City of Roseville, MI Article XIV I-1 Light Industrial District

§ 370-43 Intent.

The I-1 Light Industrial District is designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale and warehouse activities, 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 this district that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form, to be used in an industrial operation at another location, not be permitted.

§ 370-44 Principal permitted uses.

The following regulations shall apply to all I-1 Districts, and no building, structure, or premises, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used except for one or more of the following uses:

A. Any use charged with the principal function of basic research design, and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building. The growing of any vegetation requisite to the conducting of basic research shall be excluded from the requirement of enclosure.

B. Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.

(1) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and food products.

(2) The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills), and yarns.

(3) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

(4) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other small, molded rubber products.

(5) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs.

(6) Laboratories - experimental, film, or testing.

(7) Manufacture and repair of electronic or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.

(8) Central dry-cleaning plants or laundries, provided that such plants shall not deal directly with consumers at retail.

(9) All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.

(10) Offices and office uses.

C. Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards. Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations. Water supply and sewage disposal plants. Water and gas tank holders. Railroad transfer and storage tracks. Railroad rights-of-way. Railroad and truck terminal freight facilities.

D. Storage facilities for building materials, and gravel, stone and lumber. Storage of contractor's equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring masonry wall and intense landscape planting screen on those sides abutting a more restrictive district or a public thoroughfare. In any I-1 District, the height of the wall may be determined by the Building Department or the Planning Commission in accordance with the standards set forth in Article XXII in this chapter.

E. Trade or industrial schools.

F. Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above permitted uses.

G. Nonaccessory, freestanding signs, subject to the requirements of Chapter 264, Signs, in the Roseville Code of Ordinances.

H. Commercial kennels, when located at least 250 feet from any R Residential District.

§ 370-45 Uses permitted subject to special conditions.

The following uses shall be permitted, subject to conditions hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to the review and approval of the Building Department or Planning Commission.

A. Motor vehicle repair (major), as defined in this chapter, automobile or other machinery assembly plants, painting and varnishing shops, undercoating shops, lumber and planing mills.

B. Uses which serve the convenience needs of the industrial district such as select convenience commercial uses, eating and drinking establishments, bank, savings and loan association, credit union, automobile service station, motel, bowling alley, trade or industrial school, or industrial clinic.

C. Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character, and which will not be injurious or have an adverse effect on adjacent areas, and may therefore be permitted subject to such conditions, restrictions and safeguards as the Planning Commission may deem necessary in the interest of public health, safety and welfare.

D. Cemeteries and mausoleums existing at the time of adoption of this chapter subject to the applicable standards of § 370-14M of this chapter.

E. Self-storage facilities, provided any outdoor storage shall be effectively screened from view from any abutting public road right-of-way, from any commercial district, any office district and any residential district. Such facilities may include the dwelling of a caretaker or security person, subject to the applicable requirement of this chapter.

F. Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.

G. Medical marihuana cultivation operation.

[Added 4-13-2021 by Ord. No. 1321]

§ 370-46 Required conditions.

The following conditions, where applicable, shall apply to all uses permitted in the 1-1 District.

A. The outdoor storage of products and materials shall be permitted, provided:

(1) All outdoor storage shall be located in the rear yard or within a nonrequired interior side yard only. No outdoor storage of any kind shall be permitted in any designated parking or loading, unloading area.

(2) All outdoor storage shall be screened from view in accordance with the requirements set forth in Article XXII in this chapter.

B. All uses permitted in the I-1 District shall comply fully with the applicable standards of § 370-111 in this chapter.

C. See Article XVIII, Schedule of Regulations; District Options, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of a lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted and providing minimum yard setback requirements.

D. See Article XIX, Use Permits.

E. See Article XX, Off-Street Parking Standards.

(1) Section 370-75, General parking requirements.

(2) Section 370-76, Off-street parking and vehicle stacking space requirements.

(3) Section 370-77, Off-street parking space layout standards.

(4) Section 370-78, Off-street loading and unloading.

F. Article XXI, Site Plan Review.

(1) Section 370-79, Site plan process.

(2) Section 370-80, Improvement guarantee.

G. Article XXII, Screening Devices and Landscaping.

(1) Section 370-81 Screening devices required.

(2) Section 370-82, Screen wall structures.

(3) Section 370-83, Landscaped earth berms.

(4) Section 370-84, Landscape planting screen.

(5) Section 370-85, Building wall serving as screen.

(6) Section 370-86, Approvals and waivers.

(7) Section 370-87, Landscape planting standards.

(8) Section 370-88, Required conditions for landscape planting screens.

(9) Section 370-89, Planting plan.

(10) Section 370-90, Planting plan review.

(11) Section 370-91, Layout standards; plant materials.

(12) Section 370-92, Landscaping for aesthetic purposes.

(13) Section 370-93, Aesthetic landscape areas.

(14) Section 370-94, Cost estimates and surety.

(15) Section 370-95, Exterior utility equipment screens.

(16) Section 370-96, Trash receptacle screens.

H. See Article XXIII, General Provisions.

(1) Section 370-100, Accessory uses.

(2) Section 370-102, Exterior site lighting.

(3) Section 370-104, Corner clearance.

(4) Section 370-105, Frontage on public streets.

(5) Section 370-106, Access to major thoroughfares.

(6) Section 370-107, Exterior building wall materials guidelines.

(7) Section 370-108, Signs.

(8) Section 370-110, Use restrictions.

(9) Section 370-111, Performance standards.

I. See Article XXV, General Exceptions.

(1) Section 370-126, Height limit.

(2) Section 370-128, Lots adjoining alleys.

(3) Section 370-129, Yard regulations.

(4) Section 370-132, Projections into yards.

(5) Section 370-133, Access through yards.