1278.01 PURPOSE.

(a) To provide convenient and sufficient zoning districts for industrial activities and for the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services in order to serve and promote the economic development of the community.

(b) To provide areas for industrial and wholesale activities which desire both convenience of location and a reasonable amount of usable space sufficient to meet the needs of parking, loading and unloading, landscaping, etc.

(c) To protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to industrial uses by restricting the types of uses, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create congestion, noise or other objectionable influences, and by preventing the encroachment of incompatible land uses, such as residences and heavy industry.

(d) To provide rational clustering of industrial and wholesale uses which are of a non-nuisance type located near the freeway system, uses which generate relatively large volumes of traffic, so as to be accessible to the labor force and consumers and to lessen truck traffic and congestion in business and residential areas.

(e) To carry out the following specific purposes:

(1) To provide General Industrial Districts (M-1) for establishments that utilize processes in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable influences can be controlled, and which may generate outdoor activities and outdoor storage in association with a principal use.

(2) To provide Light Industrial Development Districts (M-2) which accommodate those industrial uses, storage and related activities conducted entirely within an enclosed building and with a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollution, fire and safety hazard or any potentially harmful or nuisance characteristic. An M-2 District is designed to accommodate wholesale, warehouse and industrial activities, the operational and physical characteristics of which do not detrimentally affect a surrounding zoning district.

(Ord. 58-01. Passed 5-29-01.)

1278.02 USE REGULATIONS.

(a) Uses Permitted by Right. A use listed in Schedule 1278.03 shall be permitted by right as a principal use in a district when denoted by the letter "P," provided that all requirements of other city ordinances and this Planning and Zoning Code have been met.

(b) Special Uses. A use listed in Schedule 1278.03 shall be permitted as a special use in a district when denoted by the letter "SU," provided the Planning Commission first makes the determination that the requirements of Chapter 1280 have been met according to the procedures set forth in Chapter 1230.

(c) Accessory Uses. A use listed in Schedule 1278.03 shall be permitted as an accessory use in a district when denoted by the letter "A". Such use shall be permitted as a subordinate building or use when it is clearly incidental to and located on the same lot as the principal building or use. Accessory uses are further regulated in subsequent sections of this Planning and Zoning Code.

(d) Compliance With Development Standards and Other Applicable Regulations. Although a use may be indicated as a permitted principal, special or accessory use in a particular industrial district, it shall not be approved on a parcel unless it can be located thereon in full compliance with all of the standards and other regulations of this Planning and Zoning Code applicable to the specific use and parcel in question.

(e) Uses Not Listed in Schedule. Any use not specifically listed as either a permitted principal or special use shall be a prohibited use in these zoning districts and shall only be permitted upon amendment of this Planning and Zoning Code and/or the Zoning Map as provided in Chapter 1236, or upon a finding by the Planning Commission that a use is substantially similar to a principally permitted or special use in the district according to the procedures set forth in Section 1230.11.

(f) Prohibited Uses. Notwithstanding the above, the following uses are specifically prohibited from locating in any M-1 or M-2 District.

(1) Automobile salvage and wrecking;

(2) Junk, scrap paper and rag storage, dumps, landfills, incinerators, recycling centers, bailing or composting facilities;

(3) Asphalt or cement processing/manufacturing;

(4) Stockyards and slaughterhouses.

(Ord. 58-01. Passed 5-29-01; Ord. 111-04. Passed 7-12-04; Ord. 38-17. Passed 6-12-17.)

1278.03 SCHEDULE OF PERMITTED USES.

	M-1 General Industrial	M-2 Light Industrial
(a) Offices
(1) Professional and administrative offices	P	P
(2) Research and testing laboratories	P	P
(3) Training schools and conference centers	P	P
(b) Storage and Distribution
(1) An aboveground storage container of flammable/ combustible liquids, LPG (liquified petroleum gas), CNG (compressed natural gas) or hazardous materials not exceeding 1,500 gallons*	P	P
(2) An aboveground storage container of flammable/combustible liquids, LPG (liquified petroleum gas), CNG (compressed natural gas) or hazardous materials exceeding 1,500 gallons*	SU	SU
(3) Mini/self storage facility and self- storage condominiums	SU	SU
(4) Storage and distribution	P	P
(5) Truck/transit transfer terminals	SU
(6) Warehouses	P	P
(7) Wholesale businesses	P	P
(c) Outdoor activities in association with a principal use
(1) General storage of goods, materials and supplies	P
(2) Overnight storage of fleet vehicles used in the operation of the principal use	A	A
(d) Manufacturing, Production and Processing
(1) Assembly plants	P	P
(2) Machine shops	P	P
(3) Manufacture of products from raw materials	SU
(4) Metal and non-metal production facilities utilizing products from previously and elsewhere prepared materials	P	P
(5) Printing, publishing, and allied industries	P	P
(e) Farms or Commercial Farms †	P	P
(f) Other
(1) Public safety facilities	P	P
(2) Public service/maintenance facilities	P
(3) Public utility substation	P	P
(4) Sexually oriented businesses	P	P
(5) Rifle ranges, skeet shooting ranges and pistol ranges	SU	SU
(6) Commercial recreation, indoor and outdoor	SU	SU
(7) Raising of animals for medical experimentation; raising of fur-bearing animals for commercial purposes; commercial dog kennels; commercial riding stables or riding academies; animal boarding	SU	SU
(8) Garden center	SU	SU
(g) Accessory Uses
(1) Employee lunchrooms	A	A
(2) Fences	A	A
(3) Maintenance, waste disposal and storage facilities	A	A
(4) Off-street parking and loading	A	A
(5) Recreational facilities used by tenants, employees and clients	A	A
(6) Signs	A	A
P = Principal Use Permitted by Right SU = Special Use A = Accessory Use Blank Cell = Use Not Permitted * = Must comply with ACO Section 1610.17. Refer to Ohio Fire Code for definitions. † = Farm or commercial farm of less than 10 contiguous acres but more than 2 acres is a Special Use.

(Ord. 58-01. Passed 5-29-01; Ord. 111-04. Passed 7-12-04; Ord. 169-08. Passed 1-12-09; Ord. 33-12. Passed 7-9-12; Ord. 11-13. Passed 2-25-13; Ord. 38-17. Passed 6-12-17; Ord. 29-20. Passed 4-27-20; Ord. 51-21. Passed 8-9-21; Ord. 55-23. Passed 5-22-23.)

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