Light Commercial

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=25 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #999980;" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Roscommon Township</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>     |     </B></FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Roscommon Township"><B>home</B></A><B>     </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Land Use"><B>Land Use</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0418dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>Light Commercial</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Statement of Purpose.</B></div> <bR> <div> This district is designed to provide retail sales and commercial service uses catering to the general public as distinguished from industrial or general business customers.</div> <bR> <div> <B>SECTION 9/1.1    Permitted Uses: </B>(Rev. 5/02)</div> <bR> <div>      A.  Retail sales businesses where no assembling, treatment or manufacturing is required.</div> <bR> <div>      B.  Offices.</div> <bR> <div>      C.  Banks, building and loan associations, and other lending institutions.</div> <bR> <div>      D.  Funeral parlors.</div> <bR> <div>      E.  Restaurants.</div> <bR> <div>      F.  Essential public utility services.</div> <bR> <div>      G.  Indoor theaters.</div> <bR> <div>      H.  Hotels, motels, and apartment houses, and condominiums.</div> <bR> <div>      I.  Barber shops and beauty parlors.</div> <bR> <div>      J.  Shoe repair shops</div> <bR> <div>      K.  Churches.</div> <bR> <div>      L.  Golf courses; clubhouses and related accessory compliments including, but not limited to, pro shop; locker room; restaurant; and lounge.</div> <bR> <div>      M.  Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the foregoing, not including any manufacturing or treatment activities.</div> <bR> <div>      N.  Any use permitted in the R-1 Residential district, may be permitted in this district, provided they meet with all of the regulations of the R-1 Residential district.</div> <bR> <div>      O.  Any lot used for residential purposes shall have a minimum of 12,000 square feet.</div> <bR> <div> <B>SECTION 9/1.2    Special Exception Uses:</B></div> <bR> <div>      A.  Automatic dry cleaning or laundry facilities.</div> <div>                     <B>   (9/1.2 SPECIAL EXCEPTION USES - C  LIGHT COMMERCIAL)</B>   Page 2          </div> <div>      B.  Gasoline stations.</div> <bR> <div>      C.  Automobile repair garages</div> <bR> <div>      D.  Outdoor automobile sales.</div> <bR> <div>      E.  Indoor commercial recreation facilities.</div> <bR> <div>      F.  A complex or development of a multiple number of "permitted" or designated "special exceptions" uses which do not comply with all conditions and limitations pertinent thereto but which still comply with the spirit of this Ordinance with the approval of the Planning Commission under the procedure and standards specified in the ordinance for special exception uses.</div> <bR> <div>      G.  Bed and Breakfast.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>SECTION 9/1.3</B>    <B>OFF-STREET PARKING OF MOTOR VEHICLES</B></div> <bR> <div>      A.  Every property owner shall provide and maintain at all times an adequate number of      off-street parking spaces, and the necessary loading and unloading facilities associated      thereto in each district for all occupants, employees and patrons of said property.</div> <bR> <div>      B.  A plan showing the required parking and loading spaces including the means of      access and interior circulation, except for one-family and two-family dwellings, shall be      provided at the time of application for a building permit and a Land Use Permit for the      erection or enlargement of any building.</div> <bR> <div>      C.  Parking space shall be provided in the manner and location herein specified.</div> <bR> <div> 1.  No parking area, parking space or loading space which exists at the time this Ordinance becomes effective or which subsequent thereto is provided for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this Ordinance shall not thereafter be relinquished or reduced in any manner below the requirements established by this Ordinance unless additional parking area or space is provided sufficient for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this Ordinance within 300 feet of the proposed or existing uses for which such parking will be available.</div> <bR> <div>      D.  Requirements for all parking spaces and parking lots:</div> <bR> <div> 1.  Each automobile parking space shall not be less than 200 square feet nor less than 10 feet wide exclusive of driveway and aisle space.</div> <div>      </div> <div>           2.  All off-street parking facilities shall be drained so as to prevent damage to      abutting properties or public streets and shall be constructed of materials which      will have a dust-free surface resistant to erosion.</div> <div>                     <B>   (9/1.3 OFF STREET PARKING - C  LIGHT COMMERCIAL)</B>  Page 3  </div> <bR> <bR> <div>           3.  Any lighting fixtures used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so      arranged as to reflect  the light away from any adjoining residential lots.</div> <bR> <div>           4.  No parking space shall be closer than five feet from the property line.</div> <bR> <div> 5.  Off-street parking facilities in non-residential zones shall be effectively screened on any side which adjoins or faces property in any residential zone by a wall, fence or compact planting not less than four feet or more than eight feet in height.  Plantings shall be maintained in good condition and not encroach on adjoining property.  Screening shall not be so placed or maintained as to provide a traffic hazard through obstruction of visibility.</div> <bR> <div>           6.  All off-street parking areas that make it necessary for vehicles to back out                directly into a public road are prohibited, provided that this prohibition shall not                apply to off-street parking areas of one or two-family dwellings.</div> <bR> <div> 7.  Space for all necessary loading and unloading operations for light commercial, must be provided in addition to the required off-street parking space.  All loading and unloading operations must be carried on entirely within the lot area of the use it serves and shall not interfere with pedestrian or vehicular movement.</div> <bR> <div>           8.  No loading or unloading shall be permitted on any public street or road.  