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Tecumseh City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

Sec. 48-503.- Purpose.

The regulations for the industrial districts are designed to:

(1)

Make available a range of suitable sites for all of manufacturing and related activities; and

(2)

Protect residences by separating them from manufacturing activities and by prohibiting the use of such space for new residential or commercial development.

(Code 1990, § 12-311; Code 2010, § 12-311; Code 2013, § 48-501)

Sec. 48-504. - I-1 Light Industrial District.

The purpose of the I-1 Light Industrial District is to provide a location for industries which do not by their nature create nuisances. The intent is to preserve this land for industry in a location beneficial to industries and to prohibit non-industrial uses. Any use constructed, established, altered, or enlarged in the I-1 Light Industrial District after the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived shall be so operated as to comply with the following standards:

(1)

No building shall be used for residential purposes, except that a watchman may reside on the premises;

(2)

No retail sales or services shall be permitted except as incidental to or accessory to a permitted use;

(3)

No noise, either continuous or intermittent, from any operation conducted on the premises, other than that emanating from vehicular traffic, shall be detectable at any boundary line of the lot;

(4)

No toxic matter, noxious matter, smoke, gas, or odorous or particulate matter shall be emitted that is detectable beyond the lot lines of the lot on which the use is located;

(5)

No vibrations shall be detectable beyond the lot lines of the lot on which the use is located;

(6)

Exterior lighting fixtures shall be shaded wherever necessary to avoid casting direct light upon property located in any residential district;

(7)

The manufacture of flammable materials which produce explosive vapors or gases is prohibited;

(8)

No outside storage of equipment or materials, except equipment in daily use, shall be permitted in such a location where it can be viewed from any public street; or

(9)

Any operation that produces intense glare or heat shall be performed within a completely enclosed building, and exposed sources of light shall be screened so as not to be detectable beyond the lot lines.

(Code 1990, § 12-312; Code 2010, § 12-312; Code 2013, § 48-502)

Sec. 48-505. - I-2. Heavy Industrial District.

The purpose of the I-2 Heavy Industrial District is to provide a location for industries which may by their nature create some nuisance. The intent is to preserve this land especially for such industry in locations with access to arterial streets as designated on the thoroughfare plan, as well as locations generally accessible to railroad transportation. Any use constructed, established, altered, or enlarged in the I-2 Heavy Industrial District after the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived shall be so operated as to comply with the following standards. No use already established on the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived shall be so altered or modified as to conflict with, or further conflict with, the following standards:

(1)

No building shall be used for residential purposes, except that a watchman may reside on the premises;

(2)

No retail sales or services shall be permitted except as incidental to or accessory to a permitted use;

(3)

No storage, manufacture, or assembly of goods shall be conducted out of a building unless the nearest point of the activity is more than 300 feet from the boundary of any zoning district;

(4)

Exterior lighting fixtures shall be shaded wherever necessary to avoid casting direct light upon property located in any residential district;

(5)

All manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, and testing of goods, water, and merchandise shall be carried on in such a manner as not to be injurious or offensive by reason of the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious matter, odors, glare, heat, fire or explosive hazards; or

(6)

No activities involving storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted.

(Code 1990, § 12-313; Code 2010, § 12-313; Code 2013, § 48-503)

Sec. 48-506. - Uses permitted.

The permitted uses in industrial districts are set forth below. Where the letter "X" appears on the line of a permitted use and in the column of a district, the listed use is permitted in that district, subject to special conditions applying to the districts as set forth in these zoning regulations. Where the letter "P" appears instead of an "X," this use is permitted, subject to acquiring a conditional use permit.

