M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right2
- Any use permitted in the M-1 district
- Any use or structure not permitted in any other district (subject to City Council authorization for listed uses)
Conditional / special use18
- Curing, smoking, packing or storing of fish
- Incinerating, reducing, dumping or storing of offal, dead animals, garbage or refuse
- Manufacturing or refining of ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, celluloid, pyroxylin and explosive or flammable products
- Manufacturing or storage of sulphurous, sulphuric, nitric, picric, hydrochloric or other corrosive acid
- Medical waste management facilities
- Flea markets
- Nightclubs
- Outdoor shooting ranges
- Private penal institutions
- Public and private alternative incarceration domiciliary facilities
- Refining of tallow, grease or lard
- Refining of petroleum products
- Rendering of fat
- Retail sales of liquor
- Sales, storage or disposal of used tires in bulk
- Storage of dyestuffs, explosives and pyrotechnics
- Storage of petroleum products in bulk for distribution beyond metropolitan area
- Retail sales of tobacco and hemp
Accessory1
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Additional heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. ratio0.5 ft/ft
Additional height permitted when all portions over 45 ft are set back from side and rear lot lines a minimum of one foot for each two feet of height in excess of 45 ft.
- Street centerline inclined plane3 ratio
No portion of a building shall penetrate an inclined plane originating at the centerline of an abutting street and extending over the lot at an inclination of one foot horizontal for each three feet vertical.
Other
- Junkyard screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Automobile junkyards and similar uses involving outside storage of scrapped or junked materials shall be screened from view from public streets, public spaces and adjacent properties in an R or RO district by opaque structural fences or walls not less than six feet in height.
- Nuisance prohibition
No building or premises shall be used for any purpose permitted in the M-2 district in such a manner as to constitute a nuisance by the creation of unreasonably loud and disturbing sound or noise; unreasonable vibrations; unreasonable danger from explosion or fire; or the unreasonable emission of smoke, odor, dust, heat or glare.
- Side lot line screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Where a side lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen or opaque structural fence or wall not less than six feet in height erected along such lot line, but not within 15 feet of any street line.
From the ordinance
No building or structure shall exceed 45 feet in height... Where a side lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen or opaque structural fence or wall not less than six feet in height...