The provisions of this article are meant to encourage the sound and reasonable development of industrial areas within the City. Permitted uses shall not be objectionable because of odor, dust, smoke, noise, noxious gas, fumes, cinders, vibrations, refuse matter or water-carried waste. (See Article
IX and Chapter
154, Erosion and Sediment Control.) Performance standards, parking specifications and yard regulations are set forth in this chapter to assure industrial development compatible with adjacent uses. In the industrial districts, the land and structures may be erected, altered enlarged and maintained for the following uses only. The specific purposes of the industrial districts are as follows:
A. The M-1 Restricted Industrial District provides space for the development
of high-standard, precision industries in a protected environment.
The district regulations are designed to encourage harmonious and
appropriate industrial development that contributes to the stability
of the economic base of the City and otherwise furthers the purposes
set forth in this section.
B. The M-2 General Industrial District provides space for a wider range of industrial and manufacturing activity under conditions and standards which protect adjacent properties from adverse or objectionable influences. (See §
300-85.)
(Including certain stated special exceptions. See Article
XVIII and §
300-164. All uses not listed are subject to review and approval of Planning Commission and other reviewing bodies.)
A. M-1 and M-2 Districts.
(1) Accessory uses. (See §§
300-95,
300-164); need not be within an enclosed building.
(2) Automobile services including major repair, painting, upholstering, tire retreading or recapping, battery manufacture and the like. (See §
300-44B.)
(4) Gasoline service station. (See §§
300-44C,
300-91,
300-94.) No stands, racks or other paraphernalia, other than, or in direct connection with, merchandise offered for sale, shall be located outside a completely enclosed building. (See §§
300-44B.)
(5) Boat building, sale, assembly or repair.
(6) Building materials sales establishment.
(8) Distribution plant, including parcel delivery, ice and cold storage
plant, bottling plant and food commissary or catering establishment.
(11)
Laboratories, dental, medical or research. (See §
300-83.)
(12)
Landscape gardener's sales and area or business.
(14)
Light manufacturing, including sales and indoor display, manufacturing, assembling and repair (in building where made) of small electrical or mechanical machines and appliances; small musical and precision instruments, phonographs, radios, telephones, televisions, or other instruments or machines for receiving, reproducing or transmitting sound; watches, clocks, toys and novelties; rubber and metal hand stamps; metal products of a light nature including heating and ventilating ducts, cornices, eaves and the like; and also including plumbing, heating or electrical contracting businesses. (See §
300-164.)
(16)
Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity. (See §
300-85.)
(17)
Manufacturing, assembling, repairing, compounding, fabricating, treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared material (not employing a boiling process): bone, canvas, cellophane, clay, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paint; also paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shells, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood (but not including heavy woodworking shop) and yarns. (See §§
300-75,
300-85.)
(18)
Manufacture, canning, packaging, processing, treatment of such products as beverages, cosmetics, drugs, perfumed toilet soaps, perfumes, pharmaceuticals and food products not including fish smoking, curing, canning, rendering of fats and oils or the slaughter of animals. (See §
300-85.)
(19)
Mobile home and trailer sales.
(20)
Office, professional or business.
(21)
Printing, lithographing, type composition, ruling and binding
establishment.
(22)
School, vocational (industrial or trade).
(23)
Warehousing, with the same restrictions as Subsection
B(31), Storage, hereof. (See §
300-75.)
(25)
Uses found in C Districts (subject to approval).
B. M-2 District.
(2) Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture. (See §
300-77.)
(5) Blast furnace or coke oven. (See §
300-77.)
(9) Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacturing.
(10)
Building, mover and wrecker's establishment.
(12)
Cleaning and dyeing establishment, using nonflammable cleaning
fluids.
(13)
Concrete or cement products manufacture.
(14)
Contractor's establishment, including sales and storage of equipment
and supplies.
(16)
Drop forge industry manufacturing forging with power hammers.
(17)
Fuel (except gasoline) sales establishments.
(18)
Feed-mixing plant and sales establishments.
(19)
Freight transport terminal, interstate trucking.
(20)
Iron or steel or other metal manufacture or treatment, foundry
or fabrication plant and heavyweight casting.
(21)
Lumber storage, heavy woodworking shops, millwork and sales.
(23)
Manufacturing; general and heavy. (See §
300-85.)
(24)
Office, in conjunction with, and on the same zoning lot with,
an industrial plant development provided the gross floor area does
not exceed 50% of the area of the zoning lot.
(25)
Ore reduction and general smelting operations.
(26)
Rock, sand or gravel distribution and sales.
(28)
Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture or treatments.
(31)
Storage, not including explosives, inflammables, garbage, offal
or dead animals.
(32)
Terminal warehousing or transfer depot.
[Added 12-12-2011 by Ord. No. 5-2011]
Permitted in the Industrial (I) District:
A. Oil and gas wells, oil and gas development, natural gas compressor
stations, natural gas processing plants and related equipment.
Cabinet making may be permitted in an industrial zone provided:
A. The business (manufacturing) is conducted entirely under an approved
structure.
B. The structure cannot be closer than 100 feet to any adjacent structure
on another lot.
C. The waste (sawdust) is removed from the site, contained or treated
to prevent burning.
D. All other applicable provisions of this chapter apply.