Permitted uses in Sterling Heights, MI

Permitted by right: one family detached dwellings, agriculture (no livestock or fowl on parcels under 8 acres), city facilities and parks, essential services, site condominiums, model homes, and state licensed residential facilities serving six or fewer people (Section 3.01).

Permitted accessory uses include home occupations, private stables at 2 acres per horse, accessory agricultural sales on 1.5 acre or larger parcels along a major thoroughfare, minor repair of household vehicles, swimming pools no wider than 60 percent of the lot and no longer than 42 feet including attached decks, and accessory banquet or event uses (Section 3.03). Only one principal building is allowed per lot (Section 28.07).

Same use list as all one family districts: one family detached dwellings, small-parcel agriculture without livestock, city facilities, essential services, site condominiums, model homes, and small state licensed residential facilities (Section 3.01), plus the accessory uses of Section 3.03 including home occupations and swimming pools.

Same use list as all one family districts: one family detached dwellings, small-parcel agriculture without livestock, city facilities, essential services, site condominiums, model homes, and small state licensed residential facilities (Section 3.01), plus the accessory uses of Section 3.03 including home occupations and swimming pools.

Same use list as all one family districts: one family detached dwellings, small-parcel agriculture without livestock, city facilities, essential services, site condominiums, model homes, and small state licensed residential facilities (Section 3.01), plus the accessory uses of Section 3.03 including home occupations and swimming pools.

Same use list as all one family districts: one family detached dwellings, small-parcel agriculture without livestock, city facilities, essential services, site condominiums, model homes, and small state licensed residential facilities (Section 3.01), plus the accessory uses of Section 3.03 including home occupations and swimming pools.

Permitted by right: two family dwellings (duplexes), one family detached dwellings regulated as in the abutting one family district, city facilities, essential services, and model homes (Section 4.01). Accessory uses include home occupations under the Section 3.03.D limits, private stables at 2 acres per horse, and accessory agricultural sales on 2 acre or larger parcels along a major thoroughfare; major automotive repair and construction trailers are expressly prohibited (Section 4.03).

Permitted: mobile home parks under Public Act 96 of 1987 and Mobile Home Commission rules, resident clubhouses, pools and recreation facilities, and accessory management and service uses including home occupations (Section 5.01). The park needs frontage on a 120 foot thoroughfare with two access points, paved internal roads, 2 parking spaces per home plus 1 visitor space per 3 sites, skirting on every home, and no outdoor storage under or beside homes (Section 5.03). The special approval land uses of Section 3.02 may also be permitted (Section 5.04).

Permitted: low rise multiple family dwellings including multiplexes, townhouses, apartments, and duplexes, plus independent and limited assistance elderly housing (Section 6.01). Accessory uses include community garages, utility sheds, community buildings, and pools up to 60 feet long (Section 6.03). Site standards require recreation area (300 to 500 square feet per unit by building type), cap continuous building frontage at 180 feet (300 feet for elderly housing), and require at least one enclosed attached garage space per unit in RM-1 outside elderly developments (Section 6.05.A, D, F).

Permitted: low rise multiple family dwellings including multiplexes, townhouses, apartments, and duplexes, plus independent and limited assistance elderly housing (Section 6.01). Accessory uses include community garages, utility sheds, community buildings, and pools up to 60 feet long (Section 6.03). The RM-1 one-garage-space-per-unit requirement does not apply in RM-2 (Section 6.05.F applies to RM-1 only).

Permitted: low rise multiple family dwellings as regulated in RM-2, higher density multiple family on sites with direct access to an 86 foot thoroughfare, and independent and limited assisted elderly housing (Section 7.01). Accessory uses include community garages, sheds, community buildings, and pools up to 60 feet long (Section 7.03).

Permitted, all inside fully enclosed buildings with no drive-through by right: executive and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics (veterinary excluded), professional offices (attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers, and similar), insurance and real estate offices, banks and credit unions, business service offices, and nonprofit organization offices without assembly halls (Section 8.01). Buildings must have brick or stone (or approved similar) exteriors finished uniformly on all sides (Section 8.05.A).

Permitted: all O-1 permitted uses, all O-1 special approval land uses without needing Planning Commission approval, larger-scale office uses, and retail normally associated with office districts such as stationery and office supply stores (Section 9.01).

Permitted: all O-2 permitted uses except mortuaries and funeral homes, photographic and artist studios, teaching studios, data processing and computer centers, and hotels and motels of more than three stories (Section 10.01).

