Ferndale Zoning Code § 5.08 Limited Industrial or ML Zone

The Limited Industrial or ML Zone is intended to apply to areas in which light manufacturing and heavy commercial uses of the non-nuisance type and large administrative facilities are the desirable predominant uses. The following regulations shall apply in all Limited Industrial or ML Zones:

• 5.08.1 Principal permitted uses:

  • a. Stores, agencies and services such as: carpentry and cabinetry and cabinetmaking shops, clothing manufacturers, contractors’ yards, dry cleaning and laundry plants, handicraft manufacture, lumber yards, metal-working shops, wholesale outlet stores, painters’ and decorators’ yards, plumbing shops, printing and lithographing.

  • b. Administrative, business and professional offices.

  • c. Manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment, of household effects such as lamps, rugs and fabrics, research and development laboratories.

• 5.08.2 Uses permitted with a Use Permit

  • a. (Section amended by Ord. 2025-04 on 8/20/2025) Dwellings, small employee housing, Multiple Dwellings and Dwelling Groups, hotels, motels and mobile home parks.

  • b. Animal hospitals and kennels.

  • c. Animal feed and sales yards.

  • e. Manufacture of furniture, finished paper and paper products.

• 5.08.3 Other regulations:

  • a. Minimum lot area: 5,000 square feet.

  • b. Minimum lot width: 50 feet.

  • c. Minimum yards: front, 15 feet; rear, none, except where a rear yard abuts on an R Zone, such rear yard shall be not less than 20 feet; side, none, except where a side yard abuts on an R Zone, such side yard shall be not less than 15 feet, provided further, that such side yard of a motel shall be not less than 6 feet.

  • d. Maximum building height: 50 feet.

  • e. Special regulations: All manufacturing and fabricating areas shall be enclosed in buildings. All equipment and materials storage areas adjacent to R Zones shall be screened by walls, fences or adequate plantings to a height of not less than 6 feet.

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