1500-03-100 - Industrial Use Types

A.

Equipment and Materials Storage Yards. Includes the outdoor storage of construction equipment or machinery, company vehicles and fleets, or large quantities of other materials for use off-site. May include office and limited facilities for maintenance of equipment owned and operated by the business owner. Typical uses include contractor's storage yards, as well as yards and facilities for appliance service, building maintenance, janitorial, heating and air conditioning, landscaping, moving and storage, painting, pest control, plumbing, roofing, septic tank service, tree removal, and similar uses.

B.

General Truck Yards. Includes freight terminals and yards for goods transported by truck or truck/trailer storage yards. Allows for maintenance, storage, repair and servicing of transport vehicles when

maintenance occurs within a building. Does not include "Agricultural Truck Yards" (1500-03-040(G)). General truck yards shall be classified into one of the following categories:

1.

Small. Includes General Truck Yards accommodating five (5) or fewer trucks and/or trailer combinations.

2.

Large. Includes General Truck Yards accommodating six (6) or more trucks and/or trailer combinations.

C.

Impound and Towing Yards. Includes the storage of inoperable vehicles for limited periods of time, within a secured enclosure. Does not include "Wrecking, Junk, Dismantling, Recycling, Pick-and-Pull, and Salvage" (Manufacturing, Heavy 1500-03-100(D)(3)).

D.

Manufacturing. Includes manufacturing, assembly, processing, or salvage of goods from finished products or raw materials. Shall be classified into one of the following categories:

1.

Light. Includes the manufacturing and assembly of finished products or parts, primarily taking place indoors using previously prepared materials, where such uses produce minimal impacts to surrounding land uses. Typical uses include clothing and fabric product manufacturing; commercial kitchens and bakeries; commercial laundry, dry-cleaning plants, and carpet cleaning plants; electronics, software, equipment, and appliance manufacturing; food and beverage packaging and services; ice making and food storage; indoor bulk product storage; manufacturing and assembling of small products primarily by hand, including jewelry, pottery and other ceramics; manufacturing and repair of small mechanical components and hardware; meat and fish cutting and packing provided no slaughtering; printing, publishing and lithography; photo processing labs; and similar uses. Accessory retail sales areas of products produced onsite are allowed. Does not include businesses primarily engaged in the sale of consumer products produced off-site.

2.

General. Includes indoor or outdoor manufacturing, assembly or processing where the intensity or scale of operations is greater than those classified under "Manufacturing, Light", but where impacts on surrounding land uses can typically be mitigated to acceptable levels. Typical uses include cutting, shaping, and finishing of marble, granite, slate, and other stone; indoor recycling collection, sorting, storage and processing; metal products fabrication, including machine, sheet metal and welding shops; production of clay and pottery products; production of glass products from manufactured glass; tire recapping; woodworking, cabinet making and furniture manufacturing; and similar uses.

3.

Heavy. Includes indoor or outdoor manufacturing, assembly or processing operations that necessitates the handling or storage of large volumes of hazardous, explosive or unsightly materials, or which produce dust, smoke, fumes, odors, light, noise, or vibrations at levels that would affect surrounding uses. Typical uses include automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing; cement or asphalt batch plants; composting and bio-mass facilities; gravel crushing and processing; hazardous material processing and disposal; manufacturing of chemical products and fertilizers; medical waste processing/incineration; paint removal and sandblasting; paving and roofing materials manufacturing; petroleum, natural gas, propane and other fuel refining and bulk storage or distribution; plastics, other synthetics, and rubber product manufacturing; primary metal industries including the smelting and refining of ferrous and nonferrous metals from ore, pig, or scrap; pulp and pulp product manufacturing, including paper mills; sawmills and planing mills; wrecking, junk, dismantling, recycling, pick-and-pull, and salvage yards; and similar uses.

E.

Research and Development. Includes facilities for scientific research, design, development, and testing of chemical, biotechnology, electrical, electronic, magnetic, medical, optical, and pharmaceutical components in advance of product manufacturing. May include assembly of related products from parts produced offsite where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development. Typical uses include electronics research firms, pharmaceutical research laboratories, soils and materials testing laboratories, and similar uses.

F.

Warehousing, Wholesaling, and Distribution. Includes establishments used primarily for the storage, selling or distribution of goods to retailers, contractors, commercial purchasers, or to retail outlets of the same firm. Wholesalers are primarily engaged in business-to-business sales, but may sell to individual consumers through mail or internet orders.

(Ord. of 6-28-2022)

1500-03-110 - Transportation, Communication, and Utilities Use Types

A.

Aerial Services. Includes aerial services provided to agricultural operations or other businesses. Shall be classified into one of the following categories:

1.

Airports and Landing Strips. Includes facilities for the takeoff, landing and storage of small planes including those providing services to agricultural uses, such as aerial spraying and crop dusting.

2.

Heliports. Includes facilities providing for the takeoff and landing of helicopters serving agricultural, business, and commercial uses, or for life safety. Typical uses include business specific helipads, hospital helipads, and helicopter charter heliports.

B.

Community Facilities and Services. Includes public services, utilities and other facilities involving major structures or land areas required to support the community. Does not include uses defined under "Wireless Telecommunication Facilities" (1500-03-110(F)). Shall be classified into one of the following categories:

1.

Major. Includes public facilities generally determined to be compatible with surrounding uses. Typical uses include ambulance services, court houses, electric substations, governmental office centers, human or pet cemeteries, sheriff and fire stations, post offices, public libraries, regional power transmission lines, roads, sewer pump stations, water storage tanks/towers and reservoirs, transformers, and similar uses.

2.

Intensive. Includes public facilities that may have an objectionable effect on the surrounding uses due to dust, smoke, fumes, odors, light, noise, vibrations, storage of hazardous materials, or aesthetics. Typical uses include correctional institutions, corporation yards, electric receiving stations, fairgrounds, major flood control improvements, natural gas storage and pumping stations, power generating facilities, refuse transfer facilities, regional detention/retention basins, sanitary landfills, training facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants, and similar uses.

C.

Intermodal Transportation Services. Includes facilities primarily engaged in the transportation of persons. Typical uses include depots, dispatch centers, stations, yards, and other facilities for bus, train, taxi and/or other transportation modes.

D.

Parking Facilities. Includes publicly or privately owned and operated parking lots, garages, park-and-ride facilities, and similar uses.

E.

Solar Energy Facilities, Commercial. Includes photovoltaic panels and other facilities used for the conversion of solar energy for the commercial sale of electricity. Does not include accessory systems that are primarily to supply energy to an on-site residential, agricultural, industrial or other permitted use.

F.

Wireless Telecommunications Facilities. Includes electromagnetic and photoelectric transmission, broadcast, repeater, and receiving stations for radio, television, telephone, cellular telephones, microwave communications, data network communications, and satellite based communications, such as antennas, dishes, towers, and monopoles. Does not include accessory home television and radio receiving equipment, satellite dishes, HAM radio antennas, or any wireless communication facility operated exclusively as part of a public safety network or specifically exempt from local regulation by state or federal law. Shall be classified into one of the following categories:

1.

Co-located. Includes the placement or installation of any wireless telecommunications facility on, or immediately adjacent to, an existing legally established wireless telecommunication facility.

2.

Integrated. Includes any wireless telecommunications facility directly affixed to a primary building, provided that all components of the facility are designed in a manner to be architecturally consistent with the building and meet all other Zoning Code requirements.

3.

Freestanding. Includes any freestanding wireless telecommunication facility including associated equipment buildings.

(Ord. of 6-28-2022)