MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICE: A. Major: Facilities providing equipment maintenance and repair services and materials storage areas. This classification includes, but is not limited to, corporation yards and equipment service centers, and excludes maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
B. Minor: Establishments providing appliance repair, office machine repair, or building maintenance services. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
MANUFACTURED HOME: A factory built structure, transported in one or more sections, that meets the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act, commonly known as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Code. The term manufactured home does not include a recreational vehicle.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION: A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two (2) or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
MANUFACTURING: The mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts, the creation of products, and the blending of materials.
MAY: For the purposes of this Development Code, "may" is generally used to indicate a standard or requirement that is permitted or allowed.
MEDIAN: An island in the center of the street, highway, or other surface intended for vehicle circulation that separates opposing traffic flows.
MICROCLIMATE: The climate of a small, distinct area, such as a city street or a building's courtyard; can be favorably altered through functional landscaping, architecture or other design features.
MINI-MALL: A shopping center of from eighty thousand (80,000) to one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) square feet in size located on a site of eight (8) to fifteen (15) acres where tenants are located on both sides of a walkway having direct pedestrian access to all establishments from the walkway. Mini-malls usually function as neighborhood shopping centers or specialty shopping centers. Mini-malls usually do not require an anchor store.
MINI-WAREHOUSING/STORAGE: See definition of warehousing and storage facility: limited.
MINING: The act or process of extracting resources, such as coal, oil, or minerals, from the earth.
MITIGATE: To ameliorate, alleviate, or avoid to the extent reasonably feasible.
MIXED USE: Properties on which various uses, such as office, commercial, institutional, and residential, are combined in a single building or on a single site in an integrated development project with significant functional interrelationships and a coherent physical design. A single site may include contiguous properties.
MOBILEHOME: A manufactured dwelling unit designed for use as a single-family dwelling capable of being transported to a site on a trailer or on wheels in one or more sections and not designed to be affixed to a permanent foundation. A mobilehome is not considered a building, as defined by the Uniform Building Code.
MOBILEHOME PARK: A type of residential development, established either as a legal subdivision of land with individual mobilehome pads and common areas or as a development where pads are leased or rented, for the purpose of accommodating mobilehome units on individual pads as part of a coordinated development. A mobilehome park may include common areas and facilities for the use of all park residents.
MODULAR OFFICE: A manufactured unit not designed for use as a single-family dwelling that is capable of being transported to a site on a trailer or on wheels in one or more sections and not designed to be affixed to a permanent foundation.
MOTEL: A. A hotel for motorists.
B. A facility in which guest rooms or suites are offered to the general public for lodging with or without meals and for compensation, and where guest parking is provided in proximity to guestrooms. Quite often, provision is made for cooking in individual guest rooms or suites.
C. A commercial land use providing short term shelter for twenty eight (28) or fewer days in one or more buildings on the same lot. The buildings contain guestrooms or dwelling units or both, which are usually individually and independently accessible from outside the building. Motel includes motor lodge, tourist court, motor hotel or any other designation intended to identify the premises as providing for rental or overnight accommodation primarily to motorists.
MOTOR VEHICLE: Any motorized vehicle designed to operate on a public street including, but not limited to, automobiles, motorcycles, trucks and recreational vehicles.
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR: A. Major: A place providing a full range of repair and maintenance services for motor vehicles, including, cylinder head replacement, valve grinding or replacement, clutch replacement or repair, replace transmission, rear end, rear axles, kingpins, bodywork, engine or transmission removal, fuel tank repair, radiator or heater core repair or replacement, painting; or repair activities that require entry into the engine other than those specifically defined as minor automobile repair.
B. Minor: A place performing the following repair and maintenance services for motor vehicles not exceeding one ton carrying capacity, including any of the following:
1. Tune Ups: Major and minor tune up involving spark plugs, points, condensers, valve adjustment, carburetor overhaul, adjustment of fuel injection systems, fuel pump and all necessary filters;
2. Lubrication: Oil changes and filter replacement, transmission and rear end oil change;
3. Cooling System: Remove and replace radiator; replace water pump, heater and other hoses; replace thermostats; recharge air conditioners;
4. Drive Train: Replacement of drive shaft universal bearings, center support bushing, accelerator and brake cables; minor repair of hydraulic systems; replacement of shock absorbers;
5. Brakes: Remove and replace shoes and brake pads; rebuild master and wheel cylinders and disc caliper; adjustment of brakes; machine work related to turning of drums or disc;
6. Wheels: Adjust steering box; replacement of rubber bushings in suspension; wheel balancing; wheel alignment; replacement of wheel bearings; tire changes and repair;
7. Electrical: Charge battery; remove, repair and replace starter, alternator and regulator; rewiring of automobile and lights; repair or replacement of gauges; installation of radios;
8. Fuel System: Change and repair of fuel lines; replace fuel gauge sending unit;
9. Exhaust System: Tailpipe and muffler replacement.
Any activity combining minor and major motor vehicle repair shall be defined as "major motor vehicle repair".
MUSEUM, LIBRARY, ART GALLERY, OUTDOOR EXHIBIT: Public or quasi- public facilities, examples of which include: aquariums, arboretums, art galleries and exhibitions, botanical gardens, historic sites and exhibits, libraries, museums, planetariums, and zoos. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014; amd. Ord. 268, 7-18-2017)