The Manufacturing District established in this
chapter is designed to promote and protect public health, safety and
general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following
purposes:
A. To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations,
to meet the needs of the Town of Westfield's expected future economy
for all types of manufacturing and related activities, with due allowance
for the need for a choice of sites.
B. To minimize impacts on nearby residential and commercial
districts within the Town by prohibiting the use of the Industrial
District for new residential and commercial development, by setting
Manufacturing District standards of performance, and by evaluating
each proposed manufacturing project on a case-by-case basis.
The following are prohibited uses and structures in this district and in the area allotted for manufacturing in the Commercial-Manufacturing District (Article
VIII):
A. The construction or use of any structure or building for dwelling,
except as hereinafter provided for accessory living quarters, or for
use in connection with a junkyard.
[Amended 6-6-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012]
B. The use of land as a junkyard, but not prohibiting
receiving, storing, sorting or other use of reclaimed or recyclable
material as raw material at a manufacturing facility where it is used
in producing a finished product.
C. Nothing in this Article
VII is intended or shall be construed as interfering with or requiring a special use permit to carry on farm or agricultural use of the land within the Manufacturing District. The standards set out in §
185-36 above may not be invoked on behalf of a farm activity newly located in the Manufacturing District after November 10, 1990, in a complaint or an alleged violation against a manufacturing facility or enterprise operating pursuant to a special use permit granted under this Article
VII.