33120 Ryan Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48310

Local Convenience Business District

The C-1 Local Convenience Business District is designated to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and service needs of persons residing in adjacent residential areas. Protection of nearby residential districts is considered of importance; thus, businesses which tend to be a nuisance to immediately surrounding residential areas are excluded, even though the goods sold or services offered might fall within the convenience classification.; It is further the intent of this district to provide these goods and services in a physical setting that is compatible with surrounding residential neighborhoods and which are of a neighborhood size and character. Whenever possible, local convenience business districts should be developed with consolidated site features to provide for a continuity of appearance and function and to minimize any negative impacts on nearby residential neighborhoods or the city’s thoroughfare system. A more intense use, such as a supermarket, shall be permitted in this district only if: the goods and services offered from within the use are limited to those which are permissible under the permitted uses of that district; and the proposed use primarily serves the convenience needs of the immediately surrounding residential areas rather than satisfying the convenience and comparison shopping needs of a broader market area.