Village of New Haven, MI Article XIII IO Industrial Office District

§ 515-55 Intent.

The Industrial Office District is intended to accommodate office, engineering and product development, light industrial and similar uses. Unlike many light and heavy industrial land uses, those permitted within the IO District shall have minimum impacts outside of the principal buildings and are intended to be carried out in an unobtrusive and compatible manner with surrounding residential or commercial areas.

§ 515-56 Principal permitted uses.

In the IO District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following uses when carried out entirely within an enclosed building:

A. Computer programming, data processing, and other computer-related services.

B. Educational facilities, trade and vocational schools.

C. Financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, and savings and loan institutions.

D. Indoor recreation (see standards in § 515-132) and outdoor recreation (see standards in § 515-133).

E. General, service, sales and professional offices.

F. Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments or precision devices, radios, phonographs (including the manufacture of parts), musical instruments, toys, novelties, sporting goods, and photographic equipment, only when fully enclosed within a principal building, subject to the following:

(1) The minimum lot size shall be one acre.

(2) The minimum lot width shall be 175 feet.

(3) The minimum setback from any lot line shall be 50 feet.

G. Medical offices, clinics (excluding hospitals), and research facilities (including accessory laboratories).

H. Meeting halls for union, trade or similar organizations.

I. Offices of an engineering, drafting, architectural, electrical, plumbing, or industrial design firm.

J. Public buildings without outdoor storage.

K. Public parks.

L. Research, experimental, film or testing laboratories.

M. Restaurants (sit down, not fast food).

N. Veterinarian offices, excluding kennels.

O. Warehousing, provided it does not comprise more than 50% of any principal structure on a single lot or, in the case of a multiple building development or an industrial plat or condominium, warehousing shall not comprise more than 50% of the total gross floor area of the development.

P. Manufacture, compounding, processing, assembling, treatment or packaging of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials entirely within a completely enclosed building (excluding large stamping operations, saw and planing mills) subject to the following:

(1) The minimum lot size shall be one acre.

(2) The minimum lot width shall be 175 feet.

(3) The minimum setback from any lot line shall be 50 feet.

Q. Accessory uses and structures incidental to the principal use.

§ 515-57 Special land uses.

The following special land uses may be permitted only after review and approval by the Planning Commission, subject to the requirements and standards of Article XX and the submission of a site plan conforming with the requirements of § 515-100:

A. Cemeteries (§ 515-128).

B. Hospitals (§ 515-143).

C. Hotels and motels (§ 515-144).

D. Nursery schools and child-care centers (§ 515-149).

E. Places of worship (§ 515-153).

F. Skilled trade services, including, but not limited to, plumbing, electric, and heating.

G. Utility structures (§ 515-159) and wireless communication facilities (§ 515-130).

H. Sit-down restaurants (not fast food).

I. Uses which the Planning Commission determines are similar to and compatible with the intent of this section and the special land uses in Article XX.

§ 515-58 Accessory structures and uses.

Accessory buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in accordance with § 515-78, including accessory outdoor storage which conforms with the provisions of § 515-152 (special approval not required).

§ 515-59 Development regulations.

All uses within the IO District shall comply with the following required conditions:

A. Except as otherwise provided in this article, all uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.

B. Outdoor storage is permitted which is clearly accessory to the permitted principal use, limited in scale, incidental to the primary indoor use(s) on the site, and completely screened in accordance with § 515-91.

C. No truck well, loading dock or door shall be permitted on or in the wall of the building which faces an abutting residential district and only pedestrian exits or emergency doors shall be allowed on such wall. All loading/unloading docks and truck wells shall be placed on or in the wall of the building that is opposite the boundary of the residential district or on the wall that lies approximately at a 90° angle to the residential district boundary. If such door, truck well and/or dock faces the front street, then such dock, truck well or door shall be recessed by not less than 60 feet from the front wall of the building in order to provide that a truck tractor and trailer shall not, when in place for loading or unloading at the dock or well, project past the front wall of the building. Also, the site plan and driveways shall be designed in such a manner to discourage truck access to that portion of the lot or site that is adjacent to a residential district.

D. Waste materials of any sort shall be screened from public view by a masonry wall and shall be consolidated in a defined trash receptacle area in conformance with § 515-91K(1).

E. Exterior site lighting shall be in accordance with § 515-90G. In addition, where a building wall faces an abutting residential district there shall be no floodlighting of such facade. This shall not preclude the lighting of doorways on such facades.

F. For all uses permitted in the IO District there shall be a finding by the Planning Commission that:

(1) The scale, size, building design, facade materials, landscaping and activity of the use is such that current and future adjacent residential uses will be protected from any adverse impacts.

(2) The intended truck delivery service can be effectively handled without long-term truck parking on site.

(3) The lighting, noise, vibration, odor and other possible impacts are in compliance with standards and intent of this article and performance standards of § 515-90.

(4) The storage and/or use of any volatile, flammable or other materials shall be fully identified in the application and shall comply with any Village ordinances regarding toxic or hazardous materials.

G. All uses in this district require site plan review and approval. Site plans shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements of § 515-100 of this chapter and shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Commission prior to issuance of a building permit.

H. See Article XVIII, General Provisions, relating to off-street parking, off-street parking layout, landscaping and screening requirements and other sections of the article as they relate to uses permitted in the district.

I. Except where otherwise regulated in this article, refer to Article XVII, Schedule of District Regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, the minimum yard setback requirements and development options.[1]

[1] Editor's Note: The Schedule of District Regulations is included at the end of this chapter.

J. No required front yard space in any IO District shall be used for the storage or parking of vehicles or any other materials or equipment.

K. Prohibited use of open areas: No machinery, equipment, vehicles or other materials shall be stored or parked unless in full accordance with the Village of New Haven Nuisance Ordinance.