Township of East China, MI Article 14 I-2 Industrial Two Districts

§ 480-46 Purpose.

The I-2 Industrial Two District is designed primarily for manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication activities, including large-scale or specialized industrial operations, whose external physical effects will be felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 District is so structured as to permit the manufacturing, processing and compounding of semifinished or finished products from raw materials.

§ 480-47 Principal uses permitted.

In an I-2 Industrial Two 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 permitted in an I-1 District.

B. Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair, or storage of materials, goods, or products which shall not be injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust or other particulate matter, toxic and noxious materials, odors, fire or explosive hazards, or glare or heat.

C. Undercoating shops, lumber and planing mills and metal plating, buffing, and polishing uses.

D. Storage tanks, both aboveground and underground.

E. Electric and gas service buildings and yards.

F. Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations.

G. Water supply and sewage disposal plants.

H. Railroad transfer and storage tracks.

I. Warehouses.

J. Freight terminals.

K. Stamping plants.

L. Other uses similar to those listed above.

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

§ 480-48 Uses permitted subject to special conditions.

A. Junkyards or automobile or truck repair, provided the following conditions are met:

[Amended 1-5-2009 by Ord. No. 299]

(1) Such uses must be entirely enclosed within a building or within an eight-foot solid masonry or brick obscuring wall.

(2) There shall be no burning on the site.

(3) All industrial processes involving the use of equipment for cutting, compressing, or packaging shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.

B. Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor’s equipment and supplies, subject to the following conditions:

(1) Such use shall be enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare.

(2) The extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage.

(3) Such fence or wall shall not be less than five feet in height and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chain-link-type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of said fence, shall be considered to be an obscuring fence.

C. Heating and electric power generating plants subject to the following conditions:

(1) All outside storage shall be completely screened from adjacent roads or residential districts with landscape berms.

(2) A public hearing shall be held in accordance with § 480-92, Public hearings, of this chapter.

[Amended 10-20-2003 by Ord. No. 280]