§ 122-192. Permitted uses and structures.

(a)

Table of permitted uses. The permitted and special uses allowed in the M-1 and M-2 zoning districts are listed in table 122-192.

(b)

Uses not listed in table of permitted uses. A land use which is not cited by name as a permitted use in an M-1 or M-2 zoning district may be permitted upon determination by the planning department staff that such use is clearly similar in nature and intensity and compatible with the permitted and existing uses in the district. In making such a determination, the planning department staff shall consider the following:

(1)

Similarity and compatibility. In making the determination of similarity and compatibility with permitted and existing uses in the district, planning department staff shall consider specific characteristics of the use in question and compare such characteristics with those of the uses which are expressly permitted in the district. Such characteristics shall include, but are not limited to, truck and vehicular traffic generation, types of services offered, types of goods produced, methods of operation, impacts from noise, air contaminants, odor, heat, fire hazards, and water contaminants, and building and site characteristics.

(2)

Conditions under which use may be permitted. If planning department staff determines that the proposed use is similar to and compatible with permitted and existing uses in the district, then planning department staff shall decide whether the proposed use is permitted by right, as a special use, or as a permitted accessory use. The proposed use shall be subject to the review and approval regulations for the district in which it is located.

Table 122-192. Table of District Uses

•	= Use is permitted	SU	= Special use
X	= Use is not permitted

 