No                open loading dock shall be erected on the sides of buildings fronting on any                street.  Enclosed truck loading docks may be located on the sides of buildings                fronting on the street, providing that the truck doors are set back a minimum of                100 feet from the property line abutting the street and shall be screened by                approved landscaping or equal material.</div> <bR> <div>           9.  Requirements for the provision of parking facilities with respect to two or more           property uses of the same or different types may be satisfied by the permanent                allocation of the requisite number of spaces for each use in common parking                facility, cooperatively established and operated, provided that the number of                spaces designated is not less than the sum of individual requirements and                provided further that the specifications in regard to location, plan, etc., are                complied with.</div> <bR> <div>           10.  The number of parking spaces required for land or buildings used for two or                more purposes shall be the sum of the requirements for the various individual                uses, computed in accordance with this section;  parking facilities for one use                shall not be considered as providing the required parking facilities for any other                use.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                          <B>   (9/1.3 OFF STREET PARKING - C LIGHT COMMERCIAL)</B>  Page 4                                     </div> <div>      E.  MINIMUM REQUIRED PARKING :</div> <bR> <div>           1.  Apartment houses:  Two parking spaces for family unit.</div> <bR> <div> 2.  Office building:  One parking space for each 200 feet of floor space utilized for work space for employees.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>           3.  Retail stores, supermarkets, department stores, personal service shops, and                shopping centers:  One parking space for each 100 square feet area in the                basement and on the first floor used for retail sales; one space for each 150                square feet of floor area on the second floor used for retail sales; one space for                each 300 square feet of floor area on the third floor used for retail sales; and one           space for each 400 square feet of any additional floor used for retail sales.</div> <bR> <div>           4.  Libraries, museums and post offices:  One parking space for each 100 square           feet of floor area.</div> <bR> <div>           5.  Bowling alleys:  Three parking spaces for each alley.</div> <bR> <div>           6.  Motels and tourist homes:  One parking space for each separate unit.</div> <bR> <div>           7.  Theaters, auditoriums, stadiums, and churches:  One parking space for each                four seats.</div> <bR> <div>           8.  Assembly halls and convention halls without fixed seats:  One parking space                for each 100 square feet of floor area if to be used for dancing or assembly.</div> <bR> <div>           9.  Restaurants and night clubs:  One parking space for each 100 square feet of                floor area.</div> <bR> <div>           10.  Roadside stand:  Two parking spaces for each 40 feet of road frontage.</div> <bR> <div>      F.  Other uses not specifically mentioned:  In the case of buildings which are used for uses not specifically mentioned, those provisions for off-street parking facilities for a use which is so mentioned and to which said use is similar in terms of parking demand shall apply.</div> <bR> <div> G.  Mixed uses in the same building:  In the case of mixed uses in the same building the amount of parking space for each use specified shall be provided and the space for one use shall not be considered as providing required spaces for any other use except as to churches and auditoriums incidental to public and parochial schools permitted herein.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                                              <B>( 9 - C  LIGHT COMMERCIAL)</B>  Page 5     </div> <bR> <div> <B>SECTION 9/1.4</B>  <B>VARIANCES</B></div> <bR> <div> The Zoning Board of Appeals shall have authority to grant variances from the foregoing where it is satisfied under the circumstances prevailing that the requirements for off-street parking are unnecessarily too large for the particular development.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>SECTION 9/1.5    AREA REGULATIONS </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Amend 4/04)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> No commercial building of commercial structure nor the enlargement of the same shall be erected unless the following yard area requirements are provided and maintained:</div> <bR> <div>      A.  Building Setback - There shall be a minimum setback of sixty (60) feet from the curb of State Highway M-55 for all commercial buildings or structures located along said addressStreetState Highway.  Commercial buildings or structures located in this district other than along State Highway M-55 shall have a minimum setback of thirty-five (35) feet from the roadway easement.</div> <bR> <div>      B.  Side Yard - There shall be a minimum side yard requirement of ten (10) feet from roof's edge for fire protection, etc.  Corner lots shall have a side yard setback of at least twenty-five (25) feet on the street side.</div> <bR> <div>      C.  Rear Yard - A rear yard of at least twenty-five (25) feet must be maintained.</div> <bR> <div>      D.  The Roscommon Township Land Use Officer, hereafter referred to as the Land Use Officer, shall have the authority to approve non-conforming access ramps provided the following criteria are met:</div> <bR> <div>           1.  The Land Use Officer determines that access is not feasible at any other location of structure.</div> <div>           </div> <div>           2.  The greatest set-back will be maintained by determination of the Land Use Officer.</div> <bR> <div>           3.  No access, in any event shall be wider than (6) six feet, including any overhang, five feet without any overhang.</div> <bR> <div>           4.  The Land Use Officer may, however, refer such requests he deems extraordinary to the Zoning Board of Appeals.</div> <bR> <div>           5.  Access meets applicable placeCityADA "Americans with Disabilities Act", Public Law 101-336.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>