The M3 Heavy Industrial District is established as a District in which the principal use of land is for heavy industrial establishments which may create some nuisance, and which are not properly associated nor compatible with residential, institutional, commercial and service establishments. This District is intended to provide for the kinds of industrial uses suited to the physical and geographical advantages of this region, therefore contributing to the economic base of the community and providing opportunities for industrial employment. Residential and, in general, commercial uses, are prohibited, as well as any use which would substantially interfere with the development and continuation of the industrial uses and structures in the District.
(a) Permitted Uses. In an M3 Heavy Industrial District, land and structures may be used, and structures may be erected, altered, enlarged and maintained, for the following uses only, including the retail sale of products when such sale is clearly incidental to the permitted industrial use.
(1) Any use permitted in the M1 and M2 Districts;
(2) Any non-residential uses permitted in a C1 or C2 District;
(3) Airplane factory or hanger;
(4) Alcohol manufacture or refining;
(5) Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture;
(6) Asphalt manufacture or refining;
(7) Building, plumbing and welding establishments;
(8) Blast furnace or coke oven;
(9) Boat building;
(10) Boiler works;
(11) Box factory;
(12) Brewery;
(13) Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacture, exotic materials manufacturing;
(14) Building-mover and wrecker’s establishment;
(15) Chemical manufacture;
(16) Cleaning and dyeing establishment, using non-flammable cleaning fluids;
(17) Community garage, major garage or community parking area;
(18) Concrete or cement products manufacture;
(19) Contractor’s establishment, including storage of equipment;
(20) Drop forge industry manufacturing forgings with power hammers;
(21) Feed and fuel sales establishment;
(22) Feed mixing plant;
(23) Grain elevator;
(24) Iron, steel or other metal manufacture or treatment, foundry or fabrication plant, and heavy weight casting;
(25) Killing or dressing and/or packaging of poultry;
(26) Landscape gardener’s sales area or business;
(27) Laundry;
(28) Lumber storage, millwork and sales;
(29) Machine shop;
(30) Machine-repairing, sales and display;
(31) Manufacture of appliances, electrical and mechanical; instruments, electronic, musical, precision or the like; machines, electric or mechanical, for home or office and the like; and phonographs, radios, telephones or other instruments or machines for receiving, reproducing or transmitting sound;
(32) Motor freight terminal;
(33) Ore reduction;
(34) Paint, oil (including linseed), shellac, turpentine, lacquer or varnish manufacture;
(35) Paper and pulp manufacture;
(36) Petroleum products manufacture;
(37) Planning mill;
(38) Potash work;
(39) Public utility corporation buildings, structures, facilities and installations;
(40) Quarry or stone mill;
(41) Recycling plant;
(42) Repair shop, including railroad repair shop, distribution and classification yards and supporting facilities;
(43) Rock, sand or gravel distribution;
(44) Rolling mills;
(45) School, industrial or trade;
(46) Selling of poultry, and fish, including cleaning and dressing and the temporary keeping of live poultry on the premises;
(47) Sodium compounds manufacture;
(48) Stone or monument works;
(49) Storage, industrial and otherwise;
(50) Tar distillation or tar products manufacture;
(51) Terminal warehousing or transfer depot;
(52) Tool manufacture;
(53) Wholesale business;
A. Garbage or refuse disposal plants.
(b) Other Provisions.
(1) Provisions regarding height, yard setbacks, lot area, and general rules are included in Appendix A - Schedule of Heights and Area Regulations.
(2) If there is no clearly defined location for a newly proposed application then the Building Code Official will provide an opinion, which shall be subject to review by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 5139. Passed 11-27-13; Ord. 5191. Passed 12-9-15.)