Chapter 17.28 — M MANUFACTURING DISTRICT

The purpose of the M district is to provide working areas within the city for the assembly, repair and fabrication of goods and products. To protect areas appropriate for industrial uses from intrusion by residences and other inharmonious uses and to provide opportunities for certain types of uses to concentrate in mutually-beneficial relationships to each other. This district is intended for application to those areas designated as industrial uses in the general plan. (Prior code § 30-209)

Uses permitted in the M district include:

1. All business and professional offices as defined in the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, on file in the office of the city clerk;

2. All eating and drinking places;

3. All entertainment and recreational facilities;

4. All financial, insurance and real estate uses;

5. All personal and business and automotive services;

6. All retail uses and department stores;

7. All wholesale sales;

8. All uses listed under Construction in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

9. All uses listed under Manufacturing in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

10. All uses listed under Transportation and Public Utilities in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

11. All uses listed under Wholesale Trade in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual;

12. Animal hospitals and veterinarians;

13. Accessory buildings;

14. Auto sales and services;

15. Boat sales and services;

16. Bottling plants;

17. Building supply establishments;

18. Businesses generally utilizing outdoor storage as part of their operations;

19. Cabinet shops;

20. Car laundries;

21. Carpet-cleaning plants;

22. Ceramic products, including the manufacturing thereof using only pulverized clay and kilns fired electricity or low-pressure gas;

23. Communications;

24. Drive-in restaurants;

25. Farm equipment sales and services;

26. Food lockers;

27. Fuel and ice dealers;

28. General contractors yards;

29. Laundromats;

30. Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation;

31. Lumber and building material dealers;

32. Motels;

33. Parcel delivery services;

34. Parking lots;

35. Printing shops;

36. Production of dairy products;

37. Repair shops;

38. Service stations;

39. Truck repair and maintenance;

40. Used automobile or truck parts;

41. Used or wrecked automobile storage;

42. Warehousing;

43. Wholesale bakery;

44. Wholesale cleaning, laundry and dyeing plants;

45. Other Uses. Other uses may be permitted which are similar in nature or operation to the above, if approved by the planning commission as to location and development;

46. Improvements to existing residential uses in M zone do not require planning commission approval. (Prior code § 30-209.1)

All uses listed shall not be permitted to locate in an M district unless a use permit from the planning commission is first secured:

• A. Alcohol manufacture;

• B. Asphalt manufacturing or refining;

• C. Boiler works;

• D. Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacturing;

• E. Fish smoking, curing or canning;

• F. Freight classification yards;

• G. Mortuaries;

• H. Oilcloth or linoleum manufacturing;

• I. Paint, oil (including linseed) shellac, turpentine lacquer or vanish manufacturing;

• J. Petroleum products manufacturing or wholesale storage of petroleum;

• K. Plastic manufacturing;

• L. Processing of junk, waste, discorded or salvaged materials, machinery or equipment, including automobile wrecking or dismantling;

M. Public utility services. (Prior code § 30-209.2)

The following uses are prohibited in the M district:

• A. Acetylene gas manufacturing or bulk storage;

• B. Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacturing;

• C. Chemical manufacturing;

• D. Iron or steel foundry or fabrication plant and heavyweight castings;

• E. Rolling mills;

• F. Sodium compounds manufacturing. (Prior code § 30-209.3)

In the M-1 district the height of buildings and the maximum dimensions of yards and lots shall be as follows:

• A. Height. The maximum building height shall be fifty-five feet.

• B. Yard and Areas.

  1. Front Yard. None required except where adjacent properties abutting upon the M use are in a zone of greater requirements, then the front yard shall conform to the more restrictive zone;

  2. Side Yards. None required except where the side yard of the M use abuts upon the side yard of a residential or an RP use, then the side yard shall be ten feet;

  3. Rear Yards. A minimum yard of twenty feet shall be required;

  4. Lot Area. No minimum;

5. Lot Coverage. No maximum.

(Prior code § 30-209.4; Ord. 631 Exh. A, 1989)

• A. Parking. See Chapter 17.42 for parking requirements.

• B. Fencing. See Chapter 17.40 for fencing requirements.

• C. Signs. See Chapter 17.38 for sign requirements. (Prior code § 30-209.5)

• A. Residential uses are limited to a caretaker or the owner of the establishment shall be permitted on the premises. Such uses shall require a use permit and the yard requirements, density and other matters relative to the yard and area shall be subject to the planning commission's approval.

• B. Uses, operations or products within this district shall be permitted within this district unless such uses are or may become obnoxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, noise, gas, fumes, cinders, vibration, glare, refuse matter or water-carried waste.

• C. Any complaints filed against the use for any of the above reasons shall be reviewed by the planning director with a technical report rendered to the planning commission. The planning commission shall decide the validity of the complaint and the corrective action needed to be taken.

(Prior code § 30-209.6; Ord. 631 Exh. A, 1989)