51469 Birch St New Baltimore, MI 48047-1587

Sec. 60-142. - Industrial, I. (a) General intent. The intent of the industrial district is to encourage and facilitate the development of industrial enterprise in a setting conducive to economic stability and growth, providing protection from blight, deterioration and nonindustrial encroachment, and efficient traffic movement for employee and truck traffic. Protection is provided to residential land uses by separating them from industrial activities and by prohibiting the use of industrial zones for new residential development. (b) Permitted uses. (1) Automobile repair and service centers. (2) Building material sales. (3) Contractors office with garages for indoor maintenance and indoor storage of equipment. (4) Manufacturing, compounding, processing, assembly and packaging facilities. (5) Municipal uses and buildings. (6) Offices, research and laboratories. (7) Public utility buildings, telephone exchange, transformer stations and substations, gas and oil pumping regulator and transfer stations, and propane depots. (8) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, lumber, or storage of contractor's equipment and materials, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall on those sides abutting residential, commercial or the streets. (9) Tool and die, gauge and machine shops. (10) Uses with locations restrictions to avoid secondary effects (