The permitted, conditional, and special exception uses allowed in each of the industrial districts are listed in the chart in this section using the following key: P = permitted use; C = conditional use; SE = special exception use; and A= auxiliary use to a business complex use. A blank means that the use is not allowed in the district. Except as provided otherwise in this article, uses and structures customarily accessory to permitted, conditional, and special exception uses also are allowed, except that outside storage as an accessory use in W1 is limited to 15% of the allowed lot coverage.
Permitted, Conditional, and Special Exception Uses | W1 | W2 | W3 |
Permitted, Conditional, and Special Exception Uses | W1 | W2 | W3 |
Adult bookstores | C | ||
Adult day care centers | P | P | |
Adult movie theaters | C | ||
Airports and airfields | SE | SE | SE |
Alcoholic beverage uses as accessory to other uses | C | C | C |
Amusement parks | SE | SE | |
Artisans and craft work | P | P | P |
Automobile and truck detailing shops | P | P | P |
Automobile and truck dismantling and recycling facilities | SE | SE | |
Automobile and truck rental establishments | P | P | P |
Automobile and truck repair and painting facilities | P | P | |
Automobile and truck towing storage yards, temporary storage not to exceed 90 days | P | P | |
Automobile gasoline stations | C | C | C |
Automobile and truck parts, supply stores, and tire stores | P | P | P |
Automobile service facilities providing oil change, lubrication, and related services | P | P | P |
Bakery or donut shops | A | A | |
Bakeries, wholesale | P | P | P |
Banks | P | P | |
Barbershops | A | A | |
Boat manufacturing, repair, and service | P | P | |
Bookbinding | P | P | |
Bottling works | P | P | |
Bone distillation | P | ||
BRAC Mixed Use Development | C | ||
Brewery | P | P | |
Brewery, craft | P | P | P |
Building material storage, including sales and yards | P | P | |
Bus terminals | P | P | |
Business complexes | P | P | P |
Business complexes with auxiliary uses | C | C | |
Cabinetry and woodworking and sales without outside storage | P | ||
Carnivals, circuses, and fairs, temporary | C | C | |
Catering establishments | P | P | |
Cement manufacturing | SE | ||
Chemical and allied products, nonmanufacturing | P | ||
Child care centers | P | P | |
Clay and borrow pits or sand and gravel operations | SE | SE | |
Clubs, private, and service, nonprofit, and charitable organizations | P | P | P |
Coffee roasters | P | P | |
Coke or coke products manufacturing | SE | ||
Commercial recreational facilities, including miniature golf; driving ranges; tennis, racquet, and handball barns or courts; artificial ski slopes; indoor soccer; bowling alleys; BMX bike, skateboard or roller blade parks; and skating rinks | P | P | |
Commercial telecommunication facilities permanently located on the ground | C | C | C |
Commercial telecommunication facilities that are antennas attached to a structure if the antenna does not exceed 15 feet in height above the structure, does not project more than two feet beyond the facade, does not support lights or signs unless required for safety reasons, and accessory structures meet the requirements of § 18-10-117(7) of this Code | P | P | P |
Commercial telecommunication facilities for testing purposes or emergency services for a period not exceeding 30 days if the facility is a monopole not exceeding 100 feet in height and is located at least 300 feet from any dwelling | P | P | P |
Communications systems sales and service, manufacturing and wholesale | P | P | P |
Computer goods, sales and services | P | P | P |
Conference centers | P | ||
Construction or sales trailers, temporary, in an approved development actively under construction | P | P | P |
Contractor and construction shops and yards | P | P | |
Convenience stores, gift shops, and newsstands | A | A | |
Data storage center | P | P | P |
Delicatessens and snack bars | A | A | |
Die casting | P | P | |
Distillery | P | P | |
Distillery, limited | P | P | P |
Dog day care facilities | P | ||
Dog grooming parlors | P | P | |
Drive-in theaters | SE | SE | |
Dry cleaning and laundry establishments | P | ||
Dry cleaning and laundry establishments, including pick-up stations, package plants, and coin-operated facilities, limited to establishments with less than 4,000 square feet of floor area | A | A | |
Dyeing establishments | P | P | |
Equipment, sales, repair and storage, commercial | P | P | |
Entertainment complexes, including a multi-screen complex | A | ||
Fabrication and assembly uses | P | P | P |
Farming | P | P | P
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Fertilizer manufacturing | SE | ||
Food product manufacturing | P | P | |
Furniture, appliance, and carpet stores and showrooms | P | P | |
Generating plants | P | ||
Grocery stores with a maximum of 25,000 square feet | A | A | |
Hair, cosmetic facial hair, and nail salons | A | A | |
Hardware stores | A | A | |
Health clubs, spas, and gymnasiums | P | P | P |
Heliports | SE | SE | SE |
Home occupations | C | C | C |
Hotels and motels | P | A | |
Industrial piers, wharves, and mooring pilings if located in the Chesapeake Bay, Patapsco River, Parish Creek, or Tenthouse Creek | P | P | |
Kennels, commercial | C | P | |
