53 N State St, Sparta, MI 49345

Business District

The business district is intended primarily for a variety of business, professional office, and retail uses and to accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, and light industrial operations. Managing access to individual properties will receive strong consideration during the review of individual sites. The use of combined drives, service drives, and well-planned access points will be stressed. Efforts will be made to discourage the placement of loading areas, outside storage and other unattractive features in areas clearly visible from the roadway. This district is further intended to provide for uses, which, due to either size or nature, are not well suited for locations within the central business district. This district is structured to permit, along with any other specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material, it being the intent of the district 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 business B district is also intended to: Provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the village's expected future economy for selected types of businesses, manufacturing and related uses.; Protect abutting residential districts from objectionable influences by separating them from business and manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of industrial areas for new residential development.