(A) General. The M-3 Heavy 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 this district will provide for a type of manufacturing and land use that is not permitted in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing and M-2 General Manufacturing Districts 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 may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by a wall or fence, including gates, at least eight feet high and open, off-street loading and parking facilities for the storage of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities may be required.
(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 feet tall planting screen, consisting of suitable shrubbery and trees, shall be provided wherever an industrial use abuts any other use district. This 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.
(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, 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 of 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. Production, processing, cleaning servicing, testing and repair, including the following uses and manufacturing of the following products:
(1) Any uses permitted in the “M-1" and “M-2" Districts.
(2) Asphalt and asphalt products.
(3) Chemicals including acetylene, aniline, dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black and bone black, cleaning and polishing, preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrating of cotton or other materials, nitrates (manufactured and natural) of an explosive nature, potash, plastic materials and synthetic resins, pyroxylin, rayon yarn, hydrochloric, picric and sulfuric acids and derivatives.
(4) Coal, coke, and tar products, including gas manufacturing.
(5) Electric central station, power and steam generating plants.
(6) Fertilizers.
(7) Film, photographic.
(8) Flour, feed and grain, milling and processing.
(9) Gelatin, glue and size: Animal.
(10) Linoleum and oil cloth.
(11) Magnesium foundries.
(12) Matches.
(13) Metal and metal ores (except precious and rare metals), reduction, refining, smelting and alloying.
(14) Modular building units for office commercial uses, provided they meet the requirements of the county building code for placement in the county. These are to be only modular building units that have received prior approval of the Building and Zoning Committee and are on file in the office of the Building Department.
(15) Paint, lacquer, shellac, varnishes, linseed oil and turpentine.
(16) Petroleum products, refining - such as gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, lubricating oil and liquefied petroleum gases.
(17) Railroad freight terminals, motor freight terminals, railroad switching and classification yards, repair shops and roundhouses.
(18) Ready-mix cement plants.
(19) Rubber (natural or synthetic).
(20) Soaps, including fat and oil rendering.
(21) Starch.
(22) Stock yards, slaughterhouses and abattoirs.
(23) Wood, coal and bones, distillation.
(24) Wood pulp and fiber, reduction and processing, including paper mill operation.
(25) Storage, including the following uses and materials or products: Goods used in or produced by manufacturing activities permitted in this district.
(26) Explosives.
(27) Grain.
(28) Manure, peat, and topsoil.
(29) Petroleum and petroleum products.
(30) T.V. disks.
(31) 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 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, and 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 exceed the duration of the 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 or courts, 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 condition that they are inoperable of 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)