Chapter 18.44 — M-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

The purpose of the M-2 district is to permit the normal operations of almost all industries, subject only to those regulations needed to control congestion, manage traffic circulation, provide fire and natural hazard protection, to protect the surrounding areas or adjoining premises, to protect those industrial areas from intrusion by nonindustrial activities, and to enhance the land use harmony of the county. A differentiation is made in this district between those uses allowed by right and those allowed by use permit because those requiring use permits have a greater potential for negative impacts to the health, safety and general welfare of the neighborhood and because monitoring those uses will ensure the viability of their uses.

(Ord. 467 § 56, 1984)

The regulations set out in this chapter shall apply to all M-2 districts and shall be subject to Chapters 18.102 through 18.108 of this title.

(Ord. 467 § 56, 1984)

Uses permitted by right in an M-2 district shall be as follows:

• (1) Any use permitted by right in M-1 zones, except those commercial uses permitted pursuant to Section 18.42.035 , and except that activities confined to buildings in M-1 zones shall not be so confined in M-2 zones;

• (2) Canneries and agricultural processing;

• (3) Dairies, creameries and milk bottling or distributing stations;

• (4) Storage elevators;

• (5) Truck terminals and truck storage;

• (6) Ice manufacturing and cold storage;

• (7) Manufacturing or assembly of aircraft, automobiles, boilers, engines, motors and generators, mobile homes, trailers, railroad equipment, and other products which require the use of heavy machinery;

• (8) Dyeing establishments;

• (9) Bottlers, distilleries and wineries;

• (10) Metals, glass and paper recycling plants;

• (11) Fertilizer production;

(12) Bulk storage of oil, gasoline, propane, and similar products. (Ord. 467 § 56, 1984; Ord. 467-Q § 17, 1994; Ord. 467-AC § 20, 2003)

Uses permitted by use permit in an M-2 district shall be as follows:

• (1) Junkyard, wrecking yard and automobile dismantling;

• (2) Distillation of bones, fat rendering;

• (3) Foundries, smelting of ore;

• (4) Manufacturing of acid, alcohol, ammonia, asphalt, plastics, rubber, cellulose, cement, coal, dyes, explosives, fertilizer, fireworks, gelatin, glass, tar, paint, plaster, gypsum, flammable fluids or gases, hazardous chemicals including acetylene, carbide, caustic soda, chlorine, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents and industrial gases;

• (5) Commercial excavation of stone or earth materials;

• (6) Drilling for or removal of oil or gas;

• (7) Dumping, disposal or reduction of garbage, sewage, offal, dead animals, incineration or refuse;

• (8) Airstrips or heliports;

• (9) Commercial feed lots, animal auction and sales yards;

• (10) Concrete or asphalt batching plants;

• (11) Tanneries;

• (12) Race tracks for motorized and nonmotorized vehicles, including bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles and similar vehicles;

• (13) Power generation plants, all energy sources including biomass;

• (14) Sawmills;

• (15) Commercial hog raising and poultry raising;

• (16) Caretaker's residence; provided, that the permitted use requires the continuous supervision of a caretaker, superintendent or security person and the residence is to be occupied only by such person and his family;

(17) Buildings, structures or edifices requiring heights greater than the maximum allowed. (Ord. 467 § 56, 1984; Ord. 467-W § 4, 1998; Ord. 467-AC § 20, 2003)

Development standards and area requirements in an M-2 district shall be as follows:

• (1) Minimum Lot Size. Fourteen thousand square feet;

• (2) Minimum Lot Width. One hundred and ten feet; provided, that no lot shall be greater than four times wider than it is deep or greater than four times deeper than it is wide;

• (3) Minimum Front Yard Required. None, except that buildings shall not be less than fifty feet from the centerline of any public roadway;

• (4) Minimum Side Yard Required. None, except that it shall be twenty-five feet when adjacent to R zones; this twenty-five-foot minimum shall be increased one foot for every foot over thirty-five feet of building height;

• (5) Minimum Rear Yard Required. Ten feet, except that it shall be twenty-five feet when adjacent to R zones; this twenty-five-foot minimum shall be increased one foot for every foot over thirty-five feet of building height, and except that buildings shall not be less than fifty feet from the centerline of any public roadway;

• (6) Maximum Building Height Allowed. Seventy-five feet, except that buildings, structures, or edifices over this height may be allowed by use permit.

• (Ord. 467 § 56, 1984)

Special provisions in an M-2 district shall be as follows:

• (1) All development shall be subject to design review according to the provisions of this title.

• (2) Buildings accessory to the permitted use are allowed, provided they meet the provisions of the development standards and area requirements of this part.

• (3) Off-street parking required shall be one space for every three employees on the largest shift or one parking space for every two thousand square feet of gross floor space, whichever is greater. Minimum parking space size shall be nine feet by eighteen feet.

• (4) Any off-street parking areas provided in a required front or side yard setback shall be separated from streets and adjacent property by a five-foot-minimum landscaped strip, except when required yards abut, adjoin, or directly face R zones, in which case these required yards shall totally contain a landscaped buffer zone, which shall be designed to buffer and screen the residential uses from the industrial use. For uncovered parking areas with sixteen or more spaces, the minimum landscaping required shall be one tree, within the parking area, of a species suited to the area climate zone for every eight parking spaces to provide shade and visual diversity.

• (5) Off-street loading zones required shall be one space for each five thousand square feet apart when on the same side of a public road and five hundred feet apart when on opposite sides of a public road.

• (Ord. 467 § 56, 1984; Ord. 467-AC § 20, 2003)