| Area Description: |
Ypsilanti Township (Y-Town), located east of Ann Arbor, is the largest township in Washtenaw County and the seventh largest in the State of Michigan. Y-Town has over 53,000 residents and spans 32 square miles with close proximity to Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan and Willow Run Airports, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan.
Y-Town has partnered with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Ann Arbor SPARK, Michigan Small Business Development Center and the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce, to guide our community in economic development and community growth.
We have the benefit of sharing the community vibe, recreation, culinary and arts scene of the City of Ypsilanti as well as Ann Arbor as a progressive, vibrant and growing area. |
| Zoning Description: |
The OS-1 districts are designed to accommodate uses such as offices, banks and personal services which can serve as transitional areas between residential and commercial districts and to provide a transition between major thoroughfares and residential districts. Sec. 801. - Principal uses permitted: In an office service district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this ordinance:
1.Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting and sales subject to the limitations contained below in sec. 803, Required Conditions.
2.Medical offices, including clinics.
3.Facilities for human care such as hospitals, sanitariums, rest and convalescent homes.
4.Off-street parking lots.
5.Churches.
6.State-licensed residential child and adult care facilities as provided for in section 2122.
7.Other uses similar to the above uses.
8.Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above permitted uses.
(Ord. No. 99-205, 3-16-99)
Sec. 802. - Uses permitted subject to special conditions: The following uses may be permitted upon the granting of a permit for such use by the planning commission subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use, and subject further to such other reasonable conditions which, in the opinion of the commission, are necessary to provide adequate protection to the neighborhood and to abutting properties and subject further to a public hearing held in accord with sec. 2309 and further shall be reviewed as provided for in sec. 2119:
1.An accessory use customarily related to a principal use authorized by this section, such as but not limited to: a pharmacy or apothecary shop, stores limited to corrective garments or bandages, or optical service, may be permitted.
2.Mortuary establishments, when adequate assembly area is provided off street for vehicles to be used in funeral processions, provided further that such assembly area shall be provided in addition to any required off-street parking area. A caretaker's residence may be provided within the building of mortuary establishments.
3.Publicly owned buildings, telephone exchange buildings, and public utility offices, transformer stations, substations, or gas regulator stations, but not including storage yards.
4.Private clubs, fraternal organizations and lodge halls provided the following conditions are met:
a.The site abuts a major thoroughfare as designated on the township future land use plan.
b.Access to and from the site can be safely provided to the satisfaction of the county road commission.
c.No building or parking area shall be located closer than 50 feet to a property line.
d.All parking shall be screened from view of all abutting residential districts.
e.Outdoor lighting of a type and location which will not be a nuisance to abutting residential districts shall be provided and any outdoor lighting shall conform with the guidelines set forth in sec. 2110 of the zoning ordinance.
5.Veterinary clinics, when such use is conducted entirely within an enclosed building. No animal kennels or animal runs shall be allowed outside the principal building. Animal kennels or runs within a principal building shall provide no windows which can be opened to the outside.
6.State-licensed residential child and adult care facilities as provided for in section 2122.
7.Restaurants in which service is wholly within the building and no drive-in facilities are provided subject to the following conditions:
a.Such facility, if located adjacent to a residential zoning district boundary, shall have a setback of not less than 20 feet on those sides abutting such residential zoning district.
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