The M Manufacturing and Industrial District
is designed primarily to meet the special requirements of the Township's
older, established industrial areas and to provide standards for the
possible extension of general industrial development on the same lot
or tract. The district regulations are intended to provide for a broad
range of industrial and related activities which are responsive to
the demands of modern industrial development. The regulations are
also intended to safeguard adjoining properties and to avoid environmental
disturbances.
A building or combination of buildings on a lot or within an industrial district may be erected, altered or used, and a lot or premises may be used, subject to the provisions in Articles
XXIX and
XXX, for any of the following purposes:
A. Permitted principal uses.
(1)
Scientific or industrial research, testing or
experimental laboratory or similar establishment for research or product
development, provided that no processing shall be permitted except
insofar as such processing is incidental to a research, experimental
or testing process.
(2)
Office building or office.
(3)
Manufacture and assembly of small home, commercial
and industrial electrical appliances, supplies and equipment (not
including electrical machinery); electrical or electronic instruments
and devices, such as precision instruments and measuring and control
devices; medical, dental, drafting and similar scientific and professional
instruments; optical goods and equipment; clocks and watches; and
jewelry, cameras and photographic equipment.
(4)
Manufacture and packaging of products from previously
prepared and manufactured materials, such as canvas, cloth, glass,
fur, feathers, felt, leather, paper, wood and plastics, including
clothing and other textile products.
(5)
Printing, publishing, book binding or similar
establishments.
(6)
Processing of dairy and confectionery products.
(7)
Light metal processes, including metal finishing,
grinding, polishing and heat treatment, metal cutting and extrusion
of small products (such as costume jewelry and pins); assembly and
manufacture of radio and television receivers; manufacture of light
machinery (such as business machines).
(8)
Indoor storage building or warehouse, to include
warehousing known as "mini storage," consisting of multiple warehouses
which are either leased or sold; bottling establishment.
(9)
Governmental or public utility use or building.
(10)
An industrial park designed to accommodate or
comprise a group of any of the industrial uses permitted in this district.
(11)
Communications antennas mounted on an existing
public utility transmission tower, building or other structure and
communications equipment buildings.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord. No. 588]
B. Accessory uses to permitted principal uses.
(1)
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses, which use may include
living quarters for watchmen and a restaurant or cafeteria facility
for employees and occupants of a permitted use.
(2)
Parking in accordance with Article
XXXI.
(3)
Signs in accordance with Article
XXXII.
C. Conditional uses.
(1)
Any use permitted in the B Business District,
except for a restaurant, personal service shop, motel, place of amusement,
dwelling or similar use.
(2)
Distributing or trucking establishment.
(3)
Food products processing.
(4)
Chemical processes not involving noxious odors
or danger from fire or explosion; compounding of perfumes and pharmaceutical
products.
(5)
Quarrying, provided that the minimum tract area
is 10 acres.
(6)
Any use of the same general character as any
use permitted in this district above, not to include use normally
considered as "heavy industry," including, but not limited to, such
uses as abattoir, distillation of bones, coal or wood; the manufacture
of fertilizer, fireworks, explosives, iron or steel, linoleum, paint
or rubber; petroleum refining; leather tanning, or any use substantially
similar thereto.
(7)
Communications towers, subject to the standards for communications towers as conditional uses set forth at §
275-216.1, and communications equipment buildings, subject to the regulations set forth in §
275-216 of Article
XXXIV.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord. No. 588]
(8) Regional
rail facilities.
[Added 7-25-2011 by Ord. No. 720]
The maximum height of buildings and other structures erected, enlarged or used shall be 55 feet, except as provided in the Article
XXXIV, Special Provisions, which provides for exceptions to height regulations for certain structures.
Each application for a permit to erect, construct or alter any building within a M Manufacturing District or to modify a previously approved plan shall comply with the applicable provisions of Article
XXXIV relating to plan submittal and review.