Permitted UsesZoning District
I-1 I-2
Abattoir X
Accessories for vehicles or equipment whose sale is permitted, but not including the rebuilding or recapping of tires X X
Advertising agency X X
Aerosol containers: filling on contract basis X X
Agricultural services X
Air conditioning and heating equipment P X
Aircraft parts: sales, service, rental or repair, including airframes and engines X X
Aircraft transportation P P
Aircraft transportation (special permit building or recapping of tires) X X
Airway beacon or marker X X
Animal bones, offal or waste: assembly, incinerator, processing or utilization P
Animal hospital P X
Animal and marine fats and oils: manufacturing or processing P
Animal and poultry slaughter and processing P
Apiary X
Apparel and other textile products X X
Armature rewinding shop X X
Armored car service X
Arsenal X
Auditorium or arena, public X X
Auctioneer (nonanimal) X X
Automatic merchandising establishment X X
Automobile accessory, tire or battery stores without tire recapping X X
Automobile, bus, truck dismantling, salvaging or wrecking P
Automobile parking or storage, as a principal use X X
Automobile sales, new or used X X
Automobile wash services, including self-service P X
Batching or mixing plant, asphaltic or Portland cement, concrete, mortar or plaster X
Blueprinting, photocopying and similar reproduction services X X
Boarding or training animals X
Boat accessory store X X
Boat rental or storage X X
Book bindery P X
Bottled gas X X
Bottling plant X X
Brick, tile or clay manufacturing X
Broadcasting or recording studio X X
Brooms and brushes X X
Building materials P X
Building materials or lumber: wholesale sales X X
Building services, including janitorial service, floor waxing and office cleaning X X
Bus garaging and equipment maintenance X
Buses: sales, service, rental and repair P X
Cabinet maker X X
Canvas or canvas products X X
Carpentry, woodworking or furniture working X X
Ceramic products X X
Cesspool cleaning establishment X
Chemicals, compounding or packaging X
City, county, school district, state or federal facilities X X
City or county jail X X
Civil defense and related activities facilities X X
Coal preparation X
Cold storage plant P X
Compounding of cosmetics, toiletries, drugs and pharmaceutical products X X
Computing, data processing or similar service X X
Construction equipment repair, sales or storage P X
Contract sorting, grading and packing of fruits and vegetables for grower X
Contractor (general or heavy construction) facilities other than office P X
Contractor (special trade) facilities other than office P X
Cornshelling, hay bailing and threshing services X
Cotton ginning and compressing X
Creosoting or similar process X
Dairy farm: products, egg farm X
Delivery service P X
Detective or protective service X X
Direct selling organization, retail P X
Disinfecting, deodorizing or exterminator service P X
Drafting service X X
Drive-in restaurant P X
Dry cleaning and dyeing plant X X
Eating places other than drive-in not serving beer P X
Electric generating plant P X
Electric regulating substation P X
Electric utility maintenance facility X X
Electrical appliance, equipment and supplies X X
Electrical equipment assembly X X
Electronic equipment assembly and manufacture X X
Employment service X X
Engraving plant X X
Exploration for minerals P
Explosives; manufacture, storage, warehousing or wholesaling X
Extraction of sand, gravel, clay, quarrying of rock P
Facilities of ad hoc governmental agencies X X
Fairgrounds X X
Farm equipment: sales, services, rental and repair X X
Farm for raising dogs, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, rabbits or poultry X
Farm products, NEC, wholesaling or public warehousing X
Farm supply store P X
Fertilizer P
Financial institution X X
Fire extinguisher service X X
Fire protection and related activities facility X X
Fireworks: manufacture, storage, warehousing or wholesaling X
Food products, including bakery products, candy, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, packing and processing of meats and poultry, but not including slaughtering of animals or poultry X X
Food products, including slaughtering of animals and poultry X
Forestry services X
Foundries X
Freight depot, railroad or truck X X
Freight forwarding service X X
Fur animal raising X
Furnace cleaning X
Furniture, home furnishings and equipment store X X
Furniture manufacturing X X
Gas pressure control station P X
Gas utility maintenance facility P X
Garbage or trash; assembly incineration or processing X
Gases or liquids, flammable, storage X
Gasoline service station X X
Glass or glass products X
Grain milling or processing X
Hair, felt, feather or leather products X
Hardware, industrial sales P X
Hay, grain or feed store P X
Highway garage or similar public maintenance facility X
Hog raising P
Ice plants, dry or natural X X
Incinerators X
Institution, nonresidential X X
Instrument and meter manufacturing X X
Intensive recreation facility including go-cart track, BMX bicycle track, automobile or motorcycle race track, driving range, water park, ball diamonds, target range P P
Jewelry manufacturing X X
Laboratory: research, development or testing X X
Laundry (except self-service) and laundry services P X
Leather goods fabrication X X
Linen supply or industrial laundry P X
Livestock assembly, feeding, sales, shipment P
Livestock auction sales barn and pens X
Livestock breeding and slaughtering X
Lumberyards X X
Manufacturing having moderate to substantial environmental influences by reason of odor, heat, smoke, noise or vibration in the more restrictive industrial district X
Manufacturing having moderate to slight or no objectionable environmental influences by reason of odor, heat, smoke, noise or vibration in the more restrictive industrial district X X
Manufacturing NEC, appropriate in the more restrictive industrial districts X X
Mattresses: rebuilding or renovating X X
Medical or dental clinic X X
Metals or minerals (except petroleum products or scrap) sales X X
Mining of coal, metal ores and nonmetallic minerals other than fuels P
Mobile homes or travel trailers, sales and service X X
Monument works X X
Motion-picture distribution and services X X
Motion-picture theater, drive-in P X
News syndicate service X X
Nonmetallic mineral preparation X
Office, professional X X
Oil field equipment and supplies: sales, service, rental or repair X X
Optical goods manufacturing X X
Ore dressing and beneficiating X
Orthopedic or medical supplies X X
Outdoor advertising plant X X
Packing and crating service P X
Paint, enamel, lacquer, turpentine, varnish manufacturing P
Paper manufacturing or processing P
Paper products including envelopes, stationery, wallpaper manufacturing X X
Petroleum pipeline or pressure control station P X
Petroleum products, storage X
Photofinishing service X X
Pipeline pressure control station P X
Plastic products including luggage, tableware or similar products X X
Police protection and related activities facility X X
Postal services facilities X X
Poultry and small game dressing and packing X
Prescription pharmacy X X
Printing and publishing including engraving or photoengraving X X
Production of crude petroleum, natural gas and natural gas liquids P
Public stable P
Quarrying of stone P
Radioactive waste disposal P
Radio transmitting station or tower P X
Railroad equipment storage or maintenance X
Railroad freight terminal X
Repair, renting and servicing of commodities X
Retail sales of farm products sold on premises X
Rubber products, natural or synthetic manufacturing P
Rug cleaning or repairing P X
School, commercial or trade X X
Scrap and waste materials handling, including building and vehicle wrecking establishments and junkyards P
Scrap steel cutting on control basis X
Secondhand automotive parts, accessories, battery and tire dealer X
Sewage pressure control station P X
Sewage treatment plant or sludge drying bed P X
Sporting or athletic equipment manufacturing X X
Steel products, fabrication and assembly X
Tar or tar products X
Taxicab garaging and maintenance X
Taxicab stand or dispatching station P X
Telegraph transmitting or receiving station P X
Telephone exchange station, relay tower P X
Television transmitting tower or receiving station P X
Tire recapping X
Truck, bus, train terminals X X
Truck sales, service, rental, repair X X
Vending machines: sales, service, rental or repair X X
Venetian blind, window shades, awnings X X
Warehousing, NEC other than warehousing accessory to another permitted use X X
Water treatment plant, storage facility or pressure control station P X
Wholesaling, NEC X X
Wholesaling, or public warehousing of farm products NEC, food NEC, grain, hides, skins, raw furs, livestock, petroleum products (bulk station or terminal), scrap or waste materials X
Window cleaning service X X
Wood distillation X
Wood or lumber processing X

