Intent: The Heavy Manufacturing District (M-2) is established for sites that are far enough removed from dense residential neighborhoods and high-value commercial neighborhoods so as to accommodate high-intensity or heavy manufacturing uses without detriment to adjacent properties nor land values in the vicinity.
1. Permitted uses:
a. Uses permitted by right:
(1) Brick, tile & pottery yard.
(2) Building/cleaning/maintenance service.
(3) Concrete Production.
(4) Contractor storage yards.
(5) Exterminators.
(6) Greenhouse, Commercial.
(7) Ice manufacturing.
(8) Landscaping and lawn services.
(9) Linen/Uniform service.
(10) Monument works/sales.
(11) Nurseries, Agriculture (Commercial).
b. Uses permitted with conditions (See Article F);
(1) Amusement facilities, outdoor.
(2) Commercial outdoor kennel.
(3) Essential Services 1 and 2.
(4) Parks.
(5) Utility scale solar energy systems.
(6) Temporary sales of seasonal agricultural products and customary accessory products (example: farmers' markets, Christmas tree/pumpkin sales).
(7) Truck terminals.
(8) Parking lot as a principal use.
c. Uses permitted with a special use permit:
(1) Agricultural industry.
(2) Airports.
(3) Auto Salvage
(4) Deviations from the architectural standards set forth in 9-3-77. Any deviations must have a proven need, that the building would not be able to serve its purpose adhering to the architectural standards.
(5) Essential Services Class 3.
(6) Mini-warehouse.
(7) Petroleum storage facilities.
(8) Planned Unit Development - Business.
(9) Sawmills.
(10) Wireless telecommunications facilities.
(11) Reserved.
d. Permitted building and lot types:
(1) Industrial.
e. Permitted accessory structures and uses:
(1) Outdoor storage.
(2) Accessory uses permitted in all districts.
f. General requirements:
(1) Along existing streets, new buildings shall respect the general spacing of structures, building mass and scale, and street frontage relationships of existing buildings.
(2) New buildings, which exceed the scale and volume of existing buildings, may demonstrate compatibility by varying the massing of buildings to reduce perceived scale and volume. Building massing illustrates the application of design techniques to reduce the visual perception of size and integrate larger buildings with pre-existing smaller buildings.
(3) On new streets, allowable building and lot types will establish the development pattern.
(4) Where screening is required by Article F for activities involving any sale, use, repair, storage, or cleaning operation, the specified standard of Article K shall apply.
(5) The arrangement of multiple buildings on a single lot shall establish facades generally parallel to the frontage property lines along existing streets and proposed interior streets.
(6) Every building lot shall have frontage upon a public street or square.
g. Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided for all uses as required by Article H of this chapter.
h. Sign requirements. See Article I of this chapter.
i. Dimensional requirements. See Article E (Lot and Building Types) and M (Watershed) of this chapter.