(A) Industrial Service
Industrial Service firms are engaged in the repair or servicing of agricultural, industrial, business, or consumer machinery, equipment, products, or by-products. Firms that service consumer goods do so by mainly providing centralized services for separate retail outlets. Contractors and building maintenance services and similar uses perform services off-site. Few customers, especially the general public, come to the site. Accessory activities may include retail sales, offices, parking and storage. Hotels, restaurants, and other services that are part of a truck stop are considered accessory to the truck stop. Specific use types include:
(1) General Industrial Service
Manufacturing of finished parts or products, or storage and handling of such products and materials. Examples include, without limitation: welding shops; machine shops; tool repair; electric motor repair; repair of scientific or professional instruments; sales, repair, storage, salvage or wrecking of heavy machinery, metal, and building materials; building, heating, plumbing or electrical contractors with on-site storage; publishing and lithography; exterminators; janitorial and building maintenance services with on-site storage; fuel oil distributors; sawmills; solid fuel yards; laundry, dry-cleaning and carpet cleaning plants; and photo-finishing laboratories.
(2) Research Laboratory
A facility that is designed or equipped for basic or applied research or experimental study, testing, or analysis in the natural sciences or engineering, including any educational activities associated with and accessory to such research.
(B) Manufacturing and Production
This use category includes firms involved in the manufacturing, processing, fabrication, packaging, or assembly of goods. Natural, man-made, raw, secondary, or partially completed materials may be used. Products may be finished or semi-finished and are generally made for the wholesale market, for transfer to other plants, or to order for firms or consumers. Custom industry is included (i.e., establishments primarily engaged in the on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing involving the use of hand tools and small-scale equipment). Goods are generally not displayed or sold on site, but if so, they are a subordinate part of sales. Relatively few customers come to the manufacturing site. Accessory activities may include retail sales, offices, cafeterias, parking, employee recreational facilities, warehouses, storage yards, repair facilities, truck fleets and caretaker's quarters. Specific use types include:
(1) Manufacturing, Heavy
The assembly, fabrication, or processing of goods and materials using processes that ordinarily have greater than average impacts on the environment, or that ordinarily have significant impacts on the use and enjoyment of other properties in terms of noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or health or safety hazards, or that otherwise do not constitute "light manufacturing," or any use where the area occupied by outdoor storage of goods and materials used in the assembly, fabrication, or processing exceeds twenty-five (25) percent of the
floor area
of all buildings on the lot. "Heavy manufacturing" shall include, but not be limited to, the following: enameling, lacquering, or the plating or galvanizing of metals; industrial chemical manufacture; mixing plants for concrete or paving materials, and manufacture of concrete products; pressure treating of wood; stonecutting. This shall not include resource extraction or recycling and salvage operations.
(2) Manufacturing, Light
The assembly, fabrication, or processing of goods and materials using processes that ordinarily do not create noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or health or safety hazards outside of the building or lot where such assembly, fabrication, or processing takes place, where such processes are housed entirely within a building, or where the area occupied by outdoor storage of goods and materials used in the assembly, fabrication, or processing does not exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the
floor area
of all buildings on the lot. This shall not include uses that constitute "heavy manufacturing," resource extraction, or recycling and salvage operations.
(3) Prototype Process and Production Plants
A building or operation in which processes planned for use in production elsewhere can be tested, or in which goods are produced only in a quantity necessary for full investigation of the merits of a product, but not including the production of any goods on the premises primarily or customarily for sale or for use in production operations off the premises.
(4) Resource Extraction
Extraction of minerals, including solids like coal and other ores, including but not limited to quarrying, open-pit mining, drilling, tunneling, strip mining and any other such activities as defined in G.S. 74-49(7).
(5) Brewery
A facility for the production of beer that may include a restaurant, tasting room, or retail space on the site.
(6) Distillery
A facility for the distillation of spirituous liquor (as defined in G.S. ch. 18B) that may include a restaurant, tasting room, or retail space on the site.
(7) Winery
A facility for the production of wine that may include a restaurant, tasting room, or retail space on the site.
(C) Telecommunications Facilities
Telecommunications facilities enable Federal Communications Commission licensed or authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network. A telecommunications facility consists of a base station and accessory equipment, and the wireless support structure, if any, associated with the facility. Specific use types include:
(1) Concealed (Stealth) Telecommunications Facility
Any antenna or wireless support structure that is camouflaged or concealed to look like something else (e.g., man-made trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles, water towers and similar alternative design) so that the purpose of the antenna or wireless support structure is not readily apparent to a casual observer.
(2) Non-Stealth Telecommunications Facility on Existing Building or Structure
Any antennae or wireless support structure not defined in LDO Section 12.3.5(C)(1) that is mounted or attached to a structure.
(3) Freestanding Non-Stealth Wireless Support Structure
Any non-stealth wireless support structure that is not mounted or attached to a building or structure.
