M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right1
- Encourage the discontinuance of existing uses that would not be permitted as new uses under the provisions of this chapt
Conditional / special use34
- Any use permitted by right or with a conditional use permit in a business, limited, B-1 district, a business, general, B-2 district, or a industrial, limited, M-1 district, except that use as a dwelling will only be permitted for purposes of occupancy by a guard, caretaker, or watchman
- Acid manufacturing
- Asphalt mixing plant
- Boiler shops
- Brick manufacturing
- Bottling plants
- Business signs
- Cement, lime or gypsum manufacturing
- Community centers
- Conservation areas
- Crushed stone operations
- Distribution centers
- Facilities, activities and operations that are provided by a duly constituted unit of government
- Farming and agricultural uses
- Fertilizer manufacturing
- Fireworks or explosives manufacturing
- General advertising signs
- Ice manufacturing and packaging
- Junk storage
- Location signs
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Off-street parking as required by this chapter
- Outdoor amusement/entertainment areas
- Paper and pulp manufacture
- Petroleum refining, including byproducts
- Petroleum storage
- Public utilities, and industrial waste disposal facilities located on the same site as, and used for the storage and disposal of industrial waste produced by, a public utility
- Retail sales outlets within industrial-use buildings
- Sand and gravel operations
- Sheet metal and metal fabrication shops
- Small wind energy systems
- Truck terminals
- Wood-preserving operations
- Small scale solar energy facilities
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Enclosure of uses
Permitted uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.
Landscaping & trees
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet, and to within 50 feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
Other
- Action on applications30 days
The administrator shall act on any application received within 30 days after receiving the application.
- Plan submission
Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted uses in the industrial, general, district M-2, or a permit issued for a new use, the plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study.
- Screening from adjacent business and residential districts
Sufficient area shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and for off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential or agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
The minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential or agricultural district shall be 50 feet.
Buildings shall be located 10 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width, or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
The primary purpose of the industrial, general, district M-2 is to establish an area where the principal use of land is for heavy commercial and industrial operations.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"prohibited_uses": [
"Any use which might be injurious or noxious by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration, glare, noise, or other cause which may be deemed as hazardous to the health, welfare, and/or safety of any part of the county",
"All nonconforming uses shall not be allowed to expand facilities"
]
}
}