It should provide for the comparison shopping, entertainment, convenience, cultural, and service needs for the entire City of Royal Oak area. This district includes and promotes uses which would provide convenient pedestrian shopping along a continuous retail frontage. Automotive related services and other uses which tend to interfere with the continuity of retail frontage and hinder pedestrian circulation are discouraged. Industrial Industrial uses are considered warehousing, research, designing and manufacturing. Such uses are intended to be enclosed within a building and external effects are not to be experienced beyond their property boundaries.
Outdoor storage is intended to be minimal.
Such areas should be located on roads capable of adequately accommodating necessary truck traffic, and should be isolated from residential areas. The industrial designation is designed to primarily accommodate warehousing, research, laboratory, and light manufacturing whose external and physical effects are restricted to the immediate area having only a minimal effect on surrounding districts. Outdoor storage is intended to be minimal. This category is also designed to provide, by special use approval, locations for general industrial activities such as those which involve the use of heavy machinery, extensive amounts of contiguous land, service by railroad lines or major thoroughfares, processing of chemicals or raw materials, assembly, generation of industrial waste, noise, odor, or traffic problems or similar characteristics. These uses would require service by large trucks.