Chapter 2 Zoning Districts Part 5 Industrial Zoning Districts

2.5.1 M-1 Industrial District

The following provisions shall apply in the M-l Industrial District unless otherwise provided in these regulations:

1. Permitted Uses:
   
   Accessory uses or buildings: those uses allowed shall be subordinate, customary and incidental to the permitted primary uses, including retail sale, rental or repair of items manufactured or assembled on site. Any accessory structure must meet site and other requirements of this zone. Under no circumstances will uses appropriate only in the M-3 zone be allowed in this zone as accessory uses
   Agricultural uses
   Automobile parking areas, public and private
   Auxiliary commercial uses: the following commercial uses shall be permitted only when subordinate and incidental to areas of
          existing industrial use:
          Branch offices of banks, savings and loans and similar financial institutions
          Convenience grocery stores
          Credit unions
          Restaurants as permitted in the C-1 District
          Vehicle service stations or repair
   Contractor’s shop, including but not limited to building, electrical, HVAC, landscape, and plumbing contractors, provided all operations are confined within a building
   Carting and light local deliveries
   Churches, parish halls and temples
   Dwellings, only in connection with bona fide agricultural operations, or as living quarters for bona fide caretakers and/or for watchmen and their families
   Greenhouses, wholesale
   Indoor paint ball ranges
   Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, but not including combustion type motor-testing
   Medical laboratories
   Office buildings, as accessory uses only
   Telecommunications hotels
   Temporary buildings, the uses of which are incidental to construction operations being conducted on the same or adjoining lot or tract, and which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of such construc­tion, or upon the expiration of a period of two years from the time of erection of such temporary buildings, whichever is sooner
   Warehouse, storage, including mini-warehouses
   Wholesale houses and distributors, provided the operation is enclosed in a building
   Uses, manufacture, processing, treatment, or storage of the following, providing all operations permitted, including storage, must be confined within a building (uses located totally within the caverns developed under a Conditional Use Permit for Underground Space shall be con­sidered to meet the requirement of confinement within a building)­
   Adhesives, excluding manufacturing of basic components
   Awnings, metal
   Beverage (non-alcoholic) manufacture
   Beverage, blending and bottling
   Blacksmith
   Bookbinding
   Broom and brush
   Button manufacture, except button blanks from shell
   Carbon paper and ink ribbons
   Carpenter, cabinet making, and pattern shops
   Chemicals (packing only)
   Clay products of handicraft nature including ceramics, pottery, tile (glazed), or similar products
   Cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats and rugs
   Clocks and watches
   Cloth products, including canvas, clothing, garments
   Computers and related equipment
   Cosmetics or toiletries
   Electronic measuring instrument and electrical control devices
   Electrical appliance and apparatus assembly (small), including fans, fixtures, hot-plates, irons, mixers, motion picture equipment (home), phonographs, radios, television sets, toasters, toys, or similar products, but not including electrical machinery
   Electrical supplies, including cable and wire assemblies, batteries (dry cell), insulation, lamps, switches, or similar supplies
   Flowers, artificial
   Food processing, including bakery products (wholesale), candy manufacture, coffee, tea, and spices (processing and packaging), creamery and dairy operations, ice cream manufacture, macaroni and noodle manufacture, oleomargarine (compounding and packaging only)
   Fur finishing and fur goods, not including tanning, dyeing
   Glass products from previously manufactured glass
   Hair, felt, or feather products
   Hat finishing and millinery from straw and other fibers
   Ink or ink ribbon, packaging
   Instruments, accessories and supplies used in medical diagnosis and treatment
   Jewelry
   Latex paints (water base)
   Leather products manufacture (no tanning operations), including shoes, machine belting, or similar products
   Luggage
   Machines, business, including accounting machines, calculators, card­ counting equipment, typewriters, or similar products
   Medical appliances, including braces, limbs, stretchers, supports, or similar appliances
   Motion picture production
   Musical instruments (including pianos and organs)
   Novelty products (from prepared materials)
   Optical equipment
   Paper products, including bags, boxes, bulk goods, containers (ship­ping), envelopes, interior packaging components, stationery, tubes, wallpaper, or similar products
   Pharmaceutical products (compounding only)
   Photographic equipment
   Plastic molding and shaping, excluding manufacturing of basic compo­nents
   Precision instruments
   Printing, publishing, engraving, including photo-engraving
   Scenery construction
   Sheet metal shops
   Signs and displays (non-metal )
   Soaps or detergents, including washing or cleaning powder or soda, packaging only
   Statuary and art goods, other than stone and concrete, including church art, figurines, mannequins, religious art, (excluding foundry operations)
   Stamp (hand), stencils, and brands
   Toys and games
   Trade and business schools
   Umbrellas and parasols
   Upholstery and furniture shops, wholesale
   Vehicles, children's, including baby carriages, bicycles, scooters, wagons, or similar vehicles
   Window shades, Venetian blinds, awnings, tarpaulins, and canvas specialties
   Wood products, including furniture, baskets, boxes, crates, or similar products, and copperage works (except copperage stockmill)
   Those uses which are more similar in type and intensity to the above list of uses than to uses listed elsewhere in these regulations.
2. Conditional Uses:
   
   Certain uses may be permitted in this district upon the granting of a Conditional Use Permit by the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Refer to Chapter 4 Part 2 for a listing of uses and requirements that apply to specific uses.
3. Property Development Regulations:
   
   Refer to the applicable Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building heights and other restrictions.
4. Maximum Density and FAR
   1. Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 2.0
   2. Maximum Density: None

2.5.2 M-2 Industrial District

The following provisions shall apply in the M-2 Industrial District unless otherwise provided in these regulations.

