26444 Taft Rd, Novi, MI 48375

Light Industrial District

The I-1, Light Industrial district is intended to encourage innovations and variety in type, design and arrangement of land uses, but at all times to protect neighboring residential districts from any adverse impacts. The I-1 district is designed so as to primarily accommodate research, office and light industrial uses, including wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The district is designed to encourage unified complexes of research, office and light industrial uses, with high tech and multi-use facilities characterized by office, light industrial and warehousing activities in a planned environment. The I-1 district is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly or 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 City's expected future economy for all types of research, office, light industrial and related uses.; To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing and related activities by limiting uses which may locate adjacent to such residential districts, by setbacks for buildings and off street parking, by limitation of location of off-street loading/unloading areas, and by landscape planning/berm/wall screens, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development