[Added 9-5-2017]
[Amended 8-5-2025 by Ord. No. 25-82]
The purpose of the Olde Canal Industrial District is to provide areas within the Town of Gorham for manufacturing, processing, research, warehousing, heavy equipment sales, and large-scale office buildings; and to which end all the performance standards set forth in this Land Use and Development Code shall apply.
[Amended 7-7-2020; 4-6-2021; 7-5-2022; 8-5-2025 by Ord. No. 25-82; 10-7-2025 by Ord. No. 25-108]
The following are permitted uses in the Olde Canal Industrial District:
A. 
Manufacturing, processing and treatment.
B. 
Warehousing and outdoor storage.
C. 
Road distribution facilities.
D. 
Research facilities.
E. 
Wholesale businesses and wholesale business establishments, but excluding junkyards.
F. 
Accessory uses and buildings, including retail and service uses accessory to another permitted use, and also including a caretaker unit for residential use, provided that there shall be no more than one residential unit on a property and such unit shall be resided in by an owner of the property, an employee of the industrial operation, or a person who serves as a security person. In the event that the principal industrial use or other permitted use terminates, then the accessory residential use shall also terminate.
G. 
Municipal and governmental uses.
H. 
Public utility facilities, including substations, pumping stations and sewage treatment plants.
I. 
Heavy machinery and equipment retail sales and service.
J. 
Office buildings with over 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.
K. 
Hotel, with or without convention halls.
L. 
For-profit schools.
M. 
Cannabis cultivation or manufacturing facility.
N. 
Medical cannabis business.
O. 
Office of contractor or tradesperson.
P. 
Indoor recreation facility.
Q. 
Outdoor recreation facility.
R. 
Indoor shooting range.
S. 
Commercial food production.
A. 
Standards.
(1) 
Minimum area of lot: 60,000 square feet.
(2) 
Minimum street frontage: 100 feet.
(3) 
Minimum front yards: 30 feet; except where the front yard abuts a residential use or district, in which case a minimum of 50 feet shall be provided.
(4) 
Minimum side and rear yards: 20 feet; except as otherwise required by the buffer provisions of this Land Use and Development Code and except where the side and/or rear yards abut a residential use or district, in which case a minimum of 30 feet or 50% of the building or outdoor stored material height, whichever is greater, shall be required.
(5) 
Maximum building height: None.
(6) 
Maximum building coverage: None.
B. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of this § 300-1.115, an auxiliary public utility structure is exempt from the minimum lot size and street frontage requirements of this district. Structures must meet setback requirements. Additional screening and buffering can be requested by the Planning Board.