Laboratories, research and development or testing | P | P | P |
Latex fabrication, not including paint | P | P | |
Licensed dispensary of cannabis, as defined in State law and regulation | C | C | C |
Licensed grower of cannabis, as defined in State law and regulation, indoor cultivation only | C | C | C |
Licensed processor of cannabis, as defined in State law and regulation | C | C | C |
Lumber yards | P | P | |
Mailing and shipping services | P | ||
Manufacturing and processing, general, including the assembling of component parts, the creation of products, and the blending of materials | P | P | P |
Manufacturing and processing, heavy, including adhesives; aircraft parts; asphalt; atmospheric gas; bricks; concrete products; paper; metal foundries and forges; insulating materials; metal machinery that includes autos, rail, farm, construction, mining, and industrial machinery; metal refining, stamping, extrusion; paint and allied products; paper and paper products from pulp; plastic; porcelain and porcelain enamel; processing of grain, clay, sand, gravel, stone, synthetic fibers, filaments, and tiles | P | ||
Marine freight terminals, excluding bulk freight, if located in the Chesapeake Bay or Patapsco River | P | P | |
Maritime suppliers and servicing, including piers and wharves for pile driving and marine construction operations | P | P | |
Metal products and machinery, manufacturing, fabrication, finishing, tool and die, machine shops, galvanizing, electroplating, die casting, welding | P | P | |
Milk and dairy products, processing and distribution | P | P | |
Monument works and statuary production | P | P | |
Motorcycle manufacturing and fabrication | P | P | |
Moving and storage establishments | P | P | |
Natural wood waste recycling facilities | SE | SE | |
Offices, professional and general | P | P | P |
Office supply stores and business service establishments | P | ||
Ore storage | SE | ||
Outside storage as a principal use | P | P | |
Package goods stores | A | A | |
Parking garages or lots | P | P | P |
Parks, private | P | ||
Personal fitness studios | P | P | P |
Petroleum products, storage for retail sale | SE | SE | |
Petroleum products, storage on lot in excess of 1,000,000 gallons for use by W3 district uses or public utilities | SE | ||
Pets, livestock, or fowl as permitted by § 18-4-104 | P | P | P |
Pharmacies | A | A | |
Photoengraving | P | P | |
Photography studios | P | P | |
Piers, commercial | P | P | P |
Printing and publishing establishments | P | P | P |
Processing sites for clay, sand, gravel, and similar materials | C | ||
Public utility essential services | P | P | P |
Public utility uses | SE | P | P |
Race tracks for horses | C | SE | |
Race tracks for other than horses | SE | ||
Radio and television studios and broadcasting establishments | P | P | |
Radio, television, or industrial testing towers | SE | SE | |
Recyclables recovery facilities | SE | SE | |
Religious facilities | P | P | P |
Rendering plants | SE | ||
Rental establishments | P | P | P |
Restaurants | P | P | P |
Rubble processing facilities | SE | ||
School bus facilities | P | P | |
Schools, public charter, and schools, private: academic, arts, business, technical, or trade | P | P | P |
Self-service storage facilities | C | C | C |
Showrooms and sales of specialty building products | P | P | P |
Sign shops, including painting and fabrication | P | P | P |
Small cell system | C | C | C |
Small wind energy systems or meteorological towers on a lot of at least three acres | C | C | C |
One small wind energy system or meteorological tower on a lot less than three acres | SE | SE | SE |
Solar energy generating facility – accessory | P | P | P |
Solar energy generating facility – community | C | C | C |
Solar energy generating facility – utility scale | C | C | C |
Solid waste transfer stations | SE | ||
Stadiums, commercial | SE | SE | SE |
Staging areas for County capital projects | P | P | P |
State-licensed medical clinics | C | C | C |
Storage of atmospheric gas, coal, grain | P | ||
Tattoo parlors and body piercing salons | P | ||
Taverns | P | P | P |
Taxicab stands and services | P | P | |
Taxidermists | P | P | P |
Telephone exchanges | P | P | P |
Trade expositions | P | P | P |
Travel agencies | A | ||
Truck stops | P | P | |
Veterinary clinics if overnight stays are limited to those necessary for medical treatment without outside runs or pens | P | C | |
Video lottery facilities | C | ||
Video sales and rental establishments with less than 1,500 square feet of floor area | A | A | |
Volunteer fire stations | P | P | P |
Water-dependent facilities | P | P | P |
Wholesale trade, warehousing, and storage establishments | P | P | P |
Wineries | P | P | |
Workforce housing | C | ||
(Bill No. 4-05; Bill No. 54-05; Bill No. 78-05; Bill No. 64-07; Bill No. 69-07; Bill No. 82-09; Bill No. 39-10; Bill No. 60-10; Bill No. 73-12; Bill No. 12-13; Bill No. 68-13; Bill No. 21-14; Bill No. 58-14; Bill No. 8-15; Bill No. 14-15; Bill No. 21-15; Bill No. 96-15; Bill No. 26-17; Bill No. 67-17; Bill No. 75-17; Bill No. 101-17; Bill No. 3-18; Bill No. 25-18; Bill No. 89-18; Bill No. 54-19; Bill No. 76-19; Bill No. 90-20; Bill No. 104-20; Bill No. 47-21; Bill No. 104-21; Bill No. 56-23; Bill No. 77-23; Bill No. 29-24; Bill No. 63-24)