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.
A. 
Permitted principal uses and conditional uses, except for § 275-162C(5).
(1) 
Minimum lot area: two acres for each principal permitted building.
(2) 
Minimum lot width at building line: 150 feet.
(3) 
Minimum lot width at street line: 150 feet.
(4) 
Maximum impervious surface area: 60%.
(5) 
Maximum building coverage: 40%.
(6) 
Minimum depth of front and rear yard: 90 feet.
(7) 
Minimum aggregate width of side yards: 160 feet.
(8) 
Minimum width of each individual side yard: 75 feet.
(9) 
Minimum yard abutting the street on a corner lot: 90 feet.
B. 
Other uses. For certain conditional uses, the area and bulk regulations shall be as follows:
[Added 7-25-2011 by Ord. No. 720]
(1) 
Regional rail facilities.
(a) 
There shall be no minimum tract or lot area requirements.
(b) 
Setbacks for parking garages, parking lots, station buildings and other occupied buildings shall be located no closer than 50 feet from adjacent residential property lines.
(c) 
There shall be no minimum setbacks from the street line.
A. 
Environmental controls. Each permitted use shall comply with the environmental controls contained in Article XXXIII which relate to the characteristics and conduct of a use relative to various air, water and land disturbances.
B. 
Buffer area and landscaping. All uses in the M Districts shall provide and maintain landscaped grounds and make any other suitable screening provision which is necessary to adequately safeguard the character of adjacent districts. Along each property line which directly abuts a residential district, a buffer area not less than 100 feet in width shall be provided, of which at least 30 feet shall be landscaped with trees and shrubs. All buffer areas and landscaping shall be in accordance with Article XXXIV.
C. 
Distance between buildings. The distance at the closest point between buildings or groups of buildings on a lot shall be at least 50 feet.
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.