Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right18
- truck terminals
- wood preserving operations
- machinery manufacturing
- paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacturing
- central mixing plant for cement
- petroleum refining, including byproducts
- petroleum storage
- sawmills and planing mills
- brick manufacture
- boiler shops
- junk storage (screened)
- meat, poultry and fish processing
- automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping or battery manufacture
- blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop
- public utilities
- business signs
- general advertising signs
- location signs
Conditional / special use2
Accessory1
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. over 35 feet requires approval
For buildings over 35 feet in height approval shall be obtained from the administrator.
Other
- Blacksmith shop exclusion
Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding 40-ton rated capacity and drop hammers.
- Enclosure of permitted uses
Permitted uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height. Public utilities and signs requiring natural air circulation, unobstructed view, or other technical consideration necessary for proper operation may be exempt from this provision. This exception does not include storing of any materials.
- Screening for existing junkyards
Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this ordinance are to be considered as nonconforming uses. They shall be allowed up to one year after adoption of this ordinance in which to completely screen, on any side open to view from a public road, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area. The plans and execution must take into consideration traffic hazards. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet, and to within 50 feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
- Screening from adjacent districts
Sufficient area shall be provided (a) to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and (b) for off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for corner lots25 ft
The side yard of corner lots shall be 25 feet or more.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
For permitted uses the minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential district shall be 20 feet.
Buildings shall be located 25 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width, or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
In industrial district M-2, buildings to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses: ...