The I-1 Industrial One 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
this section 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:
A. To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations,
to meet the needs of the Township’s expected future economy
for all types of manufacturing and related uses;
B. To protect abutting residential districts by separating
them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of
such industrial areas for new residential development;
C. 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;
D. To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance
with a well considered plan;
E. 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.
In an I-1 Industrial One District, no land or
building shall be used and no building shall be erected except for
one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided
in this chapter:
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. Municipal uses such as water treatment plants and
reservoirs, sewage treatment plants, and all other municipal buildings
and uses, including outdoor storage.
C. 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-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.
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and trucking
facilities;
(2) 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;
(3) 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;
(4) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other
similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and
kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(5) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties,
and metal or rubber stamps, or other small molded rubber products;
(6) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances,
electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs;
(7) Laboratories: experimental, film, or testing;
(8) Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs,
light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment,
cornices, eaves, and the like.
(9) Automobile or truck repair facilities, provided that
no outdoor storage of scrap, junk cars, junk trucks, spare parts or
dismantled vehicles shall be permitted.
[Added 1-5-2009 by Ord. No. 299]
D. Mini storage buildings when the following conditions
are met:
[Added 10-20-2003 by Ord. No. 281]
(1) Doors providing access to individual storage units
shall not be permitted on the front yard side of the building.
(2) Vehicular aisles providing access to units on both
sides of the aisle, whether interior or exterior, shall be not less
than 30 feet wide.
(3) Aisles providing access to units on only one side
of the aisle shall be not less than 20 feet wide, provided that there
is more than one aisle available for circulation around a building.
If there is only one aisle, the aisle shall be not less than 30 feet
wide.
(4) All aisles and surfaces available to vehicles shall
be provided with asphaltic or concrete surfacing in accordance with
specifications approved by the Township.
(5) There shall be no outdoor storage and no storage of
hazardous, toxic or volatile substances.
(6) The maximum percent of the zoning lot area covered
by buildings shall be 55%.
E. Other uses similar to those listed above.
F. Accessory structures and uses customarily incident
to any of the above uses.