less intense industrial uses, such as research facilities, wholesale, warehousing, light industrial, and heavy commercial uses. The uses in this district should be buffered from daily services and residences. Uses should occur mostly in enclosed buildings
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heavy commercial
Named in 1 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.
How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Emporia’s own text settles what this covers.