M-3
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Banks and savings and loan offices
- Business and office supply establishments
- Clinics, medical or dental
- Day care center
- Employment service or agency
- Offices and office buildings, studios and the like, business, professional or administrative
- Security service office or station
- Light manufacturing uses as listed in Sec. 18-347(2)
- Agriculture and forestry as permitted in the A-2 agricultural district
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises
- Data processing center
- Exterminating establishment
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service (excluding buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, and substations which are conditional)
- Janitorial service establishments
- Laboratories, research, experimental or testing (but not testing explosives)
- Motion picture studio
- Nursery for growing or propagation of plants, trees and shrubs
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishment, photographic processing, blueprinting, photocopying and similar uses
- Private club
- Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations, parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings (with conditional use permit)
- Radio or television broadcasting studios and offices (but not transmission and receiving towers of height greater than 125 feet)
- Railroad spur tracks
- Sign fabricating and painting
- Telephone exchange or switching facility
- Tire rebuilding or recapping
- Trade or business school (not involving heavy duty construction equipment)
- Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouse or distribution center (but not a truck or freight terminal or truck stop)
- Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427
Conditional / special use2
- Buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, and substations for utility service
- Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations, parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings (unless approved as part of subdivision plan)
Accessory5
- Any accessory use permitted in the A-2 agricultural district
- Coin-operated vending machines for food, tobacco, ice, soft drinks, and sundries inside a building
- Retail and service facilities inside a building primarily for occupants of the industrial development
- Signs as regulated in section 18-349
- Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment or goods normally carried in stock, used or produced in connection with a permitted use
Prohibited8
- Distilling of beverages
- Slaughtering of poultry or animals
- Processing or bulk storage of grain or feeds for animals or poultry
- Truck or freight terminal
- Truck stop
- Testing explosives
- Transmission and receiving towers of height greater than 125 feet
- Open storage of raw, in process, or finished material and supplies or waste material (except screened finished products)
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Fencing must be uniform and durable
All fencing shall have a uniform and durable character and shall be properly maintained.
Other
- Compatibility with nearby properties
Any development within the district shall be designed to promote harmonious relationships with surrounding adjacent and nearby properties.
- All uses in completely enclosed buildings
All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building of permanent and durable construction, with no open storage of raw, in process, or finished material and supplies or waste material.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. landscaping requirement
Any part of the front yard not used for parking or accessways, shall be landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs or pedestrian walks.
- Open storage screening for finished products
Finished or semi-finished products manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened from the street or from a residential district by landscaping, fences or walls.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. 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.
- Similar manufacturing uses permitted
Other manufacturing uses which, in the opinion of the administrator, are of the same general character as those permitted uses listed above shall be permitted.
- Stormwater drainage from parking and loading areas
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 detached sign area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A detached sign, limited in area to one hundred (100) square feet and limited in height to thirty (30) feet.
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.30 ft
A detached sign, limited in area to one hundred (100) square feet and limited in height to thirty (30) feet.
- Maximum directional sign area10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Directional signs of any type, limited in area to ten (10) square feet.
- Maximum flat sign area200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Flat signs limited in area to two hundred (200) square feet, one (1) for each street frontage or one (1) for each industrial building on the premises.
- Maximum industrial subdivision sign area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign limited in area to one hundred (100) square feet and limited in height to fifteen (15) feet giving the name and/or address of management of a planned industrial subdivision.
- Maximum off-premises 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, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public... limited in area to fifty (50) square feet.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the limited industrial district, M-3, is to provide for a wide variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing and warehousing uses... Uses are to be conducted in completely enclosed buildings.