(4) Collocation of Small Wireless Facility
Any small wireless facility placed or installed on an existing structure capable of structurally supporting the attachment of wireless facilities in compliance with the North Carolina State Building Code or other applicable codes as defined in G.S. Chapter 160A, Article 3C.
(5) Utility Poles Associated with Small Wireless Facility
Any utility pole upon which a small wireless facility is collocated.
(D) Warehouse and Freight Movement
Firms involved in the storage or movement of goods for themselves or other firms. Goods are generally delivered to other firms or the final consumer, except for some will-call pickups. There is little on-site sales activity with the customer present. Accessory uses may include offices, truck fleet parking, and maintenance areas. Specific use types include:
(1) Mini-Storage
A building or group of buildings divided into separate spaces or compartments leased to individuals, organizations, or businesses on an individual basis for self-service storage of personal property. Also known as self-storage.
(2) Outdoor Storage
The keeping, in an unroofed area of any goods, junk, material, merchandise, or vehicles in the same place for more than twenty-four (24) hours. This shall not include the display of vehicles for sale in a new or used car sales lot.
(3) Railroad Stations and Yards
Heavy rail facilities for freight pick-up or distribution; may include intermodal distribution facilities for truck or shipping transport.
(4) Warehousing and Distribution Establishment
A use engaged in (1) the storage of goods, materials, vehicles, trailers, or boats, or (2) the distribution of goods and materials to another location for the purposes of resale or use at the place distributed to. At least fifty (50) percent of the gross
floor area
of the use shall be used for warehouse and distribution purposes. This shall include offices located on the same property in conjunction with such uses. This shall not include heavy manufacturing, resource extraction, scrap operations, or salvage operations.
(5) Wholesale Establishment
An establishment primarily engaged in the sale or distribution of goods and materials in large quantity to retailers or other businesses for resale to individual or business customers. This shall not include heavy manufacturing, resource extraction, scrap operations, or salvage operations.
(E) Waste-Related Uses
This category includes uses that receive solid or liquid wastes from others for disposal on the site or for transfer to another location, uses that collect sanitary wastes, or uses that manufacture or produce goods or energy from the composting of organic material or processing of scrap or waste material. Waste-Related uses also include uses that receive hazardous wastes from others. Accessory uses may include recycling of materials, offices, and repackaging and shipment of by-products. Specific use types include:
(1) Recycling and Salvage Operation
A facility, other than a recycling drop-off station, for the collection, handling, sorting, storage, processing, compaction, purchase, and/or resale of scrap or discarded material like paper, metal, rubber, plastic, glass, or cloth. The term includes facilities for separating trash and debris from recoverable materials such as paper products, glass, and metal cans which can be returned to a condition in which they may again be used for production.
(2) Recycling Drop-Off Station
A center or collection point with containers or facilities designed and intended for the depositing of clean, separated, and recyclable paper, cardboard, metal, glass, or plastic materials and the collection of such materials for processing at another location, but itself having no mechanical facilities for the processing of such materials.
(3) Junkyard
Any establishment or land used, in whole or in part, for commercial or industrial storage, dismantling, and/or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, motor vehicles, machinery, tires, or other junk outside of an enclosed building. This shall not include a landfill, solid waste transfer facility, other public utility facility, or a recycling and salvage operation.
(4) Landfill
A facility for the disposal of solid waste in a sanitary manner in accordance with G.S. Chapter 130A Article 9. For the purpose of this Ordinance, this term does not include composting facilities.
(Ord. No. 04-001, 1-8-04; Ord. No. 04-007, 7-15-04; Ord. No. 05-001, 1-13-05; Ord. No. 2007-04, 3-22-07; Ord. No. 2008-LDO-01, 9-25-08; Ord. No. 2010-LDO-01, 1-14-10; Ord. No. 2010-LDO-02, 1-28-10; Ord. No. 2010-LDO-03, 2-25-10; Ord. No. 2010-LDO-05, 12-16-10; Ord. No. 2011-LDO-01, 1-11-11; Ord. No. 2011-LDO-05, 12-15-11; Ord. No. 12-LDO-01, 2-23-12; Ord. No. 2012-LDO-04, 5-24-12; Ord. No. 2012-LDO-08, 10-11-12; Ord. No. 2013-LDO-02, passed 6-13-13; Ord. No. 2013-LDO-04, 9-26-13; Ord. No. 2014-LDO-01, 1-9-14; Ord. No. 2015-LDO-001, 4-21-15; Ord. No. 2016-LDO-01, 7-25-16; Ord. No. 2017-ACT-01, 10-26-17; Ord. No. 2017-ACT-02, 12-14-17; Ord. No. 2018-LDO-01, 5-3-18; Ord. No. 2021-LDO-01, 6-24-21; Ord. No. 2022-LDO-02, 4-28-22)