouses, distribution and storage facilities, including mini-warehouses.

f)

Research and development facilities, including production activities.

g)

Trade or industrial schools and veterinary hospitals or clinics.

h)

Motor freight terminal, including garaging and maintenance of equipment.

i)

Freight forwarding packing and crating services.

j)

Central dry cleaning plant.

k)

Municipal buildings, public service buildings.

l)

Essential public service structures and buildings.

m)

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

n)

Body shops, wrecker services, vehicle repair facilities.

o)

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.

p)

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

q)

Machine shops.

r)

Tool and die establishments.

s)

Commercial fuel depot.

t)

Indoor recreation establishments.

u)

Park and ride lots operated by a public agency.

v)

Buildings, structures, and uses accessory to the permitted and special land uses.

The following uses may be permitted in the I Industrial District upon authorization as a special land use by the planning commission in accordance with the requirements of chapter 14 herein:

(a)

Adult uses.

(b)

Airports and landing fields.

(c)

Crematoriums.

(d)

Establishments which produce alcoholic beverages primarily for distribution off site and which 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.

(e)

Heating and electric power generating plants.

(f)

Lumberyards.

(g)

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.

(h)

Medical marihuana growers (any class).

(i)

Medical marihuana processors.

(j)

Medical marihuana provisioning centers.

(k)

Medical marihuana safety compliance facilities.

(l)

Medical marihuana secure transporter.

(m)

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

(n)

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

(o)

Pulp and paper manufacturing.

(p)

Recreational marihuana growers (any class).

(q)

Recreational marihuana retailers.

(r)

Recreational marihuana safety compliance facilities.

(s)

Recreational marihuana secure transporters.

(t)

Refuse and garbage incinerators.

(u)

Sale/rental and display of the following: temporary mobile storage units (pods) and temporary refuse collection units; farm and garden products including fencing and equipment; pre-cast concrete products; utility trailers, animal trailers, and similar trailers; and granite or marble or similar products or raw materials.

(v)

Salvage yards and recycling facilities.

(w)

Slaughter house, rendering plant.

(x)

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

(y)

Waste treatment facilities.

(z)

Water supply and treatment facilities.

(Ord. No. 2021-246, § 7, 8-24-2021)

Footnotes:

(1)

If abutting properties are zoned R-1, R-M, or the abutting property is recommended for such use in the Stanton Master Plan, the setback shall be a minimum of 50 feet from the abutting lot line.

a)

Greenbelt. Per section 16.05, shall be erected and maintained on the side and rear of any industrial zoned premises where the same abuts a zone which permits residential use or an area recommended for such use in the city master plan. Such greenbelts shall also be required where commercial premises and uses abut existing nonconforming residential uses. The planning commission may require a solid fence instead of a greenbelt if in the opinion of the commission a fence would provide a more effective screen for the adjacent property.

b)

Dumpsters. Outdoor solid waste dumpsters shall be screened by a continuous opaque screen at least six feet high. The screen may be comprised of berms, plant material, screen walls or fences or any combination of these elements. Dumpsters may be installed within buffer zones.

Wheeled or movable 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.

c)

Structure façade. At least 80 percent of that portion of a structure or building, be it a front, side, or rear, which faces a public or private street, private access drive or public or private parking lot shall be finished with face brick, wood, vinyl, glass, tinted and/or textured masonry block, fluted cement block, natural or cast stone, architectural pre-cast panels or stucco-like material. 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 Montcalm County building code, fire code and other applicable city ordinances.

d)

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.

e)

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 ground water and surface water.

f)

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

g)

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

a)

General requirements.

1)

Accessory buildings, section 3.22.

2)

Landscaping, chapter 16.

3)

Signs, chapter 18.

4)

Off-street parking, chapter 17.

b)

Development procedures.

1)

Site plan, chapter 13.

2)

Special land uses, chapter 14.

3)

Site condominiums, chapter 15.

c)

Appeals and administration.

1)

Nonconforming lot and uses, chapter 19.

2)

Zoning board of appeals, chapter 20.

3)

Administration, chapter 21.