Buildings and land shall be used, and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained, in whole or in part, in any M-2 General District only for the uses set forth in the following regulations:
(a) Principal Permitted Uses.
(1) Office, laboratories, production, distribution, service, and church uses permitted in any Light Industrial District (all other business, service, institutional, and residential uses are not permitted):
(2) Manufacturing processes conducted wholly within an enclosed building; cutting, forging, stamping, casting, extrusion, drilling, machining, welding, brazing, soldering, sawing, cleaning, shot and sand blasting, grinding, enameling, painting, galvanizing finishing, heat-treating and rust-proofing, as a component process in connection with the production and assembly of the products;
(3) Metal production. Cutting, electric, gas and ultrasonic welding; grinding, machining and finishing as incidental component operations, (but not as a single operation) only in the production and/or assembly of products which have a high value in relation to bulk, such as automotive and aircraft parts; electrical and electronic equipment, motors, lamps, fixtures and clocks; hardware, cutlery and kitchen utensils; musical and scientific instruments; medical, orthopedic and photographic instruments and equipment; machine tools, lathes, presses, stamping machines, woodworking machines and screw machines; and sporting goods, athletic equipment, toys;
(4) Transportation services. The storage and maintenance of trucks and loading, unloading equipment for the purpose of transporting materials and equipment upon highways in general;
(5) Airports;
(6) Grain elevators and feed mills.
(b) A conditional land use permit shall be required for the following uses in the M-2 District.
(1) Manufacturing of acid, derivatives, ammunition, cement, chlorine, fireworks or explosives, gelatins, grease or tallow, gun powder, and the distillation of wood, coal, and other distillers;
(2) Natural gas and oil petroleum wells;
(3) Slaughter houses and stockyards;
(4) The blending, mixing and packaging of disinfectants, fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, ink, soap, detergents, and related household and industrial chemical compounds, but excluding the manufacture of primary chemicals or chemical compounds;
(5) Making of ferrous metal and metal alloy products from brass, pewter, tin, lead or aluminum and the smelting or foundering of such metals;
(6) The mining of natural resources, including the extraction of sand, gravel, fill dirt, topsoil and stone;
(7) Junk storage and sales (salvage operations). Junk storage and sales shall be effectively screened on all sides by means of walls, fences or plantings. Walls or fences shall be a minimum of ten feet in height with no advertising thereon. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than eight feet in height may be substituted. Storage of materials shall not exceed the height of the screening.
(8) Similar Uses Permitted. Any other manufacturing use not listed above or in any industrial district if considered and found similar by the Commission.
(9) Accessory Uses Permitted.
A. Storage of materials and products and processes clearly accessory to the main use;
(Ord. 2164. Passed 3-17-14.)