M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right54
- An apartment or living quarters for a guard, caretaker, proprietor or the person employed on the premises, which is clearly secondary to the commercial or industrial use of the property
- Business and professional offices
- Child day care centers as an accessory use to other permitted uses
- Data processing centers
- Firearms sales and service
- Health and exercise clubs, fitness centers as an accessory use to other permitted uses
- Indoor sport facilities, including firing and shooting ranges
- Janitorial service establishments
- Kennels and animal boarding facilities
- Laboratories, research and development centers
- Laser technology production
- Marine or waterfront businesses to include the receipt, storage and transshipment of waterborne commerce or seafood receiving, packaging or distribution
- Medical clinics or offices, including emergency care and first aid centers as an accessory use to other permitted uses
- Nurseries
- Printing, mailing, lithographing, engraving, photocopying, blueprinting and publishing establishments
- Research, development and design facilities or laboratories
- Restaurants, tea rooms, coffee shops, taverns, and micro-breweries, not to include fast food restaurants as an accessory use to other permitted uses
- Security service offices
- Veterinary hospitals (with all activities limited to a fully enclosed building with the exception of supervised animal exercise)
- Warehousing, wholesaling, storage and distribution centers
- Water well drilling establishments
- Fire stations
- Governmental offices
- Nonemergency medical transport
- Post offices
- Telephone exchanges and telephone switching stations
- Boiler shops
- Breweries and other associated activities
- Drop forge industries, manufacturing, forgings with a power hammer
- Industrial dry cleaners or laundries
- Industrial or technical training centers or schools
- Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps
- Manufacture and processing of acrylic and synthetic fibers
- Manufacture and processing of textiles and textile products
- Manufacture and sale of manufactured homes, mobile homes, modular homes and industrialized housing units
- Manufacture and sale of wood and wood products
- Manufacture and storage of ice, including dry ice
- Manufacture, assembly, or fabrication of sheet metal products
- Manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of products made from previously prepared paper, plastic, metal, textiles, tobacco, wood, paint, fiberglass, glass, rubber, leather, cellophane, canvas, felt, fur, horn, wax, hair, yarn, and stone
- Manufacture, compounding, processing and packaging of cosmetics, toiletries and pharmaceutical products
- Manufacture of batteries
- Manufacture of boats, marine equipment and boat trailers
- Manufacture of cans and other metal products from previously processed metals
- Manufacture of carpets and carpet yarns
- Manufacture of furniture
- Manufacture of glass and glass products
- Manufacture of pottery and ceramic products using kilns fired by gas or electricity
- Manufacture or assembly of appliances, tools, firearms, hardware products and heating, cooling or ventilation equipment
- Manufacture or assembly of automobiles, trucks, machinery or equipment
- Manufacture or assembly of electronic instruments, electronic devices or electronic components
- Metal foundry and heavy weight casting
- Recycling center or plant
- Structural iron and steel fabrication
- Welding and machine shops including punch presses and drop hammers
Conditional / special use23
- Heliports, helistops and accessory uses
- Hospitals
- Outdoor centers of amusement, including miniature golf, bumper boats and waterslide parks
- Outdoor sports facilities, including golf courses, driving ranges, batting cages and skate parks
- Pawnshops
- Payday/title loan establishments
- Schools
- Asphalt mixing plants
- Crushed stone, sand, gravel, or mineral mining; storage and distribution of same
- Data centers
- Manufacture and compounding of chemicals
- Manufacture, compounding, processing or packaging of food and food products, but not the slaughter of animals
- Manufacture of cement, lime, gypsum, bricks and non-previously prepared stone products (i.e., stone and rock used for general erosion and sediment control or road construction)
- Petroleum refining
- Petroleum storage and retail distribution
- Processing, assembly and manufacture of light industrial products or components, with all storage, processing, assembly and manufacture conducted indoors or under cover, with no dust, noise, odor or other objectionable effect
- Propane storage, distribution or sale
- Ready mix concrete production
- Resource recovery facilities
- Solid waste transfer stations and container sites, public or private
- Vehicle graveyards and scrap metal storage yards
- Waste disposal facilities
- Wood preserving operations
Accessory1
- An apartment or living quarters for a guard, caretaker, proprietor or the person employed on the premises, which is clearly secondary to the commercial or industrial use of the property
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line10 ft
Accessory structures may be located within the required side or rear yards upon approval of the planning director; provided, however, that no structure shall be located within ten feet of any property line.
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limitation waiver for structures over 60 feet60 ft
Structures in excess of 60 feet in height from grade to the top of the structure may be erected only upon the granting of a height limitation waiver by the board of supervisors.
- Landscaping requirements
Landscaping on the properties within the district shall comply with article II, division 4 of this chapter.
- Outdoor operations and storage
Any commercial or industrial operation or storage conducted in whole or in part out-of-doors, shall meet the requirements of section 24-98(c) of this chapter.
- Public water and sewer required
All development in the General Industrial District, M-2, shall be served by public water and sewer unless this requirement is waived in accordance with section 24-447.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase when across from residential75 ft
The minimum setback shall also be increased to a minimum of 75 feet from any street with a right-of-way 50 feet or greater in width and 100 feet from any street with a right-of-way of less than 50 feet of width when the property immediately across the street is zoned residential.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for structures over 35 feet1 ft per 3 ft over 35
The minimum setback of any portion of a structure which is in excess of 35 feet in height shall be increased one foot for each three feet of the structure's height in excess of 35 feet.
- Site plan review required
All structures or complexes of structures erected, altered or restored within the district shall be subject to Site Plan Review in accordance with article III of this chapter.
- Side/rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase when adjoining residential75 ft
The minimum side yard shall be increased to 75 feet if the side yard adjoins property in a residential district, or an agricultural district that is designated for residential use on the Comprehensive Plan. The minimum rear yard shall be increased to 75 feet if the rear yard adjoins property in a residential district or an agricultural district that is designated for residential use on the Comprehensive Plan.
Parking
Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be provided as required in article II, division 2 of this chapter.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Outdoor signs on the properties within the district shall comply with the regulations for exterior signs in article II, division 3 of this chapter.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size shall be 10,000 square feet. Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width. Structures may be erected up to 60 feet in height.
Use details
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"conditional_uses": [
"Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges and switching stations. Spur lines which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad rights-of-way and track and safety improvements in existing railroad rights-of-way, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Transmission pipelines, public or private, including pumping stations and accessory storage, for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids. Extensions for private connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit",
"Water facilities (public or private) and sewer facilities (public), including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, wells and associated equipment, such as pumps to be owned and operated by political jurisdictions. The following are permitted generally and shall not require a special use permit: (a) Private connections to existing mains that are intended to serve an individual customer and that are accessory to existing or proposed development, with no additional connections to be made to the line; and (b) Distribution lines and local facilities within a development, including pump stations"
]
}
}