(A) Use by right. The principal uses permitted in the M-2 Medium Manufacturing District are designed by use units. The use units are groupings of individual uses and are fully described, including their respective off-street parking, loading, and screening requirements and other use conditions in §§ 153.141 to 153.174. The use units permitted in the M-2 Medium Manufacturing District are set forth below.
(1) Use Unit 1 - areawide uses by right.
(2) Use Unit 3 - public protection and utility facilities.
(3) Use Unit 10 - off-street parking areas.
(4) Use Unit 11 - offices and studios.
(5) Use Unit 15 - other trades and services (sexually oriented businesses only by special exception).
(6) Use Unit 16 - gasoline service stations.
(7) Use Unit 17 - automotive and allied activities.
(8) Use Unit 21 - business signs and outdoor advertising.
(9) Use Unit 22 - research and development.
(10) Use Unit 23 - warehousing and wholesaling.
(11) Use Unit 25 - light manufacturing.
(12) Use Unit 26 - medium manufacturing and Industry.
(13) Other uses. Other uses or enterprises similar to the above, which in the judgment of the Area Plan Commission Board or Board of Zoning Appeals are similar to and not more objectionable to the general welfare, than the uses listed. Other uses so determined shall be regarded as listed uses. In no instance, however, shall the Area Plan Commission Board or Board of Zoning Appeals determine nor the regulations be so interpreted, that a use shall be permitted in this district where such use is specifically listed as a Use by special exception in this district.
(14) Use unit 29 - mobile office trailer, so long as property does not abut a residential district.
(B) Use by special exception. Special exception uses may be permitted by the Board of Zoning Appeals following a public hearing, as indicated below, when such are deemed essential or desirable to the public convenience or welfare and are in harmony with the various elements or objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
(1) Use Unit 2 - areawide special exception uses.
(2) Use Unit 12 - entertainment and eating establishments.
(3) Use Unit 13 - convenience goods and services.
(4) Use Unit 14 - shopping goods and services.
(5) Use Unit 15 - sexually oriented businesses.
(6) Use Unit 18 - drive-in restaurants.
(7) Use Unit 19 - hotel, motel and recreation facilities.
(8) Use Unit 20 - commercial recreation: intensive.
(9) Use Unit 24 - mining and mineral processing.
(10) Use Unit 27 - heavy manufacturing and industry.
(11) Use unit 29 - mobile office trailer when property abuts a residential district.
(C) Limitations on uses by right and special exception.
(1) All processes and activities are to be within an enclosed building; while outdoor storage is permitted, it must be completely screened from the public right-of-way and abutting properties:
(a) Unless permitted through a use requiring a special exception approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals;
(b) Except accessory parking lots and service stations;
(c) Except retail stores in Use Units 14 and 15 involving the sale or rental of building materials, lawn and garden equipment, lumber, shrubs, trees and flowers; and
(d) Except uses in Use Unit 17 (automobile and allied products).
(2) All products shall be sold as retail on the premises.
(3) All on-site lighting shall be directed toward the structures on-site and away from any neighboring residential districts.
(4) Sexually oriented business.
(a) No person shall cause or permit the establishment of any sexually oriented businesses as defined in § 153.270 unless that business is specifically approved as a special exception by the Board of Zoning Appeals. This business may be established only within those conditions set by the Board of Zoning Appeals. See § 153.246(C)(4).
(b) The terminology “establishment of a sexually oriented business” shall be defined to include within its meaning the opening of such business as a new business, the relocation of such business, the enlargement of such business in either scope or area, and/or the conversion of an existing business location to any of the sexually oriented uses as defined in § 153.270.
(5) All junkyards, salvage yards, storage yards, outside storage yards, commercial vehicle and equipment parking lots, scrap yards, scrap metal reduction operations, garbage reduction operations, or similar operations to any of the afore listed shall be completely enclosed with an opaque fence not less than eight feet in height. This fencing requirement is mandatory for all storage areas for inoperable vehicles or inoperable equipment in conjunction with repair shops or similar operations when such storage areas abut the residential or office districts or are visible from the public way.
(D) Accessory uses permitted. Those accessory uses which are customarily incidental to a permitted principal use are also permitted in the M-2 Districts.
(E) Accessory use conditions.
(1) Accessory buildings shall meet the minimum building setback lines of the applicable district.
(2) An accessory building which is erected as an integral part of the principal building shall be structurally a part thereof. The accessory building shall have a common wall therewith, and shall comply with the requirements applicable to the principal building.
(3) Accessory storage of materials, equipment, or products within 200 feet of an abutting R District shall be screened by the erection of a screening wall or fence along the lot line or lines in common with the abutting R District.
(4) Signs in the manufacturing districts, whether accessoiy or principal uses, are subject to the use conditions set forth in Use Unit 21.
(Ord. 12-16, passed 8-8-12; Am. Ord. 12-22, passed 11-1-12; Am. Ord. 13-9, passed 5-16-13)