§ 153.117 GMC GENERAL MANUFACTURING AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

   (A)   Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted by right.

      (1)   Manufacturing, refining, processing or assembly of goods or products;

      (2)   Agriculture equipment, sales and service;

      (3)   Assembly halls, coliseums and ballrooms;

      (4)   Auction houses, indoors, excluding livestock;

      (5)   Automobile parking lots;

      (6)   Automobile painting, upholstering, repairs, reconditioning and body work;

      (7)   Automobile sales;

      (8)   Automobile service stations;

      (9)   Automobile wash establishments;

      (10)   Bail bond service;

      (11)   Bookbinding shops;

      (12)   Building materials and lumber sales;

      (13)   Cabinet, woodworking and upholstery shops;

      (14)   Commercial schools and schools providing training in any of the arts, sciences, trades and professions;

      (15)   Contractors storage and equipment yards;

      (16)   Convenience stores;

      (17)   Domestic violence shelter;

      (18)   Dry cleaning and laundry plants;

      (19)   Electric, plumbing, heating ventilating and air conditioning and construction supply houses;

      (20)   Essential services, Class I and II;

      (21)   Farm equipment sales and service;

      (22)   Financial institution;

      (23)   Florist, wholesale;

      (24)   Food catering service and food vending supply;

      (25)   Freezer lockers;

      (26)   Government facilities not otherwise listed (excluding jails, prisons and similar penal institutions);

      (27)   Greenhouses and horticultural nurseries;

      (28)   Ice plants;

      (29)   Laboratories: dental, medical, optical and research;

      (30)   Machinery repair;

      (31)   Manufactured home and recreational vehicle sales and service;

      (32)   Moving and storage facilities (including mini-warehouses);

      (33)   Office-business, medical, optical and professional;

      (34)   Passenger bus terminal;

      (35)   Photo processing laboratories;

      (36)   Postal and parcel service processing facility;

      (37)   Post office;

      (38)   Product distribution plants;

      (39)   Public safety stations;

      (40)   Railroad terminals and yards;

      (41)   Recycling terminals and yards;

      (42)   Recycling sorting facility;

      (43)   Restaurants, including fast-food restaurants;

      (44)   Retail: all uses permitted in § 153.113(A);

      (45)   Roofing manufacturing, repair and installation facilities;

      (46)   Sign painting and manufacturing shops;

      (47)   Slaughterhouse/abattoir;

      (48)   Tin and sheet metal shops;

      (49)   Tire recapping shops;

      (50)   Towers and antennas 50 feet or less in height;

      (51)   Truck sales and repair;

      (52)   Trucking terminals;

      (53)   Union halls, fraternal and civic organization meeting facility;

      (54)   Vehicular and equipment outdoor storage (as a principal use) not for retail sales where:

         (a)   The items are owned and/or operated by the owner of the lot upon which they are located; and

         (b)   The items are in operating condition or intended to be operated.

      (55)   Warehouses, including mini-warehouses;

      (56)   Wholesaler, jobbers, bulk warehouses;

      (57)   Accessory outlet store, provided that parking for the store shall be computed separately from the principal use and reserved for those purposes.

   (B)   Uses subject to prescribed standards. The following uses are allowed upon the issuance of a zoning permit by the Zoning Administrator in accordance with §§ 153.255 through 153.259 of this chapter and subject to the associated below prescribed standards.

      (1)   Tavern provided the site is located a minimum of 100 feet from any residential use, vehicular access is not provided by a local residential road and the use is screened from any abutting property located in a residential district in accordance with § 153.046.

   (C)   Yard regulations.

      (1)   Minimum lot size: none.

      (2)   Minimum lot width: 100 feet (as measured at the required front setback).

      (3)   Minimum front setback: 50 feet (as measured from the edge of the street right-of-way line).

      (4)   Minimum side setback: 20 feet, except 50 feet shall be required on all lots that abut a Residential (R) District.

      (5)   Minimum rear setback: 30 feet, except that 50 feet shall be required on all lots which abut a Residential (R) District.

   (D)   Screening and landscaping.

      (1)   Screening shall be required as provided in § 153.046 of this chapter. Additional screening may be required so that the use is screened from view of adjoining residential zoning districts. In the event that the nature of the topography makes the screening from distant view from residential areas impossible, then other measures such as heavy on-site landscaping shall be installed to lessen any near or distant visual impacts.

      (2)   Landscaping shall be provided in accordance with § 153.047 of this chapter.

(Prior UDO, § 7.12) (Ord. ZTA-1-2009, passed 4-2-2009; Ord. ZTA-3-2010, passed 7-1-2010; Ord. ZTA-2-2014, passed 7-10-2014; Ord. ZTA-3-2014, passed 11-13-2014; Ord. ZTA-4-2016, passed 7-7-2016; Ord. ZTA-1-2020, passed 3-5-2020; Ord. passed - - ; Ord. O-1-2024, passed 1-4-2024; Ord. O-3-2024, passed 5-2-2024)

Editor’s note:

   Any retail use in excess of 85,000 square feet is subject to § 153.129.

   The term SIC shall refer to the Standard Industrial Classification system as set forth in the SIC Manual published by the United States of America, Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget; and unless a use is defined in this chapter, the SIC Manual shall be used to define, clarify or more specifically identify the uses and groups of uses listed under the GMC District.