Fowler Municipal Code Art. 15 M-2—HEAVY Industrial District

This district is to be applied to areas designated Heavy Industrial on the General Plan and is reserved for more intense manufacturing and processing uses.

All uses shall be subject to the provisions of Article 21.

A. Any use permitted in the M-1 district.

B. Heavy industrial and related uses including:

1. Aircraft and parts manufacture;

2. Automobile, truck and trailer accessories and parts manufacture;

3. Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacturing;

4. Battery manufacture;

5. Box factories and cooperage;

6. Building materials manufacture and assembly;

7. Business machine and computer manufacture;

8. Can and metal container manufacture;

9. Candle manufacture, not including rendering;

10. Carpet and rug manufacture;

11. Cotton ginning, cotton seed processing and lint manufacture;

12. Clay products manufacture including brick, fire brick, tile and pipe;

13. Detergent manufacture;

14. Food products manufacture including such processing as cooking, roasting, pasteurization and extracting involved in the preparation of such products as cereal, chocolate products, cider and vinegar, coffee, fruits and vegetables, milk and dairy products, syrups, margarine, pickles, sauerkraut, sugar, vegetable oils and yeast;

15. Glass and glass products manufacture;

16. Graphite and graphite products manufacture;

17. Ink manufacture;

18. Agricultural, industrial, and household chemical compounds manufacture;

19. Leather and fur finishing and dyeing, not including tanning and curing;

20. Machinery manufacture;

21. Machine tools manufacture including metal lathes, metal presses, metal stamping machines, and woodworking machines;

22. Meat products processing and packaging, not including slaughtering and glue and size manufacture;

23. Metal alloys and foil manufacture;

24. Metal casting and foundries not including magnesium foundries;

25. Motor and generator manufacture and testing;

26. Plastic manufacture;

27. Porcelain products manufacture including bathroom and kitchen fixtures;

28. Precious metals smelting and refining;

29. Railroad repair shops;

30. Rock, sand, and gravel storage and distribution;

31. Sand blasting;

32. Soda and compound manufacture;

33. Steel products manufacture and assembly;

34. Stone products manufacture and stone processing including abrasives, asbestos, stone screening and sand and lime products;

35. Storage, collecting or baling of iron, junk, paper, rags, or scrap;

36. Structural steel products manufacture including bars, girders, rail and wire rope;

37. Textile bleaching;

38. Wire and cable manufacturing;

39. Wool pulling or scouring;

40. Wood and lumber processing and woodworking including planing mills and saw mills, excelsior, plywood, veneer and wood-preserving treatment.

(Ord. No. 2013-01, § 14, 9-3-2013; Ord. No. 2020-06, § 7, 11-17-2020)

The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the provisions of Article 24:

A. Electrical distribution substations, communication equipment buildings, gas regulator stations, and utility pumping stations;

B. Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use permitted by administrative approval, or conditional use;

C. Expansion or remodeling of an existing nonconforming use of a structure or land, up to fifty (50) percent or less of the value of the structure, or reestablishment of a nonconforming use that has been damaged, except nonconforming signs and outdoor advertising structures, nonconforming uses occupying a structure with an assessed valuation of less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and nonconforming fences, walls, and hedges.

Uses permitted subject to a conditional use permit shall be as follows (see Article 25):

A. The following uses that involve nuisances or hazards to health and safety, provided that the Commission shall make a specific finding that the use can be expected to conform with each of the required conditions prescribed for a conditional use permit. The Commission may require technical reports consultants or other evidence in addition to the data prescribed in Article 26.

