The IRO Industrial Research Office Districts
are designed to provide for uses which are office or research-type
or industrial uses which have limited impact outside of the industrial
building. The district is intended to encourage uses which have a
high value per acre of land that will supplement the Township’s
tax base.
In an IRO Industrial Research Office 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.
B. Office buildings for any of the following occupations:
executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical,
stenographic, drafting, and sales.
C. Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations.
D. Industrial production of any of the following industrial
uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building:
(1) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging
or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, pharmaceuticals,
toiletries and food products.
(2) The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment
of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared
materials: canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber,
glass, paper, plastics, shell, textiles and wax.
(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 small electrical appliances,
electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs.
(6) Laboratories: experimental, film or testing.
E. Gymnasiums, health clubs, or fitness/exercise centers;
indoor archery ranges, tennis courts, or skating rinks; and similar
forms of indoor commercial recreation.
F. Municipal buildings and uses.
G. Other uses similar to those listed above.
H. Accessory structures and uses customarily incident
to any of the above uses.