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City of Mount Clemens Zoning Ordinance
Effective April 24, 2021
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Definitions and Rules of Measurement
or affects a human being, or the generation of an excessive or concentrated movement of
people or things, such as, but not limited to, noise, dust, smoke, odor, glare, fumes, flashes,
vibration, shock waves, heat, electronic or atomic radiation, objectionable effluent, noise
of congregation of people (particularly at night), passenger traffic, and invasion of non-
abutting street frontage by traffic.
NURSERY, PLANT MATERIALS: A space, building or structure, or combination thereof, for the
storage of live trees, shrubs or plants offered for wholesale or retail sale on the premises,
including products used for gardening or landscaping. The definition of nursery within the
meaning of this Ordinance does not include any space, building or structure used for the
sale of fruits, vegetables or Christmas trees.
NURSING HOME (ALSO CONVALESCENT OR REST HOME) : See
HUMAN CARE FACILITIES
NURSERY SCHOOL, DAY SCHOOL, CHILD CENTER: See
HUMAN CARE FACILITIES
OCCUPANCY LOAD: The number of persons that a building can hold, as determined by the
Fire Marshall or as determined by the City Building Code.
OCCUPIED: The word "occupied" includes arranged, designed, built, altered, converted to,
rented or leased, or intended to be occupied.
OUTDOOR RETAIL SALES: Open air business uses not conducted from a wholly enclosed
building, if operated for profit, shall include the following uses:
A. Bicycle, trailer, mobile home, motor vehicle, farm implements, boats, or home equipment
sale or rental services.
B. Outdoor display and sale of garages, swimming pools and similar uses.
C. Retail sales of fruit, vegetables and perishable foods.
D. Retail sale of trees, shrubbery, plants, flowers, seed, topsoil, humus, fertilizer, trellises,
lawn furniture, playground equipment, and other home garden supplies and equipment.
OPEN SPACE: Land used for recreation, resource protection, amenity and/or buffers. In no
event shall any area of a lot constituting the minimum lot area nor any part of an existing or
future road or right-of-way be counted as constituting open space.
OPEN SPACE, COMMON: Open space within or related to a development, not in individually
owned lots or dedicated for public use, but which is designed and intended for the common
use or enjoyment of the residents of the development.
OUTDOOR RETAIL SALES. The retail sales of plant materials, lawn furniture, playground
equipment, and garden or building supplies.
OUTDOOR STORAGE: The keeping, in an unroofed area, of any goods, junk material,
merchandise or vehicles in the same place for more than twenty-four (24) hours.
PARCEL: A continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned by, or recorded as the
property of, the same person or persons.
PARK: Any public or private improved land available for recreational, educational, cultural or
aesthetic use, or scenic purposes.
PARKING, SURFACE: Parking provided at street level. Such parking requires no building
structure to support additional levels of building space or parking area above or below the
at-grade parking area.
PARKING AREA: Any area of a site designated for the use of parking or access to parking
spaces. The parking area shall include all drives, aisles and maneuvering lanes necessary to
accommodate such parking.