The purpose of the I-2 District is to provide areas where heavier
types of industry may best utilize essential public and private facilities
and utilities while minimizing the negative impacts typically associated
with this kind of industry.
Principal permitted uses in the I-2 District shall be as follows:
A. All permitted uses in the I-1 District.
B. Establishments which assemble and manufacture automobiles, automobile
bodies, parts and accessories, electrical fixtures, batteries and
other electrical apparatus and hardware.
C. Establishments that process, refine or store food and foodstuffs.
D. Breweries, wineries, auto body repair shops, distilleries, machine
shops, metal buffing shops, plastering and polishing shops, metal
and plastic molding shops, extrusion shops, lumber and planing mills,
painting and sheet metal shops, undercoating and rust-proofing shops
and welding shops.
E. Municipal sewage treatment plants.
G. Bulk storage of gasoline, fuel oil, fuel gas, propane, kerosene,
diesel fuel or any flammable liquid.
H. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above
principal permitted uses.
I. Off-street parking in accordance with §
370-404.
J. A marihuana commercial business retailer as authorized by Village
of Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 11-25-2019 by Ord.
No. 259; amended 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
K. A marihuana commercial business grower as authorized by Village of
Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 11-25-2019 by Ord.
No. 259; amended 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
L. A marihuana commercial business processor as authorized by Village
of Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 11-25-2019 by Ord.
No. 259; amended 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
M. A marihuana commercial business secure transporter as authorized
by Village of Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 11-25-2019 by Ord.
No. 259; amended 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
N. A marihuana
commercial business safety compliance facility as authorized by the
Village of Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
O. A marihuana
commercial business designated consumption lounge as authorized by
the Village of Cassopolis Ordinance No. 263.
[Added 8-10-2020 by Ord. No. 264]
The following uses are subject to a special use permit in the I-2 District. All uses are subject to restrictions listed in Article
XVI of this chapter.
A. Automobile disposal, junkyards, recycling facilities.
B. Central dry cleaning plants and laundries.
C. Adult commercial and service establishments of an adult nature as
defined herein and subject to conditions:
(1)
In order to prevent an undesirable concentration of such uses
and activities, such uses and activities shall not be located within
1,000 feet of two other such uses nor within 500 feet of any residentially
zoned district as measured along a line forming the shortest distance
between any portion of the respective properties of the following
existing and proposed specified uses and activities and between such
uses and the adjoining residentially zoned district.
E. Adult motion-picture theater.
F. Adult mini motion-picture theater.
G. Adult smoking or sexual paraphernalia store.
I. Host or hostess establishments offering socialization with a host
or hostess for consideration.
L. Halfway/Transitional house if located farther than 1,500 feet from
any residential home. Cannot be located within 1,500 feet of any school
or park.
M. Tavern or cabaret providing live or projected entertainment where
intoxicating liquors may or may not be sold for consumption on the
premises. The term "projected entertainment" shall not include standard
television reception.
N. Any combination of the foregoing conditions. The Village Council
may waive the foregoing spacing requirements if it finds the following
conditions exist:
(1)
The proposed use will not be contrary to the public interests
or injurious to nearby properties in the proposed location, and the
spirit and intent of the purpose of the spacing regulations will still
be observed; and
(2)
The proposed use will not enhance or promote a deleterious effect
upon adjacent areas through causing or encouraging deterioration upon
other businesses and occupants and a disruption in neighborhood development.
All storage of building, contracting, or plumbing materials,
sand, gravel, stone, lumber, equipment, and other supplies in the
I-2 District shall be located within an area not closer than 150 feet
from any street right-of-way line. The storage of lumber, coal, or
other combustible material in the I-2 District shall not be less than
20 feet from any interior lot line, and a roadway shall be provided,
graded, surfaced, and maintained from the street to the rear of the
property to permit free access of fire trucks at any time. All such
open storage shall be screened from all streets, and on all sides
which abut any residential or business district, by a solid six-foot
wall or fence sufficient to serve as a permanent retaining wall or
fence.
Before the issuance of any building or occupancy permit in the
I-2 district, the applicant shall sign an agreement that the use of
the property will meet the following performance standards, or that
any violation of these standards in subsequent operations will be
corrected, the costs of inspection by experts for compliance to be
borne by the applicant:
A. Fire and explosion hazards. All activities in the I-2 District shall
be carried on only in buildings conforming to the Single State Construction
Code Act, Act 230 of 1972, and the operation shall be carried on in such a manner
and with such precaution against fire and explosion hazards as to
produce no explosion hazards to a use on an adjacent property as determined
by the state. Flammable liquids other than fuels used for heating
shall be stored in an entirely closed building which shall be used
for no other purpose, or in underground tanks provided with proof
of MDEQ permit:
(1)
Said storage building is not closer than 100 feet to any building
occupied by one or more humans.
(2)
Every factory or manufacturing building or other building permitted
only in the industrial area shall be equipped with automatic sprinklers
or other automatic fire extinguishers approved by the Building Inspector
and the Chief of the Fire Department as being sufficient in view of
the nature and extent of the fire risk.
B. Smoke, fumes, gases, dust, odors. There shall be no emission of any
smoke, atomic radiation, fumes, gas, dust, odors or any other atmospheric
pollutant which will disseminate beyond the boundaries of the lot
occupied by such use in such a manner as to create a public nuisance.
C. Liquid or solid waste. The discharge of untreated industrial waste
into a reservoir, pond, lake or stream is prohibited. All methods
of sewerage and industrial waste treatment and disposal shall be approved
by the County Health Department and the State Department of Environmental
Quality.
D. Vibration. There shall be no vibration that is discernible to the
human sense of feeling beyond the immediate site on which such use
is conducted.
E. Noise. There shall be no noise emanating from the operation that
will be more audible beyond 100 feet of the immediate site than 80
decibels.
F. Glare. There shall be no direct or sky-reflected glare exceeding
1.5 footcandles or which would be damaging to the human eye measured
at the property line of the lot occupied by such use. This regulation
shall not apply to lights used at the entrances or exits of service
drives leading to a parking lot.
G. Entry and exit light shall be designed to direct light down onto
the site and away from residential property.
Area, height, bulk and placement requirements for the I-2 District, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in the Schedule of Regulations in Article
XVII of this chapter. For all permitted uses and uses permitted subject to a special use permit, a site plan shall be submitted in accordance with §
370-402.