1165.01 PURPOSE.
The purpose of the M-2 District is to encourage the development of major manufacturing, processing, warehousing, major research and testing operations. These activities require extensive community facilities and reasonable access to arterial thoroughfares.
A. Permitted Uses
1. All permitted uses listed in Section 1163.01.A.
(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99.)
2. Adult entertainment businesses (see Section 1173.019), and skill- based amusement machine businesses.
(Ord. 10-006. Passed 3-16-10.)
3. Manufacturing and Processing. Provided that these establishments comply with the performance standards in Chapter 1173.
a. Automobile assembly, food processing and packaging, breweries and liquor distilleries, forge and foundry work, warehousing.
b. Trucking terminals and freight stations.
4. The following uses when conducted no closer than three hundred feet (300') from any R District.
a. Ammonia, chlorine, or bleaching powder manufacture.
b. Charcoal and fuel briquette manufacture.
c. Cellulose, pyroxylin.
d. Crematory.
e. Creosote manufacture or treatment.
f. Rubber manufacturing or treatment from crude or scrap materials.
g. Any other use which is determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals to be of the same general character as the uses in this subsection. (Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99.)
5. Internet Sweepstakes Cafes, subject to Chapter 1174.
6. Accessory structures and uses incidental to the above uses.
(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99; Ord. 2011-021. Passed 5-17-11.)
B. Conditional Uses
1. Junk yards and automotive wrecking.
2. Smelting of ferrous or non-ferrous ores.
3. Steel manufacturing.
4. Storage, drying, and cleaning of iron, junk, rags, glass, cloth, paper, or clipping, including refining, baling, wool pulling, and scouring.
5. Any other use deemed to be which is determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals to be of the same general character as the uses listed in this Section.
(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99.)
(Ord. 2001-04. Passed 1-16-01.)
C. Prohibited Uses
The following uses are expressly prohibited:
1. Acid manufacture.
2. Asphalt, cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster manufacture.
3. Explosives, manufacture, or storage.
4. Dry fertilizer, compost, manufacture, or storage.
5. Fish curing, smoking, or packing, fish oil manufacture.
6. Garbage, dead animals, refuse, rancid fats, or chemicals; incineration, reduction, or storage.
7. Glue manufacture, size, or gelatin where processes include refining and recovery, or products from fish, animal refuse, or offal.
8. Hog farm.
9. Animal stockyards, feed yards, or slaughtering.
10. Storage, curing, or tanning of hides or skins.
11. Distillation of coal, petroleum, refuse, grain, wood, or bones, except in the manufacture of gas.
12. Petroleum or flammable liquids production, refining, and storage above ground (not in excess of 100 gallons).
13. Natural gas, generation, or storage for heating and other uses.
14. Nuclear material storage.
15. Carbon black, graphite, lamp black.
D. Required Conditions
1. Enclosed Buildings. All businesses, services, or processing under Section 1165.01.A. shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for the sale of automobile fuel, lubricants, and fluids at service stations, loading and unloading operations, parking, the outdoor display or storage of vehicles, materials and equipment, and flammable liquids.
2. Night Operation. No building customarily used for night operation shall have any opening other than stationary windows or required exits within two hundred feet (200') of any R Districts; any space used for loading or unloading commercial vehicles in connection with such an operation shall not be within one hundred feet (100') of any R District.
(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99.)
E. Development Standards
1. Lot Area, Frontage, and Yard Requirements: The following minimum requirements shall be observed, except as otherwise provided herein.
Permitted and Conditional Uses | |
Minimum Lot Area | None |
Minimum Lot Width | None |
Minimum Front Yard | 25 feet |
Minimum Side Yard | 25 feet |
Minimum Lot Frontage | 200 feet |
Minimum Rear Yard | |
1 Story | 30 feet |
2 story | 40 feet |
3 Story | 50 feet |
Height | Five additional feet for each additional story within 200 feet of any R District, no structure shall exceed 50 feet in height, except as provided in Section 1173.08. |
(Ord. 99-45. Passed 7-13-99; Ord. 2001-64. Passed 8-7-01.)