M-3
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Battery manufacture
- Punch presses exceeding 40-ton rated capacity and drop hammers
- Sand and gravel operations
- Crushed stone operations
- Wood-preserving operations
- Abattoirs
- Acid manufacture
- Cement, lime and gypsum manufacture
- Fertilizer manufacture
- Petroleum refining including byproducts
- Asphalt mixing plants
- Paper and pulp manufacture
- Screened junk storage
- Cogeneration plants
- Materials recovery facilities, resource recovery/reclamation operations
- All M-2 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 for on-site generation
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.