The I-1 limited industrial districts are designed to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 district is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material, it being the intent of the article that the processing or manufacturing from raw materials not be permitted. The general goals of this use district include, among others, the following specific purposes:

1.

To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the township's expected future economy for all types of limited manufacturing and related uses;

2.

To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development;

3.

To encourage manufacturing development and warehousing which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, and other objectionable nuisances;

4.

To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the master plan for future land use; and

5.

To protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the township's tax revenue.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1500)

In the I-1 districts, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this ordinance:

1.

Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design, and pilot or experimental product development;

2.

Municipal uses such as water treatment plants and reservoirs, sewage treatment plants, and all other municipal buildings and uses, including outdoor storage;

3.

Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformers stations and substations, and gas regulator stations;

4.

Any of the following uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, or within a designated area enclosed on all sides with a six- to eight-foot high fence or solid wall. Said fence or wall shall be completely obscuring on those sides where abutting or adjacent to districts zoned for residential use.

a.

Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and trucking facilities;

b.

The manufacture, compounding processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as, but not limited to bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge, and machine shops;

c.

The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as, but not limited to: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal (excluding large stampings, such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills), and yarns;

d.

The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;

e.

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other small molded rubber products;

f.

Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs;

g.

Laboratories - experimental, film, or testing; and

h.

Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like;

5.

Farms;

6.

Freestanding nonaccessory signs;

7.

Trade or industrial schools;

8.

Commercial kennels;

9.

Ministorage buildings when the following conditions are met:

a.

Doors providing access to individual storage units shall not be permitted on the front yard side of the building;

b.

Vehicular aisles providing access to units on both sides of the aisle, whether interior or exterior, shall be not fewer than 30 feet wide;

c.

Aisles providing access to units on only one side of the aisle shall be not fewer than 24 feet wide, provided that there is more than one aisle available for circulation around building. If there is only one aisle, then the aisle shall be not fewer than 30 feet wide;

d.

There shall be no storage of hazardous, toxic or volatile substances; and

e.

The maximum percent of the zoning lot area covered by buildings shall be 55 percent;

10.

Other uses similar to those listed above; and

11.

Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1505)

The following uses may be permitted by the planning commission pursuant to article 22 special land uses approval.

1.

Industrial uses of a similar nature to the uses permitted in section 1505;

2.

Indoor tennis or racquet court facilities, indoor ice or roller skating arenas and other similar uses;

3.

Adult entertainment facilities; and

4.

Nursery garden and garden supplies.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1510)

Uses permitted in sections 1505 and 1510 shall be subject to the following conditions:

1.

Outdoor storage of materials shall be permitted in the rear yard only, and no articles shall be stacked or piled so as to exceed the height of the screen wall or berm. The outdoor storage areas shall be screened from the view of any adjoining public street, thoroughfare or freeway and shall be constructed in accordance with the applicable requirements of section 2055.

2.

The use shall be subject to the review and approval of the site plan by the planning commission, pursuant to section 2810.

3.

Loading and unloading space shall be provided as required by section 1910.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1515)

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, shall be as provided in article 18, schedule of regulations.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1520)