1. Outdoor advertising structure (billboard);

2. Automobile dismantling and used parts storage, provided such parts storage must be within an enclosed building;

3. Asphalt and asphalt products manufacture;

4. Breweries and wineries;

5. Cement, lime, gypsum and plaster of paris manufacture;

6. Charcoal, lampblack and fuel briquettes manufacture;

7. Chemical products manufacture including acetylene, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, chlorine, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrating of cotton or other materials, nitrates of an explosive nature, potash, rayon yarn, and carbolic, hydrochloric, picric and sulphuric acids;

8. Coal, coke and tar products manufacture;

9. Concrete and concrete products manufacture;

10. Drop forges;

11. Dumps and slag piles;

12. Electric generating stations;

13. Electroplating shops;

14. Explosives manufacture and storage;

15. Fertilizer manufacture;

16. Film manufacture;

17. Firearms manufacture;

18. Fireworks manufacture and storage;

19. Fish products processing and packaging;

20. Fuel manufacture or storage, including bio-fuels;

21. Gravel, rock and cement yards;

22. Garbage and refuse dumps;

23. Gas and oil wells;

24. Gelatin and glue manufacture from animal or fish refuse;

25. Grain rolling and storage;

26. Incineration or reduction of garbage, offal and dead animals;

27. Junk yards;

28. Lard manufacture;

29. Linoleum and oil cloth manufacture;

30. Liquefied petroleum gas bulk storage and delivery;

31. Magnesium foundries;

32. Manure, peat and topsoil processing and storage;

33. Metal and metal ores reduction, refining, smelting and alloying;

34. Motor vehicles wrecking yards;

35. Paint manufacture including enamel, lacquer, shellac, turpentine and varnish;

36. Paper products manufacture;

37. Paper mills;

38. Petroleum and petroleum products refining and storage;

39. Rifle and pistol ranges;

40. Rubber manufacture or processing including natural or synthetic rubber;

41. Rubber products manufacture including tires and tubes;

42. Soap manufacture including fat rendering;

43. Solid waste recycling;

44. Steam plants;

45. Stone quarries, gravel pits, mines and stone mills;

46. Storage of inflammable liquids;

47. Storage of used building materials;

48. Tallow manufacture;

49. Tanneries and curing and storage of rawhides;

50. Wood and bones distillation;

51. Wood pulp and fiber reduction and processing.

B. Public buildings and grounds;

C. Planned Unit Development subject to provisions of Article 28;

D. Bulk storage and delivery of fuel, including liquified petroleum gas;

E. Automobile and recreational vehicle storage yards;

F. Recycling and wood yards;

G. Business park.

(Ord. No. 2013-01, § 15, 9-3-2013)

A. Where a site adjoins any non-industrial district, a solid wall or screen fence six (6) feet in height or such other height or type of screening device as may be required by the Director, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard.

B. A use not conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, on a site across a street or alley from any non-industrial district, shall be screened by a decorative masonry wall not less than six (6) feet in height, if found by the Director to be unsightly.

C. No fence or wall shall exceed six (6) feet in height if located in a required side or rear yard or three (3) feet in height if located in a required front yard, except that a chain-link fence greater than three (3) feet in height may be located in any portion of a required front yard.

A. All open and unlandscaped portions of any lot shall be maintained in good condition free from weeds, dust, trash, and debris.

B. No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be employed that is found to be injurious to persons residing or working in the vicinity by reason of odor, dust, smoke, refuse, noise, vibrations, glare or heavy truck traffic or to involve any hazard of fire, explosion or radio-activity or to emit electrical disturbances that adversely affect commercial or electronic equipment outside the boundaries of the site.

C. No solid or liquid wastes shall be discharged except in compliance with applicable regulations.

D. No use shall emit particulate matter or other air pollutants in excess of applicable emission standards of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, the State, or the Federal Government.

E. All uses shall be subject to the performance standards of Article 14.

The minimum site area shall be one-half (½) acre.

A. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be ten (10) feet.

B. Rear and Side Yards. No rear yard or side yards shall be required except as provided below:

1. The minimum rear yard abutting any non-industrial district shall be fifteen (15) feet.

2. On a reversed corner lot adjoining a key lot in any non-industrial district, the minimum side yard adjoining the street shall not be less than fifteen (15) feet.

3. The minimum side yard abutting any non-industrial district shall be fifteen (15) feet.

No building shall exceed a height of seventy-five (75) feet, except as may be provided in Article 27.

Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be provided as prescribed in Article 20.

No sign shall be permitted except as provided in Article 22.

A site plan shall be submitted and approved in accordance with the provisions of Article 26.