Use			Zoning Districts		Supplemental Standards and Regulations
			M-1	M-2
A.	Accessory uses.		•	•	See § 122-193(b).
B.	Breweries and distilleries.		•	•	Tap/tasting rooms and outdoor food and alcohol service are permitted.
C.	Central dry cleaning plants and laundries.		SU	•	Shall not conduct business with customers at a retail level.
D.	Commercial Kennels.		SU	SU	See § 122-483.
E.	Commercial/Office - Clinic, institutional uses, office uses, restaurants, bars and lounges, and retail and service businesses identified in Table 122-152.		SU	SU	Uses shall be in accordance with § 122-152 and §122-153.
F.	Concrete Plants		X	SU	See § 122-193 (a).
G.	Construction equipment and related equipment sales, leasing and storage.		SU	•	Except for outdoor sales and display areas, companies engaged in sales, leasing or storage of construction and related equipment shall comply with the regulations of § 122-193(a).
H.	Contractor storage yards.		X	SU	See § 122-193(a).
I.	Data processing and computer centers.		•	•
J.	Essential services.		•	•	See § 122-57.
K.	Heating and electric power generating plants and all accessory uses.		X	SU	See § 122-493.
L.	Greenhouse and plant nurseries, including outdoor storage of plant material.		•	•	See § 122-488.
M.	Industrial uses not listed in this table.		See § 122-192(b).
N.	Laboratories involved in research, design, testing, prototype product development.		•	•
O.	Landscape contractor's operation.		SU	•	Outdoor storage of plant material is permitted in the M-1 and M-2 districts. Outdoor storage of landscape materials, such as mulch, top soil, stone, etc., is permitted in accordance with the regulations of § 122-193(a).
P.	Machine shops, metal buffing, plastering and polishing shops.		•	•
Q.	Manufacturing, processing, fabricating, compounding, treatment, packaging or assembly related to the following:
	1.	Motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies, parts and accessories.	X	•
	2.	Asphalt emulsion and distribution facility.	X	SU	See § 122-193(d).
	3.	Chemicals and allied products.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	4.	Distillation of bone, tar, petroleum refuse, grain or wood.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	5.	Electrical and electronic machinery and parts.	•	•
	6.	Fabricated metal products, machinery and transportation equipment.	•	•
	7.	Food products.	•	•	Shall not include stockyards, slaughterhouses, and rendering plants.
	8.	Furniture and fixtures.	•	•
	9.	Leather and leather products.	•	•
	10.	Lumber and wood products, including lumber yards and building materials sales establishments.	•	•	Lumber yards or building material sales establishments may have partially open storage buildings (instead of fully-enclosed). The ground floor premises facing upon and visible from any abutting street shall be enclosed by an exterior building wall and used only for entrances, offices, sales or display.
	11.	Machinery.	•	•
	12.	Metal recycling plants where scrap metal and metal products are melted.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	13.	Oil and gas processing plants.	X	SU	See § 122-193(c).
	14.	Paper and allied products.	•	•	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	15.	Photographic and optical equipment.	•	•
	16.	Primary metal industries.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	17.	Printing, publishing and allied industries.	•	•
	18.	Processes that use steam or board hammers or forging presses which exceed OSHA section XXX.	X	SU
	19.	Processing of corrosive acid, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster.	X	SU
	20.	Processing of fertilizer or storage of compost.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	21.	Processing of products from animal refuse or offal, including glue, size or gelatin.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	22.	Processing of sulphurous, sulfuric, picric, nitric, carbolic, hydrochloric or other corrosive acids.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	23.	Processing or storage of manufactured explosives, including dynamite, plastique, blasting caps, etc.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	24.	Professional and scientific instruments.	•	•
	25.	Recycling where materials are incinerated.	X	SU	Shall be located a minimum of 2,640 feet from any residential use, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and similar uses.
	26.	Rubber and plastic products, including manufacture of products from recycled plastic.	•	•
	27.	Sheet metal products (including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves, etc.).	•	•	Stamping, pressing, and reforming of major sheet metal shall be permitted in the M-2 district only, subject to special use approval.
	28.	Sludge processing plants.	X	SU
	29.	Stone, clay and glass products, including brick and block products.	•	•	See § 122-193(a).
	30.	Tanning, curing or storage of skins or hides.	X	SU
	31.	Textiles, apparel and other fabric products.	•	•
	32.	Transportation equipment.	X	•
R.	Motor freight transportation and related facilities.		SU	•	Trucks and trailers shall be parked such that they are not visible from property located in a residential, business, office or waterfront zoning district. Loudspeakers shall not be mounted on the exterior of buildings or structures. Outdoor storage is permitted in accordance with the provisions of section 122-193(a).
S.	Motor vehicle dismantlers and salvage yards.		X	SU	See § 122-193(e).
T.	Motor vehicle and/or vehicle impound yards.		X	SU	Outdoor motor vehicle, vehicle and material storage areas shall comply with the regulations of section 122-193(a). Motor vehicles, vehicles and materials stored on the site shall be completely screened from view from any public street. Loudspeakers shall not be mounted on the exterior of buildings or structures.
U.	Motor vehicle rental and leasing agencies.		SU	SU	See § 122-485.
V.	Motor vehicle repair garages, including tire, battery, muffler, undercoating and rustproofing establishments, and quick oil change or lubrication stations.		•	•	See § 122-487. Tire recapping and retreading facilities are permitted in the M-2 district only.
W.	Outdoor storage yards.		SU	SU	Shall comply with the regulations of section 122-193(a).
X.	Open storage yards.		X	SU	See § 122-489.
Y.	Painting and sheet metal shops.		•	•
Z.	Planned Unit Development.		•	•	Permitted subject to the provisions of article XI.
AA.	Processing, refining and/or storage of foodstuffs.		X	•
BB.	Public utility or municipal service buildings (including electric or gas service buildings or yards, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations, gas regulator stations, and water treatment plants).		•	•	See § 122-493. Water treatment plants are allowed only in the M-2 zoning district.
CC.	Radio and television transmitting and receiving towers.		SU	SU	See § 122-490.
DD.	Railroad transfer and maintenance facilities.		X	SU
EE.	Recreational vehicle storage yards.		SU	SU
FF.	Recycling collection centers and stations, but not including sorting and cleaning facilities.		SU	•	Sorting and cleaning facilities are permitted in the M-2 district.
GG.	Self-service storage facility.		SU	X	See § 122-491.
HH.	Solid waste transfer station.		SU	SU	See § 122-493.
II.	Stockyards, slaughterhouses, and rendering plants.		X	SU
JJ.	Tank farms.		X	SU	Tank farms shall be allowed where all abutting land is zoned M-2. Applicants shall be required to provide proof of permits and approvals required by applicable federal and state agencies having jurisdiction over the establishment and operation of such facilities.
KK.	Tool and die shops.		•	•
LL.	New and used motor vehicle,truck, tractor, watercraft, mobile home, recreation vehicle, and trailer sales, rental or repair.		SU	SU	See § 122-485 and 122-487.
MM.	Truck and trailer parking for transport operations accessory to a permitted or special use.		•	•	See § 122-193(a)(8). Trailers parked on a site shall not be used for the accessory storage of goods or materials.
NN.	Welding shops.		•	•
OO.	Wholesale and warehousing related to the following:
	1.	Automotive equipment.	•	•
	2.	Dry goods and apparel.	•	•
	3.	Electrical goods.	•	•
	4.	Furniture and home furnishings.	•	•
	5.	Groceries and related products.	•	•
	6.	Hardware.	•	•
	7.	Heating equipment and supplies.	•	•
	8.	Machinery and equipment.	•	•
	9.	Paper and paper products.	•	•
	10.	Plumbing.	•	•
	11.	Raw farm products.	•	•	Livestock is not included in this category.
	12.	Tobacco and tobacco products.	•	•
	13.	Any commodity the manufacture of which is permitted in that district.	•	•
	14.	Wireless Communication and collocation of wireless communication equipment on alternative tower structures	SU	SU	See § 122-70.

 

(Ord. No. 2005-11, 11-21-05; Ord. No. 2008-17, § 12, 12-15-08; Ord. No. 2010-1, § 2, 1-4-10; Ord. No. 2010-21, § 9, 12-20-10; Ord. No. 2012-8, § 8, 6-18-12; Ord. No. 2016-2 , § 4, 3-21-16)