Sec. 94-152. M-2: General manufacturing district.
(a)   Intent and purpose. It is the primary purpose of this district to provide opportunities for a variety of industrial activities, including assembly, packaging, fabrication, processing, compounding, and manufacturing processes that rely on raw materials or previously prepared materials.
(b)   Uses permitted by right.
   (1)   Industrial parks.
   (2)   Research, development, and prototype manufacturing facilities and offices.
   (3)   Warehousing, grain elevators, grain storage, refrigerated storage, bulk storage of petroleum products, and general storage.
   (4)   Local and regional transit and passenger transportation facilities, and trucking terminals, maintenance and service facilities.
   (5)   Laundry services.
   (6)   The manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, and food products.
   (7)   Assembly of merchandise such as electrical appliances, and electronic or precision instruments.
   (8)   Printing, lithographic, blueprinting, copying, and similar uses.
   (9)   Light manufacturing activity which by the nature of the materials, equipment, and processes utilized are to a considerable extent clean, quiet, and free from any objectionable or dangerous nuisance or hazard including any of the following goods or materials:
      a.   Furniture and fixtures.
      b.   Paper and paperboard products.
      c.   Jewelry, silverware and plated ware.
      d.   Musical instruments and parts.
      e.   Toys and sporting goods.
      f.   Signs, advertising displays and canvas products.
      g.   Office computing and accounting equipment.
      h.   Jobbing and repair machine shops.
   (10)   Body and paint shops for automobiles and other vehicles.
   (11)   Heavy construction and general building companies.
   (12)   Industrial manufacturing, processing, or assembling of the following:
      a.   Prefabricated buildings and structural members.
      b.   Fabricated metal products including heavy machinery and industrial equipment.
      c.   Stone, clay, and glass products.
      d.   Aluminum, bronze, copper, copper-alloy and other non-ferrous castings.
      e.   Machinery such as engines, turbines, farm implements, and industrial machinery and equipment.
      f.   Transportation equipment, such as motor vehicles and non-motorized vehicles and parts.
      g.   Agricultural products.
      h.   Biological products, drugs, medicinal, chemical and pharmaceutical products.
      i.   Monuments, cut stone and stone products.
(c)   Permitted accessory uses. Accessory uses and structures as defined in this chapter.
(d)   Uses authorized by special use permit.
   (1)   Above ground storage of flammable liquids or combustible materials.
   (2)   Cement and asphalt plants.
   (3)   Communication towers and antennas (refer to section 94-173(d)).
   (4)   Junk and salvage yards (refer to section 94-192(3)).
   (5)   Livestock auction yard and livestock transport facilities.
   (6)   Refineries and power generating plants.
   (7)   Railroad terminals.
   (8)   Meat or poultry processing plant.
   (9)   Dry or liquid bulk blending plant.
   (10)   Nitrogen fertilizer and anhydrous ammonia.
   (11)   Repair and storage of damaged mobile homes.
   (12)   Racetrack or racing theatre (refer to section 94-192(9)).
   (13)   Casino (refer to section 94-192(9)).
   (14)   Removal and disposal of soil, sand, gravel, and other materials (refer to section 94-192(4)).
   (15)   Drilling, exploring and production operations for oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon materials.
(e)   Development standards. Any use of land or structures in this district shall comply with the general development standards of section 94-121(c) of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 152, 5-1-2006)