Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right21
- animal hospital
- automotive sales
- automotive repair (including body shops and upholstery)
- automotive service station
- bakeries
- building and construction materials sales
- contractor services (electrical, plastering, plumbing, exterminating, air conditioning, heating, cement, caterer)
- equipment rental or leasing agency (including mobile homes, trucks and recreation vehicles)
- food freezer plant for service, storage, or food packaging
- furniture repair
- furniture manufacturing
- kennel (including dog grooming)
- meat cutting or distribution (retail or wholesale)
- metal working and welding shops
- motor rebuilding
- warehousing (including wholesale distribution of any commodity except explosives)
- adult businesses
- cabinet and wood shops
- tire retreading, recapping, rebuilding
- manufacturing, processing, or fabrication of any commodity (except prohibited items)
- alcoholic beverage production use
Conditional / special use22
- building materials storage and sales yard
- carpet cleaning plants
- contractor's storage yard
- loading areas
- plumbing shop and supply yard
- public utility sub-station or equipment yard
- storage or sales lots for all types of vehicles (except automobile wrecking)
- parking lots for vehicles and loading areas
- dispensing of retail to vehicles with minor automotive repairs
- accessory outdoor eating areas to restaurants
- accessory flower or plant sales areas to established florists shops or garden centers or nurseries
- any use under subsection A.(1) for which outside storage is desired
- recycling facilities (reverse vending machines and small collection facilities)
- commercial communications facilities, wireless communications facilities
- recreational uses
- restaurants
- retail store
- theaters
- recycling facilities (large collection facilities and processing facilities)
- mini-warehouse and self-storage facilities
- refuse transfer station
- material recovery facilities
Accessory1
Prohibited43
- abrasives
- animal by-products
- carbon black
- lamp black
- bone black
- charcoal
- chemicals (heavy or industrial)
- coke
- cement (Portland and similar)
- detergents
- soap and by-products using animal fat
- fertilizers
- fungicides
- gas other than nitrogen and oxygen
- glass
- glue and size
- grain milling
- graphite
- gypsum and other forms of plaster base
- insecticides
- insulation
- junk
- matches
- meat and poultry (slaughtering)
- metals (extraction or smelting)
- oils and fats
- paints
- pigments
- enamels
- japans
- lacquers
- putty
- varnishes
- whiting and wood fillers
- paper pulp and cellulose
- paraffin and wax
- petroleum and petroleum products (refining)
- hazardous materials
- hazardous substances
- permanent disposal of any of the above
- quonset huts or buildings resembling quonset huts
- portable storage containers and detached storage structures (unless authorized as part of permanent structure)
- temporary shade structures (except less than 100 sq ft for accessory activities)
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Screening walls/fences
All required walls or fences shall be high enough to screen all storage or operations from view to persons on the street.
Lighting
- Lighting requirements
All lighting shall be designed, installed and maintained to project the light primarily on the owner's property. This may require the use of shields, and may limit the location, type and height of light fixtures. Any light falling on adjacent properties shall be minimal and incidental.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. roof equipment
Accessory roof equipment will be permitted only if it is housed within structures which are architecturally compatible with the design of the building and designed to screen their view from any person on the street or an adjacent site and to attenuate noise.
- All uses must be enclosed
All uses shall be conducted within enclosed buildings except those allowed in the approval of a site development plan, as provided for in this chapter.
- Fire access and protection
Fire access, fire hydrants, water service and other fire protection facilities shall be provided in accordance with fire standards established by city council resolution.
- Portable storage containers
Portable storage containers and detached storage structures are only permitted when authorized as part of a permanent structure subject to the appropriate site plan approval and building permits.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. building types
Building types commonly referred to as quonset huts or buildings resembling quonset huts shall not be permitted.
- Property maintenance
All yards and other open spaces around buildings shall be kept free of waste, litter, junk, or storage of any material... All approved landscaped areas shall be properly maintained... All driveways and parking areas shall be graded, hard surfaced, and maintained... All fences and structures shall be kept in good condition... Attractive nuisances dangerous to children... are prohibited.
- Temporary shade structures
Temporary shade structures for parking or storage of vehicles, equipment, containers, merchandise or activities related to the operation of a business or permitted use are not permitted, except when the portable structure is less than one hundred square feet and used for permitted accessory activities such as outdoor employee eating areas.
- Trash and recycling enclosures
All new developments over 2,500 square feet in building area... shall provide trash enclosures containing trash dumpsters and areas for the storage of recyclable materials. Enclosures should be located at least 20 feet back from any public street measured from the street curb. All trash enclosures shall be constructed of solid masonry walls with solid gates...
- Underground utilities
All public utility services shall be provided underground.
From the ordinance
This chapter establishes permission, regulations and requirements for the establishment and continuance of uses, structures and lots for industrial purposes... Zone M (Industrial Service and Manufacturing).