(A) General. The M-2 General Manufacturing District encompasses areas where there is a satisfactory correlation of factors such as adequate transportation facilities, accessibility for employees, efficient land assembly, adequate topographical conditions, and where the adequate provision of public utilities and power facilities required by industry may be achieved. It is intended that this district will provide for a type of manufacturing and land use that is not permitted in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing District and that meets the requirements and conditions of this zoning code.
(B) Conditions of use. The permitted uses shall be subject to the following:
(1) Uses to occur without disturbances. Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing testing, repair or storage of goods, materials, or products shall take place without creating disturbing influences to the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.
(2) Uses to occur completely within enclosed building. All business, production, servicing, and processing shall take place within a completely enclosed building unless otherwise approved. Storage of equipment and supplies in this district may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by a wall or fence, including gates, at least eight feet high. Open off-street loading facilities and open, off-street parking facilities for the storage of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as my be required to protect adjacent uses or residential districts.
(3) Railroad siding frontage. No yards shall be required for those portions of lots which front on railroad sidings.
(4) Buffer areas. A six foot tall sight-proof fence or 20-foot tall planting screen, consisting of suitable shrubbery and trees, shall be provided wherever an industrial uses abuts any other use district. Such landscaped screen shall consist of shrubbery and trees at least five feet in height when planted and shall be maintained at not less than 20 feet in height when fully grown. Other forms of screen shall be as approved by the Zoning Administrator, and/or the Zoning Board of Appeals in its discretion.
(5) Yard areas. No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with the building.
(6) Front yard. On every zoning lot, a front yard of not less than 25 feet in depth shall be provided.
(7) Side yard. On every zoning lot, a side yard shall be provided along each side lot line. Each side yard shall be not less in width than 10% of the lot width or ten feet whichever is greater but need not exceed 20 feet in width.
(8) Rear yard. A rear yard sufficient for structural maintenance or safety equipment of at least 12 feet in depth shall be provided.
(9) Maximum floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall not exceed 3.0.
(10) Additional requirements. The applicant should refer to the following sections for additional requirements:
(C) Permitted uses.
(1) Any uses permitted in the M-1 District.
(2) Agricultural buildings and structure.
(3) Air conditioning contractors' offices, shops, and yards.
(4) Architects' office, shops, and yards.
(5) Arenas.
(6) Auditoriums.
(7) Automobiles testing rounds.
(8) Building contractor or construction offices, shops, and yards.
(9) Building material sales.
(10) Bus garages.
(11) Bus lots.
(12) Bus stations.
(13) Bus terminals.
(14) Car wash establishments.
(15) Cement contractors' offices, shops, and yards.
(16) Cement block manufacture.
(17) Crafting.
(18) Dumping or disposal areas, garbage, refuse or trash.
(19) Electrical contractors' offices, shops, and yards.
(20) Engineers' offices, shops, and yards.
(21) Express facilities.
(22) Freight terminals, air.
(23) Freight terminal, railroad and water.
(24) Fuel sales.
(25) Garages for storage, repair, and servicing of motor vehicles (unrestricted).
(26) Gas regulator stations.
(27) Hangars, aircraft.
(28) Heating contractors' offices, shops, and yards.
(29) Highway maintenance shops and yards.
(30) Ice sales.
(31) Labor organization lodges and offices.
(32) Commercial mobile structures, provided they meet the requirements of the county building code for placement in the county. These are to be only commercial mobile structures that have received prior approval of the Building and Zoning Committee and are on file in the office of the Building Department.
(33) Motor freight terminals.
(34) Masonry contractors' offices, shops, and yards.
(35) Oils, storage and wholesale distribution.
(36) Packing.
(37) Painting contractors' offices, shops and yards.
(38) Parking lots, open or enclosed and other than accessory (unrestricted).
(39) Parks.
(40) Penal institutions.
(41) Petroleum, storage and wholesale distribution.
(42) Plastic products.