1. Permitted Uses:
   
   Accessory uses or buildings: those uses allowed shall be subordinate, customary and incidental to the permitted primary uses, including retail sale, rental or repair of items manufactured or assembled on site. Any accessory structure must meet site and other requirements of this zone. Under no circumstances will uses appropriate only in the M-3 zone be allowed in this zone as accessory uses.
   All uses permitted in the M-1 District
   Building materials (cement, lime, sand, gravel, lumber, and the like), storage and sales
   Bus garage and repair shop
   Exposition building or center
   Fairgrounds
   Flea market
   Lumber yards
   Railroad freight terminals and yards
   River terminals
   Storage yard or contractor’s shop, including but not limited to building, electrical, HVAC, landscape, and plumbing contractors; outdoor storage of material and equipment permitted
   Training schools (industrial and vocational) including combustion engine schools
   Truck or transfer terminal, freight and motor freight and motor freight stations
   Truck (greater than two tons) and other heavy motor driven vehicles: sales, rental, repair and storage
   Warehouses, produce and storage
   Waterfront shipping
   Wholesale houses and distributors
   Wholesale markets (goods not contained in totally enclosed buildings)
   Uses, manufacture, processing, treatment, or storage of the following:
   Air conditioning, commercial
   Aircraft and aircraft parts
   Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication, and forming
   Animal pound
   Apparel or other textile products from textiles or other materials, including hat bodies of fur, wool, felt, or similar products
   Assembly and repair of automobiles, bicycles, carriages, engines (new and rebuilt), motorcycles, trailers, trucks, wagons, including parts Athletic or sports equipment, including balls, baskets, bats, cues, racquets, rods, or similar products
   Baskets and hampers (wood, reed, rattan, and the like)
   Battery, storage (wet cell)
   Bedding (mattress, pillow, quilt), including rebuilding or renovating
   Boat manufacturing and repair
   Box and crate
   Carpet, rug, mat
   Clay, stone, glass products
   Coal and coke, storage and sales
   Concrete products (except central mixing and proportioning plant)
   Culverts
   Distilleries, breweries, and non-industrial alcoholic spirits
   Firearms
   Food processing, including chewing gum, chocolate, cocoa and cocoa products; condensed and evaporated milk, processing and canning; flour, feed and grain (packaging, blending, and storage only); food products except slaughtering of meat or preparation of fish for packing; fruit and vegetable processing (including canning, preserving, drying, and freezing); gelatin products; glucose and dextrine; malt products; meat products, packing and processing (no slaughtering); yeast
   Foundry products (electrical only)
   Furniture
   Grain blending and packaging, but not milling
   Hardware, products or tools, including bolts, brads, cutlery, door knobs, drills, hinges, household items, locks, metal casting (nonferrous), nails, needles and pins, nuts, plumbing appliances, rivets, screws, spikes, staples, tools (hand), or similar products
   Heating, ventilating, cooking, and refrigerating supplies and appliances
   Hosiery mill
   Household appliances, electrical and gas, including stoves, refrigera­tors, washing machines, clothes dryers, and similar products
   Ice, dry or natural
   Implements, agricultural or farm
   Ink manufacture (mixing only)
   Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical compounds (blending only)
   Iron or steel (ornamental), miscellaneous, fabrication or assembly, including steel cabinets, doors, fencing, metal furniture, or similar products; cleaning, grinding, heat treatment, metal fin­ishing, plating, polishing, rust proofing, sharpening, or similar processes
   Machine, tool, die, and gauge shops
   Machine, tools, including metal lathes, metal presses, metal-stamping machines, wood-working machines, or the like
   Millwork and planing
   Motion picture equipment, commercial
   Paint and coating, except manufacturing gun cotton nitro-cellulose lacquers and reactive resin cooking
   Pencils
   Perfumes or perfumed soaps, commercial
   Plating, electrolytic process
   Plumbing supplies
   Poultry or rabbit, packing or slaughtering (wholesale)
   Pottery and porcelain products
   Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including paper-mache products)
   Rubber and synthetic-treated fabric products (excluding all rubber or synthetic processing) such as washers, gloves, footwear, bathing caps, atomizers, or similar products
   Safes and vaults
   Sheet metal products from metal stamping or extrusion, including containers, costume jewelry, pins and needles, razor blades, bottle caps, buttons, kitchen utensils, or similar products
   Shipping containers (corrugated board, fiber or wire-bound)
   Silverware, plate or sterling
   Textiles and fibers into fabric goods; spinning, weaving, knitting, manufacturing, dyeing, printing and finishing of goods, yarns, knit goods, threads, and cordage
   Tire re-treading and vulcanizing shop
   Tobacco (including curing) or tobacco products
   Those uses which are more similar in type and intensity to the above list of uses than to uses listed elsewhere in these regulations.
2. Conditional Uses:
   
   Certain uses may be permitted in this district upon the granting of a Conditional Use Permit by the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Refer to Chapter 4 Part 2 for a listing of uses and requirements that apply to specific uses.
3. Property Development Regulations
   
   Refer to the applicable Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building height and other restrictions.
4. Maximum Density and FAR
   1. Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 3.0
   2. Maximum Density: None

2.5.3 M-3 Industrial District

The following provisions shall apply in the M-3 Industrial District unless other­wise provided in these regulations.

1. Permitted Uses:
   
   Accessory uses or buildings: those uses allowed shall be subordinate, customary and incidental to the permitted primary uses, including retail sale, rental or repair of items manufactured or assembled on site. Any accessory structure must meet site and other requirements of this zone.
   All uses permitted in the M-2 Industrial District
   Adult entertainment, subject to the requirements of Chapter 4, Part 4
   Forge plants, drop hammer or pneumatic
   Foundries, ferrous or non-ferrous, brass, bronze
   Race tracks for motor-powered vehicles
   Railroad yard, roundhouse, repair and overhaul shops, railroad equip­ment including locomotive and railroad car building and repair
   Storage of coal and gas, yards and pockets
   Uses, manufacture, processing, treatment, or storage of the following:
   Aromatic flavoring materials (essential oils)
   Bag cleaning
   Boiler manufacture (other than welded)
   Cider and vinegar
   Concrete, central mixing, and proportioning plant
   Cotton ginning, cotton wadding, or linters
   Film, photographic
   Flour, feed, grain except grain elevators
   Glass and glass products (large), including structural or plate glass, or similar products
   Graphite or graphite products
   Hair, felt, feathers, shoddy, bulk processing, washing, curing and dyeing
   Ink manufacture from primary raw materials (including colors and pig­ments)
   Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, or related industrial or household chemical compounds
   Jute, hemp, sisal, or oakum products
   Lead oxide
   Linoleum and other hard-surfaced floor covering (except wood), oil cloth, oil-treated products, or artificial leather
   Machinery, heavy, including electrical, construction, mining, or agricultural, also repairs
   Metal alloys or foil, miscellaneous, including solder, pewter, brasses, bronzes, tin, lead, gold foils, or similar products
   Metal casting or foundry products, heavy, including solder, pewter, brasses, bronzes, tin, lead, gold foils, or similar pro­ducts
   Metal or metal products; treatment or processing including enameling, japanning, lacquering, galvanizing, and (hot dip) plating
   Molasses
   Monument and architectural stone, monument works
   Motor testing (internal combustion motors)
   Oils, shortenings, and fats (edible)
   Paint, lacquer, shellac, and varnish, including calcimine, casein, colors and pigments, thinners and removers
   Paper and paper board (from paper-making machines)
   Pickles, vegetable relish, sauces
   Pottery and porcelain products (coal-fired, including bathroom or kitchen equipment, or similar products)
   Refrigerating plants
   Rice cleaning and polishing
   Roofing materials, building paper, and felt (including asphalt and composition )
   Rubber (natural or synthetic), including tires, tubes, or similar products, gutta percha, chidle, and balata processing
   Sauerkraut
   Self-tanning materials and allied products
   Shell grinding
   Soaps and soap products or detergents, including fat rendering, oils, vegetable and animal (non-edible)
   Sports Arenas
   Stone processing or stone products, including abrasives such as wheels, stones, paper and cloth, asbestos products, stone screening, stone cutting, stone-works, sand or lime products, or similar processes or products
   Sugar refining
   Synthetic fibers
   Textile bleaching, bleachery, bleaching products, including bluing vitreous enameled products
   Wall board, plaster board, insulation, and composition flooring
   Wood or lumber processing, including sawmills, planing mills, cooper­age stock mills, excelsior or packing materials, plywood veneer, wood-preserving treatment, or similar products or processes
   Wool pulling or scouring
   Those uses which are more similar in type and intensity to the above list of uses than to uses listed elsewhere in these regulations.
2. Conditional Uses:
   
   Certain uses may be permitted in this district upon the granting of a Conditional Use Permit by the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Refer to Chapter 4 Part 2 for a listing of uses and requirements that apply to specific uses.
3. Property Development Regulations
   
   Refer to the applicable Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building height and other restrictions.
4. Maximum Density and FAR
   1. Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 4.0
   2. Maximum Density: None