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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Property Development Regulations:
Refer to the applicable
Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building heights
and other restrictions.
- Maximum Density and FAR
- Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 2.0
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Property Development Regulations
Refer to the applicable
Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building height
and other restrictions.
- Maximum Density and FAR
- Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 3.0
- 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.
- 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)
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.
- 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.
- Property Development Regulations
Refer to the applicable
Form District regulations in Chapter 5 for lot size, setback, building height
and other restrictions.
- Maximum Density and FAR
- Maximum Floor Area Ratio: 4.0
- Maximum Density: None