 

(Code 1990, §§ 12-314, 12-315; Code 2010, §§ 12-314, 12-315; Code 2013, § 48-504)

Sec. 48-507. - Lot, yard and height regulations.

(a)

No lot or yard shall be established or reduced in dimension or area in any industrial district that does not meet the minimum requirements set forth in the following tables. No building or structure shall be erected or enlarged that will cause the maximum lot coverage or maximum height regulations to be exceeded for such district as set forth below.

(b)

The following lot, yard and height regulations apply:

Lot RegulationsZoning District
I-1 I-2
Maximum lot coverage (percent) 1 30 50
Yard regulations (in feet)
Minimum front yard 2 50 50
Minimum rear yard 3 20 20
Minimum side yard 4 — —
Height 5 50 50

 

In addition:

1 The total building coverage of any lot shall not exceed that specified above, provided that paving, landscaping, outside storage (where permitted), lighting fixtures and similar improvements shall not be considered as a part of the total building coverage.

2 The front yard of any lot in the industrial district shall be not less than that specified in the table above.

3 The rear yard of any lot in the industrial districts shall be not less than that specified above; provided, however, that the rear yard of any lot adjoining a residential district on the rear, shall have a rear yard setback of two feet for each one foot of building height, plus a screening wall or fence as provided in section 48-312.

4 There are no side yard requirements on lots within the industrial districts except where such lot abuts a residential district, in which case there shall be a side yard setback of two feet for each one foot of height, plus a screening wall or fence as provided in section 48-312.

5 No building or structure in any industrial district shall exceed a height as set forth in the table above.

(Code 1990, § 12-316; Code 2010, § 12-316; Code 2013, § 48-505)

Sec. 48-508. - Signs and billboards.

In the I-1 and I-2 industrial districts, one business or outdoor advertising sign shall be erected not exceeding an aggregate display surface area for wall or canopy sign of three square feet per each linear foot of the building wall to which the sign or signs are affixed. In addition to the wall or canopy signs permitted hereinabove, a lot containing one business establishment or vacant lot, may utilize for business sign or outdoor advertising one roof projecting or ground sign of 2.5 square feet of display area per linear foot of street frontage; provided, however, that not more than 1.5 square feet of display surface area per linear foot of street frontage may be erected.

(Code 1990, § 12-317; Code 2010, § 12-317; Code 2013, § 48-506)