[Amended 10-2-2017 by Ord. No. 17-10]
A.
In the Manufacturing Zone (M), no building or premises shall be used
and no building shall be erected or altered which is arranged, intended
or designed to be used except for one or more of the following uses
and complying with the requirements so indicated. Except as otherwise
noted or defined separately, all uses mentioned in the Manufacturing
Zone (M) can be referenced in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual of 1987.
B.
Purpose. The purpose of the Manufacturing Zone is to provide locations
for the development of light- to moderate-intensity manufacturing,
office, warehouse, wholesale, and research establishments and to provide
employment opportunities in the manufacturing industry in close proximity
to the City.
C.
Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the Manufacturing
Zone:
(1)
Manufacturing, assembling, converting, altering, finishing, printing,
publishing, cleaning, or any other processing, handling, or storage
of products or materials such as scientific and precision instruments,
photographic equipment, household appliances, communications equipment,
household video and audio equipment, electric lighting and wiring
equipment, toys, sporting and athletic goods or equipment, watches
and clocks, millwork and furniture production, textile and clothing
products, prefabricated and modular housing components, agricultural
implements and farm machinery, grain mills (animal feed only), commercial
printing and bookbinding, fabricated metal products, general industrial
machinery and equipment, cut stone and stone products, HVAC equipment,
and other similar uses as determined by the City Manager.
(2)
Research, design, and development laboratories.
(3)
Wholesale storage, warehousing and distribution facilities, building
contractors' yards, and lumberyards.
(4)
Public utility or quasi-public utility uses. Quasi-public utility
uses shall include but not be limited to transmission and/or receiving
towers for radio and television service for public or private use.
(5)
Breweries, distilleries, and wineries.
(6)
Food processing, including beverage blending or bottling, bakery
products, candy manufacturing, dairy products and ice cream, and fruit
and vegetable processing and canning, but not including flour mills,
meatpacking and processing or slaughterhouses.
(7)
Credit card or application processing or mailing business.
(8)
Nursery, commercial greenhouse, and garden and agriculture supply
sales.
D.
Conditional uses. See Article XVI, Conditional Use Permits.
(1)
The following are conditional uses in the Manufacturing Zone:
(a)
Grain elevators, grain storage facilities, and feed mills.
(b)
Flour mills.
(c)
Manufacturing of bricks, cement, concrete, and related products.
(d)
Meatpacking and processing facilities.
(e)
Recycling centers and processing facilities.
(f)
Sawmills.
(g)
Waste-to-energy plants and facilities.
(h)
Wholesale storage and distribution of gasoline and other petroleum
products.
(2)
All conditional uses in the Manufacturing District shall require
a setback of 250 feet from the nearest residential dwelling, church,
or school.
E.
All uses except sawmills, lumberyards, and building contractors'
yards shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with
no open storage of raw, in-process, or finished material and supplies
or waste material, except that finished or semi-finished products
manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened
from the street by a landscaped screen, fence, or wall.
F.
The front yard shall be maintained in a neat and attractive condition.
G.
All fencing shall have a uniform and durable character and shall
be properly maintained.
H.
Vegetative screening and/or fencing is required when the use abuts
a residential, commercial, or mixed used zoning district. The width,
height, and material of screening shall be approved by the Planning
Commission or City Manager.
[Amended 8-17-2015 by Ord. No. 15-10; 10-2-2017 by Ord. No. 17-10]
B.
Manufacturing uses involving asphalt, hot mix, asphalt bituminous
concrete, charcoal, and fuel briquettes.
C.
Manufacturing uses involving primary production of the following
products from raw materials: chemicals: aniline dyes, ammonia, carbide,
caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black and bone black, creosote,
hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrates (manufactured and
natural) of an explosive nature, potash, plastic and synthetic resins,
pyroxylin, rayon yarn, and hydrochloric, nitric, phosphoric, picric,
and sulphuric acids; coal, coke, and tar products, including gas manufacturing;
explosives; synthetic fertilizers; gelatin, glue, and size (animal);
linoleum and oil cloth; matches; paint, varnishes, and turpentine;
rubber (natural and synthetic); soaps, including fat rendering; and
starch.
D.
The following processes: nitrating of cotton or other materials;
magnesium foundry; reduction, refining, smelting, and alloying of
metal or metal ores; refining secondary aluminum; refining petroleum
products, such as gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, and lubricating oil;
distillation of wood or bones; and chemical reduction and processing
of wood pulp and fiber, including papermill operations.
E.
Operations involving stockyards and slaughterhouses.
F.
Storage of explosives.
G.
Quarries, stone crushers, screening plants, and storage of quarry
screenings, accessory to such uses.
H.
Junkyards, automobile dismantling plants or storage of used parts
of automobiles or other machines or vehicles or of dismantled or junked
automobiles.
I.
Accessory uses shall not be permitted without a principal use.
The following minimums must be observed:
A.
Lot width: 100 feet.
B.
Lot depth: 100 feet.
C.
Front, side, and rear yard: 20 feet each.
D.
No part of any building, accessory structure, or sign shall be located
closer than 100 feet to any residential zone boundary, unless approved
by the Planning Commission.
E.
No parking or storage of material or products shall be permitted
in the required front yard.
Height limitations in the M Zone shall be 45 feet.
Additional regulations may apply, including, but not limited
to:
