44547 Mound Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48314

Multi Use District

The C-4 Multi Use District is established to encourage a diversity of compatible land uses, which may include a mixture of residential, office, retail, recreational, office research and other miscellaneous uses within an aesthetically attractive environment conducive to the development and protection against nuisance type uses and combinations.; Development shall be guided by an approved project development plan that conforms with public places and policies and is implemented through the use of the special approval land use and site plan review processes. The project development is intended to accomplish the following: Help create major new multi use developments in planned locations with appropriate densities, heights and mixtures of uses; Encourage areas devoted primarily to pedestrians by separating pedestrian from vehicular circulation patterns and by requiring off-street parking spaces in accordance with this objective and with the objectives of an approved project development plan; Encourage originality, flexibility and innovation in site planning and development, including architecture, landscaping and graphic design, in a manner compatible and harmonious with adjoining development and within the district as a whole; Make recreation areas more accessible to the district’s residents, visitors and nearby residential and commercial areas; Create environments conducive to a higher quality of life and surroundings for residents, businesses, employees and institutions, as specified in the City of Sterling Heights plans and policies. It is further the intent that multi use be applied only to those areas where a mixture of uses and building intensities is designed and arranged to carry out elements of the city’s Master Land Use Plan, in pursuit of the goals for land use, population, transportation, housing, public facilities and environmental quality. In these designated areas, the mixture of uses and building intensities shall be intended to promote and protect the public health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity and general welfare of the city.; The multi use area and any other affected area shall be provided with adequate public facilities, services and transportation networks to support the proposed uses; or such facilities, services and transportation networks should be planned to be provided concurrently with the development of the project.; Uses which are not compatible with the overall intent of this district and which may include activities that would serve to detract from the design and function of this district are prohibited.