(A) Permitted uses.
(1) Any of the permitted uses in the B-2 zone;
(2) Artificial limb manufacture;
(3) Automobile painting, upholstering, repairing, reconditioning and body and fender work when done within the confined structure;
(4) Bakeries, wholesale;
(5) Beverage bottling and distributing stations;
(6) Box manufacture;
(7) Broom manufacture;
(8) Building equipment, building materials, lumber, coal, sand and gravel yards, and yards for contracting equipment, maintenance or operating equipment of public agencies, or public utilities or materials or equipment of similar nature;
(9) Bus line shops and garages;
(10) Canvas goods fabrication;
(11) Carpet and rug cleaners;
(12) Carting and express hauling;
(13) Cement block manufacture, when done wholly within a building;
(14) Cleaning and dying establishments;
(15) Clothing and dress manufacture;
(16) Creameries;
(17) Drapery and bedding manufacture;
(18) Electrical appliance and electronic instrument assembly;
(19) Furniture manufacture and upholstering;
(20) Greenhouses, wholesale growers;
(21) Heating and sheet metal fabrications;
(22) Ice cream and ice manufacture;
(23) Laundries, more than 1,000 pounds daily capacity;
(24) Machine shops and metal products manufacture, when not equipped with heavy punch presses, drop forges, screw machines, riveting machines or any other equipment which may create vibrations or noise disturbing to adjacent property occupants;
(25) Offices, in conjunction with manufacturing, warehousing or wholesaling uses;
(26) Plastic product manufacture, but not including the processing of the raw materials;
(27) Printing and publication establishments;
(28) Public utility electric substations and distribution centers gas regulation centers;
(29) Public utility and governmental service establishments, other including offices, storing, testing, repairing and servicing;
(30) Storage of household goods and self- storage facilities;
(31) Railroad rights-of-way and passenger stations;
(32) Storage and sale of automobiles, trailers, farm implements and equipment, and other similar equipment on an open lot;
(33) Water filtration plants, pumping stations, reservoirs, wells and sewage treatment plants and lift stations; public or community;
(34) Storage and warehouses;
(35) Schools, commercial or trade, training centers, engineering or sales;
(36) Stone, marble and granite grinding and cutting;
(37) Telephone exchange;
(38) Tool and die shops;
(39) Upholstering;
(40) Window shade manufacture;
(41) Wholesale establishments;
(42) The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, furs, glass, hair, horn, tanned leather, paper, plastic, precious or semi-precious metals or stone, shell, textiles, wood (excluding planing mills) and yarns;
(43) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or any other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas; and
(44) Any other manufacturing establishment that can be operated without creating objectionable noise, odor, dust, smoke, gas fumes or vapor, and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties. Local governing officials shall have final approval of any type of manufacturing not addressed under permitted uses and/or conditional permitted uses.
(B) Conditional permitted uses.
(1) Milling, planing, jointing or manufacturing of millwork;
(2) Retail sales, in conjunction with manufacturing, warehousing or wholesaling uses;
(3) Radio and television towers, telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment and other service buildings;
(4) Research laboratories;
(5) Food processing and dehydrating for human consumption, but not including the processing of sauerkraut, fish products, gelatin, sausage casings from animal products, starch, dextrin, glucose, sugar, vinegar, yeast and the rendering of refining of fats and oils;
(6) Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oils in tanks, but only after the location and protective measures have been approved by local governing officials;
(7) Truck or bus storage yard, including motor truck freight terminals; and
(8) The manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
(D) Lot area and lot width. The maximum ground area occupied by all buildings shall be not more than 60% of the area of the lot or tract on which a building permit has been issued. Lot width shall be a minimum of 150 feet.
(E) Yards.
(1) Front yard. There shall be front yard having a depth of not less than 50 feet wherein there shall be no structure of any kind, open storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of vehicles.
(2) Side yard. There shall be a minimum side yard of not less than 15 feet on both sides of the building or buildings, except where a side yard adjoins a street, the minimum width shall be not less than 50 feet. Where the property is adjacent to an R district, there shall be a side yard of not less than 25 feet on the side nearest to the residential lots. The parking of private automobiles may be permitted within the side yard areas, but not closer than 15 feet to any lot zoned for residential use.
(3) Rear yard. A rear yard of 30 feet is required except where a lot abuts upon an R district, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than 60 feet, and no storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of automobiles shall take place within the 15 feet closest to any residential lot or lots.
(Ord. passed 1-12-1976, § X-C; Ord. VG07-431, passed 6-11-2007)