Ferndale Zoning Code § 5.09 Heavy Industrial or M-H Zone

The Heavy Industrial or M-H Zone is intended to apply to areas devoted to normal operations of industries, subject only to such regulations as needed to control congestion and protect surrounding areas. The following regulations shall apply to all Heavy Industrial

• 5.09.1 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.

  • d. Dwellings, hotels, motels and mobile home parks.

  • e. Animal hospitals and kennels.

  • f. Animal feed and sales yards.

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

  • h. Industrial manufacturing uses, except as provided in 5.12.2.

• 5.09.2 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. Hog farms, turkey farms, frog farms and fur farms.

  • c. Animal products processing plants.

  • d. Cemeteries.

  • e. Amusement parks and commercial amusement enterprises.

  • f. Junk yards and garbage dumps.

  • g. Smelting or reduction of metallic ores.

  • h. Trailer camps.

  • i. Bag cleaning and rag works.

  • j. Manufacturing, refining and storage by manufacturers or wholesalers of petroleum or petroleum products, acids, cement, explosives, fireworks, gas, glue, gypsum and inflammable fluids or gases.

  • k. Drilling for oil or gas, or commercial excavation of sand, rock, gravel or other natural materials.

  • l. Manufacture of concrete, pottery or asphalted paving products.

• 5.09.3 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

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shall be screened by walls, fences or adequate plantings to a height of not less than 6 feet.