The purpose of this district is to provide areas
for industrial uses which are of lesser magnitude and intensity than
uses permitted in industrial districts.
Permitted principal uses shall be as follows:
A.
Offices.
C.
Manufacturing of light machinery such as office machines,
sewing machines, cash registers and small machine parts.
D.
Fabrication of bicycles, carriages and other nonmotorized
vehicles; metal foil; furniture; musical instruments; and toys.
E.
Fabrication of paper and wood products.
F.
Preparation of bakery products, bottling and canning
of food and beverages.
G.
Laboratories.
H.
Manufacture of brushes and brooms, electronic parts,
farm machinery, glass and glass products, jewelry, leather products,
sporting goods, textiles, thread and yarn.
Permitted accessory uses in the SM District
shall be as follows:
A.
Off-street parking.
B.
Fences and walls.
C.
Garages and storage buildings.
D.
Temporary construction trailers and one sign, not
exceeding 50 square feet, advertising the prime contractor, subcontractor,
architect, financing institution and similar data for the period of
construction, beginning with the issuance of a building permit and
concluding with the issuance of an occupancy permit, or a period of
one year, whichever is less, provided that said trailer and sign are
on the site where the construction is taking place.
No building shall exceed 30 feet in height or
two stories.
Each building shall have a minimum gross floor
area of 2,000 square feet.
A.
Any principal building may contain more than one use
and/or organization. Any lot may contain more than one principal structure,
provided that each principal structure is located in a manner which
will allow the possibility of subdividing the lot in a manner that
each structure and resulting lot would conform to the zoning and subdivision
regulations, including frontage on a public street.
B.
At least the first 75 feet adjacent to any street
line and 20 feet adjacent to any lot line shall not be used for parking
and shall be planted and maintained as lawn area, ground cover or
landscaped with evergreen shrubbery and separated from the parking
area by poured concrete or Belgian block curbing.
C.
No merchandise, products, waste or similar material
or objects shall be displayed or stored outside.
D.
All buildings shall be compatibly designed, whether
constructed all at one time or in stages over a period of time. All
building walls facing any street or residential district shall be
suitably finished for aesthetic purposes, which shall not include
unpainted or painted cinder block walls.
E.
All portions of the property not utilized by buildings
or paved surfaces shall be landscaped, utilizing combinations such
as landscaped fencing, shrubbery, lawn area, ground cover, rock formations,
contours, existing foliage and the planting of conifers and/or deciduous
trees native to the area in order to either maintain or reestablish
the tone of the vegetation in the area and lessen the visual impact
of the structures and paved areas. The established grades on any site
shall be planned for both aesthetic and drainage purposes. The grading
plan, drainage facilities and landscaping shall be coordinated to
prevent erosion and silting, as well as assuring that the capacity
of and natural or man-made drainage system is sufficient to handle
the water generated and anticipated both from the site and contributing
upstream areas.
F.
A minimum buffer area of 50 feet in width shall be
provided along any common property line with a residential district
or residential use.
Minimum off-street parking shall be provided
as follows:
A.
One space for every 1,000 square feet or fraction
thereof of floor area used for storage and warehousing, plus one space
for every 700 square feet or fraction thereof of floor area used for
manufacturing, plus one space for every 200 square feet or fraction
thereof of floor area used for offices, subject to adjustment according
to the projected number of on-site employees.
B.
In addition, one space for every vehicle owned and/or
operated by the use operating from that site shall be provided.
C.
In any event, each use shall provide a sufficient
number of spaces in appropriate locations so that no driveway, aisle,
fire lane or street right-of-way is used at any time for parking.
Minimum off-street loading shall be provided
as follows:
A.
Each activity shall provide for off-street loading
and unloading, with adequate ingress and egress from streets, and
shall provide such area at the side or rear of the building. Each
space shall be at least 15 feet by 40 feet, and one space shall be
provided for every 8,000 square feet of gross floor area or fraction
thereof in each building. There shall be no loading or unloading from
the street.
B.
There shall be at least one trash and garbage pickup
location provided by each building, which shall be separated from
the parking spaces by either a location within the building or in
a pickup location outside the building, which shall be a steel-like,
totally enclosed container located in a manner to be obscured from
view from parking areas, streets and adjacent residential uses or
zoning districts by a fence, wall, planting or combination of the
three. If located within the building, the doorway may serve both
the loading and trash/garbage functions. If a container is used for
trash/garbage functions and is located outside the building, it may
be located adjacent to or within the general loading area, provided
that the container in no way interferes with or restricts loading
and unloading functions.
C.
All off-street loading areas shall be sufficiently
and adequately lighted.
One lighted sign per use, not larger than the
equivalent of 5% of the area of the front wall of the building or
100 square feet, whichever is smaller, shall be permitted. If attached
to the building, the sign shall not be higher than the roofline, and,
if freestanding, the sign shall not exceed six feet in height and
shall be set back from the right-of-way line at least one foot.
[Added 12-21-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-30]
Any property having frontage on Railroad Avenue
and located in the SM Zoning District that is actually developed and
in use for single-family residential purposes as of December 7, 2005,
and that are listed by block and lot herein, shall be bound by the
RA Zoning District standards so long as the property continues to
be actively used for residential purposes. In the event of the abandonment
or discontinuance of the residential use for a period of one year,
the property shall thereafter be bound by the SM Zoning District standards.
The foregoing exemption is applicable to the following properties:
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Block
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Lot(s)
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147.01
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15.01, 15.02, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 5.01, 5.02,
6.01, 6.02, 3.03, 3.04
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