(43) Planned developments, industrial limited to the district uses.
(44) Plumbing contractors' offices, shops and yards.
(45) Printing.
(46) Race tracks (all types).
(47) Radar installations.
(48) Radio stations and towers(transmitting and receiving).
(49) Radio studios.
(50) Railroad freight terminals.
(51) Railroad labor rest houses, hotels, and camps.
(52) Railroad passenger stations.
(53) Railroad switching and classification yards, repair shops, and round houses.
(54) Refrigeration contractors' offices, shops and yards.
(55) Roofing contractors' offices, shops and yards.
(56) Stadiums.
(57) Storage.
(58) Television stations and towers (transmitting and receiving).
(59) Temporary buildings for construction purposes.
(60) Theaters (automobile drive-in).
(61) Ventilating contractors' offices, shop and yards.
(62) Warehousing.
(63) Water freight terminals.
(64) Water reservoirs.
(65) Water service substations.
(66) Water works.
(67) Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products, but not including any of the uses first listed as permitted in the M-3 Heavy Manufacturing District, that can be operated without creating unreasonable noise, odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes, or vapor; and that is a use compatible with the uses and occupancy of adjoining properties.
(68) T.V. disks.
(69) Telecommunication facility not to exceed 200 feet in height. (Subject to the requirements of § 93.099)
(1) Airport, heliport, landing field.
(2) Dwellings, frame construction only, including mobile homes in compliance with § 93.101.
(3) Junk yards and automobile wrecking yards, provided they are contained within completely enclosed buildings or screened by a solid wall or uniformly painted solid fence at least 12 feet high or screening as approved.
(4) Manufacturing, processing or storage involving flammable or explosive materials, liquids or gases.
(5) Sanitary landfills and landfills.
(6) Slag piles, refining and ore waste.
(7) Stone and gravel quarries and crushing, grading, washing and loading equipment and structures.
(8) Surface and shaft mining of all kinds.
(9) Railroad freight cars, to be used for storage only as an accessory use to the primary use and located not in the front yard area.
(10) Utilities; electrical substations, gas regulator stations, other public utility distribution facilities.
(11) Impound storage yards, including towing services.
(12) Gasoline service station, with or without a convenience store. (See § 93.082).
(13) Recycling facilities for the collection, temporary storage, processing, cleaning, repair, grinding, or shredding of recyclable materials such as metals, auto parts, power equipment and auto batteries, and electronics. This does not include scrap yards, pick-and-pull operations, or junkyards. All dismantling of vehicles and storage of recyclable materials shall be within enclosed structures or an area enclosed by a sight-proof fence at least ten feet in height. All fluids (gases, oils, and the like) must be removed from the vehicles prior to storage on site, and batteries must be stored in compliance with the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. Haul away of dismantled vehicles stored on site shall occur on a monthly basis.
(1) Dwelling units for watchmen when located on the premises where they are employed in that capacity.
(2) Off-street parking and loading.
(3) Storage of merchandise or inventory usually carried in stock.
(4) Temporary buildings for construction purposes for a period not to exceed the duration of construction.
(5) Accessory structures. Accessory structures may include a kitchenette or bathroom, but shall not include a full kitchen, bedroom, or living space.
(F) Prohibited uses.
(1) The following shall not be permitted: Boarding and rooming houses, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, apartment hotels, mobile home parks, and any uses for living quarters not specifically provided for in this section.
(2) Vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and trucks that do not bear a current set of license plates; or are not in running condition; or are in such a condition that they are inoperable on public streets shall not be permitted unless such vehicles are incidental to and essential for a permitted primary use taking place on the property.
(3) Restaurants or bars that feature nude dancing in any form.
(4) Junk and debris, and outdoor storage of goods and materials where such storage is not permitted.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Ord. 2017-02, passed 6-1-2017; Ord. 2020-02, passed 1-16-2020; Ord. 2024-01, passed 3-5-2024)