Permitted by right, all inside enclosed buildings: every O-1 office use plus neighborhood retail and services including hardware, paint, grocery, meat and produce markets, bakeries, drugstores, beauty and barber shops, shoe repair, small repair services, video rental, dry cleaning pick-up, liquor stores, bookstores, jewelry, hobby, florists, apparel (no resale shops), dance and martial arts studios up to 5,000 square feet, and supermarkets up to 60,000 square feet on 4 acre sites along a 120 foot thoroughfare (Section 11.01). Outdoor storage and display of merchandise is prohibited (Section 11.01). Buildings must have brick or stone (or approved similar) exteriors, and loading belongs in the rear yard (Section 11.05.A, C).

Permitted, as part of a planned center: every C-1 use without the C-1 size caps, retail nurseries and garden supply, department and general merchandise stores, supermarkets, physical fitness facilities, pet shops, bulk food, apparel, furniture and appliance stores, restaurants (no fast food by right), photographic studios, movie theaters (no adult theaters), museums, dry cleaners, and children's indoor recreation as part of a planned development (Section 12.01).

Permitted by right: every C-2 use, veterinary clinics meeting the Section 11.02.A conditions, building material and garden supply stores without outdoor storage, new and used passenger vehicle dealers on 5 acre or larger parcels, eating and drinking establishments including banquet facilities and fast food (fast food subject to most Section 12.02.D conditions), hotels and motels, mortuaries, tool rental, large appliance repair, automotive supply, and automotive rental (Section 13.01).

Permitted, within enclosed buildings: C-2 retail and services, offices, hotels and inns, private clubs, restaurants and fast food, theaters and concert halls, business and technical schools, health clubs, artist studios and galleries, community centers, indoor recreation, libraries and museums, multiple family residential, common open space and plazas, and automobile service centers integrated into a larger planned center (Section 14.01). Outdoor storage and display is prohibited (Section 14.01).

The only use permitted by right is an off-street surface parking lot (Section 15.01). Parking structures and public utilities may be approved as special land uses (Section 15.02). Ground-mounted solar energy systems are not permitted in P-1 (Section 28.00.J.3).

The Floodplain Area covers FEMA special flood hazard areas from the Macomb County Flood Insurance Study dated 9/29/06 and applies on top of the underlying zoning district, with the stricter rule controlling (Section 16.01-16.03). Permitted: gardening and agriculture, open recreation (parks, golf courses, bridle paths), roads, bridges, dams and utilities designed not to increase flood risk, and surface parking (Section 16.04.A-D). No structure for human habitation, residence, or employment is allowed in the floodplain, and on parcels partly in the floodplain the lowest habitable floor must sit at least 2 feet above the floodplain boundary elevation, with no unmitigated filling (Section 16.04.E-F).

Permitted, wholly inside buildings and limited to the uses on the approved site plan: corporate headquarters, professional offices, research and development and testing facilities including prototypes, educational and design facilities, medical and dental clinics and laboratories, and data processing and computer centers (Section 17.01).

Permitted: research and design facilities, industrial and scientific testing laboratories, executive offices for firms whose plants are located elsewhere, clinics and laboratories, veterinary hospitals, data processing centers with equipment service, professional offices, trade and technical schools, and radio and television studios without towers (Section 18.01).

Permitted, conducted wholly within buildings: all O-R uses, warehousing, wholesale, and mini-warehouses, light manufacturing and assembly from previously prepared materials, printing and publishing, central dry cleaning plants, utility facilities, union halls, trade schools, ambulance services, post offices and DPW yards, building material wholesalers without outdoor storage, and industrial facility redevelopment uses under Section 22.05 (Section 19.01). Every use must meet the Section 19.06 performance standards, including a 65 decibel noise cap at the site line and limits on vibration, smoke, dust, and odors.

Permitted: every M-1 permitted use and M-1 special approval land use, plus heavy manufacturing that keeps its external effects on site, including motor vehicle equipment and parts, farm and heavy machinery, major appliances, brick and block manufacture, sheet metal stamping, and iron, aluminum, and bronze castings (Section 20.01.A-B). Manufacture of explosives, gasoline, and other crude oil by-products is prohibited (Section 20.01.C).

PCD draws its uses from the RM-1, RM-2, RM-3, O-1, O-2, O-3, C-2, and C-3 districts, excluding rehabilitation centers, vehicle dealers and rentals, mortuaries, fuel dealers, adult uses, gas stations, and self storage (Section 21.01.B.1). M-1 uses are allowed only on land that was zoned M-1 or M-2 immediately before the PCD rezoning (Section 21.01.B.3). At least 55 percent of the land and completed ground floor area must be primary uses matching the prior zoning (Section 21.01.B.8).