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Beachwood City Zoning Code

§ 17-23.10

Light Industrial Zone.

[Ord. #1/6/78, A XXI]
The Light Industrial Zone is created to achieve the following specific goals:
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for attractive, modern, landscaped, industrial complexes which do not create any hazards or create noise, vibrations, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, and other objectionable influences such as combustibility which would be offensive to adjoining lands that require an environment free from these influences.
To provide protection for non-industrial zones or uses bordering the Light Industrial Zone or in close proximity thereto.
a. 
Permitted principal uses.
1. 
Business, professional and governmental offices.
2. 
Research, experimental and testing laboratories.
3. 
Wholesale offices and showrooms with accessory storage of goods.
4. 
Screened storage and warehousing.
5. 
Light Industrial manufacturing such as, but not limited to, the following process and products:
(a) 
Food products manufacturing.
(b) 
Textile mill products.
(c) 
Apparel and finished products from fabrics and materials.
(d) 
Lumber and wood products manufacturing.
(e) 
Paper products manufacturing.
(f) 
Fabricated metal products.
(g) 
Printing and publishing industries.
(h) 
Stone and clay products manufacturing, except cement, gypsum, etc.
(i) 
Electronic, technologic, and scientific fabrication.
b. 
Permitted accessory uses.
1. 
Off-street parking, loading and ramp area.
2. 
The enclosed warehousing and storage of goods and products.
3. 
Garage space necessary to store any vehicles on the premises.
c. 
Conditional uses.
1. 
Permitted upon application to and approval of the Planning Board.
(a) 
Filling stations.
d. 
Bulk regulations.
1. 
As specified in the Bulk Schedule attached to and made part of this chapter for M-1 Zone.
Editor's Note: The Bulk schedule for all zones is included as an attachment to this chapter. For the bulk schedule for the Pinelands Area, see Section 17-27.
e. 
Permitted signs.[1]
1. 
All signs in the M-1 Light Industrial Zone must conform to Chapter 13, Signs.
[1]
Editor's Note: Sign regulations also included in subsection 17-21.3 (paragraph s)
f. 
Parking and other provisions and requirements.
1. 
Off-street parking space with appropriate access thereto shall be provided on the same lot as it is intended to serve as follows:
(a) 
Three (3) spaces for every one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area of the establishment, or one (1) space for each two (2) employees, whichever is greater.
(b) 
Not more than two (2), two-way driveways, as means of ingress and egress for parking areas, shall be permitted for each four hundred (400) feet of frontage on a public street, nor shall any such driveway be located within two hundred (200') feet of the intersection of two (2) public streets.
(c) 
Truck loading and unloading areas shall be provided to permit the transfer of goods and products in other than a public street, off-street parking area, or required front yard area, at the rate of one (1) space for each fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of gross floor area.
(d) 
All uses permitted in this zone shall set aside twenty (20%) percent of the lot to be devoted to seeding, planting, retention of tree cover, or other landscaping; this area shall be used for no other purpose, other than a buffer area, as stipulated in this chapter.
(e) 
All activities and process shall take place within an enclosed building; incidental storage out of doors shall be shielded from view from public streets, and adjacent off-street parking areas by fencing, landscaping or other appropriate measures.
(f) 
Off-street parking areas for visitors and/or employees shall be designed to provide for a convenient flow of circulation.
(g) 
None of the above required off-street parking or off-street unloading spaces may be applied to more than one (1) requirement, nor may any site serve more than one (1) function.
(h) 
A buffer area shall be established which shall conform to the buffer requirements of subsection 17-21.2 of this chapter. Within the buffer area, no use, activity or sign shall be established other than driveways and directional signals.
g. 
Prohibited uses.
1. 
Residences of any type, however, a nonconforming building may not be altered, enlarged, or extended but may be repaired or maintained to a degree subject to the determination of the Construction Code Official except that a building which is residential in use but is a nonconforming use because it is located in other than a residential zone may be altered, enlarged or extended without the necessity of acquiring a variance provided it meets all other provisions of this chapter and does not enlarge the number of dwelling units, and shall not violate the average prevailing setback line.
2. 
Retail business of any type, except as otherwise specified.
3. 
Heavy industries or any other use that creates substantial amounts of offensive noise, vibrations, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, or other objectionable influences and creates danger to safety in the surrounding areas.
4. 
Religious institutions and schools, charitable and philanthropic institutions.
5. 
Refining, processing, distribution, transmission and storage of any gasoline, crude oil, or the manufacture of bottled fuel gas, or any of the principal products or of the petro-chemical industry.
6. 
Billboards and painted exterior wall signs.
7. 
No use which may be toxic, lethal, hazardous, dangerous or injurious to the general health, safety and welfare of the general public shall be permitted in the M-1 Zone.
8. 
Tanks specifically prohibited.
9. 
All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16,[2] but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service.
[Added 5-5-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-06]
[2]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq.