4444 Forest Street Leonard, MI 48367 1932

The C-1 - Village Commercial District is primarily intended to permit retail business and service uses which provide for the convenient shopping needs of Village residents. Furthermore, the intent is to encourage mixed uses with a Village scale and character. Uses permitted in this district are intended to be compatible with residential structures and surrounding neighborhoods, and are intended to be oriented to pedestrians. In order to promote such development, so far as is possible and appropriate, uses are prohibited which would create hazards, offensive and loud noises, offensive and/or obscene printed language visible from street and/or residential properties, vibration, smoke, glare, heavy truck traffic, or late hours of operation. The intent of this Zoning District is also to encourage the concentration of local businesses to the mutual advantage of both the consumers and merchants and thereby promote the best use of land at certain strategic locations and discourage marginal strip business development along major streets. It is further the intent of this Zoning District to encourage the retention of existing residential structures, either in residential use or converted to other permitted uses, and to ensure that remodeled or new structures will have a character similar to the existing small town character of the Village.