8160 Embury Rd, Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Light Industrial District

The I-1 Industrial Districts are designed so as to primarily accommodate industrial parks wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and in no manner detrimentally affect any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material. It is further intended that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form, to be used in an industrial operation at another location, not be permitted. The general goals of this use district include, among others, the following specific purposes: To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the Municipality's expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses; To protect abutting Residential Districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development; To promote manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor and other objectionable influences; and To protect the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well considered plan. To protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the Municipality's tax revenue.