M-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Any manufacturing, processing, storing or distributing use permitted in M-1
- Agriculture and forestry
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers
- Banks and savings and loan offices
- Business and office supply establishments
- Clinics, medical or dental
- Employment service or agency
- Offices and office buildings
- Restaurant or cafeteria
- Security service office or station
- Trade or business school
- Aircraft and aircraft parts
- Automobile, motorcycle, bus or truck manufacture
- Brick, firebrick, tile or terra cotta and clay products
- Concrete products or central mixing and proportioning plant
- Lumber yard
- Truck stop
- Truck terminal freight
- Wireless communication facilities
- Wood chipping operation
Conditional / special use18
- Acetylene generation and storage
- Alcohol, industrial
- Asphalt or asphalt products
- Automobile wrecking yard
- Bleaching products
- Cider and vinegar
- Cotton ginning
- Distillery (alcoholic), breweries
- Explosives
- Foundries
- Junk yards
- Meat or fish products
- Petroleum bulk storage over 80,000 gallons
- Power generating plant
- Sanitary land fill
- Soap manufacture
- Stone crushing
- Wireless communication facilities
Accessory3
Prohibited2
- New residential development (except watchmen/caretakers and farm dwellings)
- General commercial development (except specified service establishments)
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum corner lot landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.
- Maximum junk pile heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Junk, wrecked vehicles or parts thereof shall not be collected or stored outside the required fence or in piles more than six (6) feet in height.
- Minimum screen fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
surrounded by an opaque structural screen, fence or wall not less than eight (8) feet in height.
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from public street500 ft
No junk yard, salvage yard or automotive wrecking yard or graveyard shall hereafter be established with any portion of its area within five hundred (500) feet of a public street, road or highway.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
Side yards of 50 feet are required if adjacent to a residential district.
- Storm water drainage required
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement.
Signage
- Maximum combined detached sign area250 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
combined sign area does not exceed two hundred fifty (250) square feet
- Maximum detached sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet
- Maximum directional sign area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Directional signs limited in area to eight (8) square feet
- Maximum marquee sign area10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Marquee signs if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to ten (10) square feet.
- Maximum off-premise directional sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs at appropriate locations... limited in area to fifty (50) square feet
- Maximum projecting sign area60 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one (1) for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to sixty (60) square feet.
From the ordinance
Buildings in an M-2 district may be erected up to one hundred (100) feet in height from grade.