M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right19
- Truck terminals
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping
- Blacksmith shops, welding or machine shops
- Building material sales yards and plumbing supplies storage
- Contractors' equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors
- Petroleum storage
- Sawmills and planing mills
- Brick manufacture
- Boiler shops
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Public utilities
- Conservation areas
- Game preserves
- General advertising signs
- Location signs
- Concrete products or central mixing and proportioning plants
- Agriculture (accessory structures only)
- Vehicle impound facility
- All M-1 permitted uses
Conditional / special use2
Accessory2
- Accessory uses and structures as defined
- Roof- or ground-mounted small solar energy facility or large-scale solar energy facility (generating energy for that structure)
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Noise
- Maximum noise level60 dBA
In M Zoning Districts, the average noise shall not exceed a noise level of 60 dBA at adjoining property lines.
Other
- Cash bond required
A cash bond, in an amount determined by the board of supervisors, must be posted by the applicant to ensure reclamation.
- Security fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.7 ft
shall be enclosed by a seven-foot-high security type fence
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for BESS217,800 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Tier 2 battery energy storage systems shall have a minimum lot size of five acres
- Screening required
The site must be screened from all property lines.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines
Tier 2 battery energy storage systems shall comply with the setback requirements of the underlying zoning district for principal structures or 100 feet, whichever is greatest.
- Vegetation clearance from BESS20 ft
Areas within 20 feet on each side of tier 2 battery energy storage systems shall be cleared of combustible vegetation
From the ordinance
Tier 2 battery energy storage systems are permitted through the issuance of a special exception... Sanitary landfills are permitted by a special exception in M-2 and M-3 districts only in conjunction with the reclamation of land.