§ 17. M-2 Heavy Manufacturing Zone.
A.
The regulations set forth in this section or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, when referred to in this section, are the regulations in the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing Zone. The purpose of this zone is to provide for industrial operations of all types except that certain potentially hazardous or nuisance-type industries as specified in Subsection B.3. below are permitted only after public hearing and review to ensure protection of the public interest and surrounding property and persons.
B.
Use Regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes. All uses customarily incidental to the building or premises shall be maintained on site.
1.
Prohibited Uses. The following uses are prohibited in this zone: Church, library, school, hospital, or any residential use, except that each individual industrial use may provide accommodations for one resident watchman or caretaker employed on the premises, provided that such accommodations are not used for commercial, industrial or office purposes.
2.
Permissive Uses:
a.
Any permissive or conditional use listed in the M-1 zone.
b.
Boiler works.
c.
Iron or steel foundry or fabrication plant, forging, rolling, or heavy weight casting.
d.
Manufacture of the following:
(1)
Acetylene gas.
(2)
Alcohol.
(3)
Asphalt.
(4)
Brick, tile, terra cotta.
(5)
Chemicals.
(6)
Paint, oil (including linseed), shellac, turpentine, lacquer, varnish.
(7)
Petroleum byproducts.
(8)
Plastics.
(9)
Soap.
(10)
Sodium compounds.
(11)
Tar products.
e.
Milling, manufacturing, and related processing of cement.
f.
Railroad repair shops.
g.
Salvage yard for storage and sale of used materials such as metal, rope, paper, glass, leather, rags, lumber, plastic, and equipment made of these materials, provided the yard is enclosed by a solid fence or wall at least six feet high on all sides facing or abutting land zoned A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H.
3.
Conditional Uses. The following uses may be permitted only if approved by the Zoning Administrator in accordance with the procedures and under the conditions set out in the Administrative Section of this ordinance with additional requirements deemed necessary to safeguard the best interest of the adjoining property, neighborhood and the community.
a.
Distillation of bones.
b.
Fat rendering.
c.
Manufacture or industrial storage of the following:
(1)
Fertilizer.
(2)
Glue.
(3)
Lime, gypsum, plaster of Paris.
(4)
Ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine.
(5)
Oilcloth, linoleum.
(6)
Pyroxylin.
(7)
Stove or shoe polish.
d.
Stockyard, feeding pen.
e.
Slaughter of animals.
f.
Tannery, curing of raw hides.
g.
Wool pulling or scouring.
h.
Manufacture or storage of explosives.
i.
Blast furnace, coke oven.
C.
Height Regulations. None.
D.
Area Regulations:
1.
The front, side and rear yard regulations are the same as those in the M-1 Light Industrial Zone.
2.
Off-Street Parking Spaces, Loading and Unloading Spaces. Off-street parking spaces, and loading and unloading spaces shall be provided in accordance with requirements for specific uses set forth in the Off-Street Parking, Loading and Unloading Regulation Section of this ordinance.
E.
Landscape and Buffer Landscaping. Nonresidential uses facing or abutting on a principal or minor arterial, as identified in the Long Range Major Street Plan, shall provide landscaping as provided and regulated in the Landscaping and Buffer Landscaping Regulations Section of this ordinance.
(Ord. No. 92-18, 12-15-92; Ord. No. 2006-3, § 1, 2-14-06; Ord. No. 2010-2, 1-26-10, eff. 2-25-10; Ord. No. 2012-12, § 1, 6-26-12)