§ 94-248. Principal uses permitted subject to special conditions.  


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  • The following special condition uses shall be permitted in the industrial district, subject to the conditions required in this section for each use, subject to any and all reasonable conditions which may be imposed in accordance with section 4c(2) of the City-Village Zoning Act, as amended, and further subject to the review and approval by the planning commission and village council as specified in section 94-388, review and approval of conditional uses, and section 94-386, site plan review, of this chapter.

    (1)

    Lumber and planing mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the district so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the district.

    (2)

    Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances.

    (3)

    Mini-warehouses (self-storage facilities), subject to the following conditions:

    a.

    The minimum size of the site devoted to such use shall not be less than one acre.

    b.

    Building setbacks shall be as follows: Front yard, not less than 20 feet; side and rear yards, not less than ten feet.

    c.

    Building separation between self-storage buildings on the same site shall be 15 feet, as measured from side to side or front to rear, or equal to the building height, whichever is greater.

    d.

    The total lot coverage of all structures shall be limited to 50 percent of the total lot area.

    e.

    Screening in accordance with section 94-353, screening walls.

    f.

    Parking shall be provided in the ratio of one space for each 2,000 square feet of gross building area. At a minimum, two parking spaces must be assigned to, and located conveniently to, each individual storage building. In addition, two spaces for the resident manager, and one additional space for each additional employee, shall be provided adjacent to the rental office.

    g.

    Internal driveway aisles shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width.

    h.

    All off-street parking areas and driveways shall be hard surfaced and drained in accordance with section 94-340.

    i.

    Vehicular access from this site shall be directly onto a collector or major thoroughfare in accordance with the provisions of section 94-347, principal vehicular access to a major thoroughfare or collector street.

    (4)

    Adult entertainment use, subject to the following conditions:

    a.

    No adult entertainment use shall be located within 1,000 feet of any other adult entertainment use nor within 600 feet of any of the following uses:

    1.

    All class "C" establishments licensed by the state liquor control commission.

    2.

    Pool or billiard halls.

    3.

    Coin-operated amusement centers.

    4.

    Teen centers or dancehalls.

    5.

    Ice or rollerskating rinks.

    6.

    Pawnshops.

    7.

    Theaters.

    8.

    Any public park.

    9.

    Any church.

    10.

    Any public or private school having a curriculum including kindergarten or any one or more of grades 1 through 12.

    Such distance shall be measured along the centerline of the street or streets or address between two fixed points on the centerlines determined by projecting straight lines at right angles from the part of the above listed uses nearest to the contemplated location of the structure containing the adult entertainment use, and from the contemplated location of the structure containing the adult entertainment use nearest to a use listed above.

    b.

    No adult entertainment use shall be located within 600 feet of any area zoned residential. Such required distances shall be measured by a straight line between a point on the boundary line of a zoned residential area nearest to the contemplated structure or contemplated location of the structure containing the adult entertainment use to a point on the contemplated structure or contemplated location of the structure containing the adult entertainment use nearest to the boundary lines of a zoned residential area.

    c.

    All adult entertainment uses shall be contained in a freestanding building. Enclosed malls, commercial strip stores, common wall structures, and multiuses within the same structure do not constitute a freestanding building.

    d.

    No adult use shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas from any public way or from any property not regulated as an adult entertainment use. This provision shall apply to any display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening.

    (5)

    Junkyards, provided that such junkyard is entirely enclosed within a building or within an eight-foot obscuring wall and provided further that one property line abuts a railroad right-of-way. Junkyards located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or state primary or secondary highway shall further be subject to any and all provisions of Act No. 219 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1966 (MCL 247.331 et seq.), as amended, pertaining to control of junkyards adjacent to highways. There shall be no burning on the site and all industrial processes involving the use of equipment for cutting, compressing, or packaging shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.

    (6)

    Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.

(Ord. No. 228, § 1102, 9-28-95; Ord. No. 231-004, § 2, 6-16-97)

State law reference

Approval of special land use, MCL 125.584c.