Beaver City Zoning Code

The purpose of this District is to provide space for warehousing, light manufacturing, fabrication, wholesaling, service and other similar commercial establishments which are combined with manufacturing or warehousing uses and to locate these establishments in a location compatible with one another and where they are convenient to the commercial areas in the City.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994; amd. 2000 Code

Accessory uses and building customarily incidental to the permitted uses.

Automobile Sales And Service:

1. Service station.
2. Automatic car wash.
3. Recreation vehicle sales, lease, rental or repair.
4. Automobile repair garage.
5. Body and fender shop.

Manufacturing/Maintenance Of The Following:

1. Business machines.
2. Cameras and photographic equipment.
3. Musical instruments.
4. Novelties.
5. Rubber and metal stamps.

Processing And Manufacturing:

1. Bakery goods, production and distribution.
2. Bookbinding; publishing.
3. Agricultural goods, production and distribution.
4. Machine shop.
5. Monument works.
6. Pharmaceutical.
7. Upholstering.

Sales And Related Services:

1. Building material sales, yard with sale of rock, gravel, etc., excluding the mixing of cement.
2. Coal, fuel sales office.
3. Greenhouse, nursery, soil, lawn service.
4. Lumber yard.
5. Feed and seed store.
6. Wholesale business.

Service Activities:

1. Bank.
2. Blueprinting, photostating and duplicating.
3. Carpet or rug cleaning.
4. Cloths cleaning, drying, pressing.
5. Dress making.
6. Electric appliance and/or electronic instrument service.
7. Employment agency.
8. Repair shop.
9. Janitorial service.
10. Office, business or professional.
11. Pest extermination office.
12. Printing, including engraving.
13. Sign painting shop.

Sexually-oriented businesses.

Other uses similar to the above and judged by the Planning Commission to be in harmony with the character and intent of this Zone.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994; amd. 2000 Code

Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to the conditional uses.

Automobile parking lot not incidental to a use conducted on the premises.

Processing And Manufacturing:

1. Fertilizer and soil conditioner manufacture, processing and/or sales, providing only nonanimal products and by-products are used.
2. Foundry, casting lightweight nonferrous metal.
3. Incinerator, nonaccessory.
4.  Laboratories.
5. Planing mill.
6. Sandblasting.
7. Manufacture, curing, compounding, processing, packaging and treatment of the following:

Bakery goods, batteries.

Candy, cosmetics.

Dairy products.

Food products (excluding fish, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar, yeast, and rendering of fat).

Meat products.

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling and treatment of merchandise from the following previously-prepared materials:

1. Bone.
2. Cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork.
3. Feathers.
4. Hair, horn.
5. Leather.
6. Paper, paint plastics, precious or semi-precious stones or metals.
7. Rubber.
8. Shell, straw.
9. Textiles, tobacco.
10. Wood, wool.
11. Yarn.
12. Manufacture of brick, clay, ceramic, cinder, concrete, synthetic, cast stone, plastic and pumice stone products, including, in addition, manufacture or fabrication of building blocks, tile or pipe from raw materials for use in building construction or for sewer or drainage purposes, and excluding rock or gravel crushing of raw material except that which is incidental to the manufacture or fabrication of the above described products; and provided, that such crushing facilities be located not closer than two hundred feet (200') to any property line.

Sales And Related Services:

1.  Cafe, cafeteria, catering establishment.
2. Drive-ins, refreshment stand, eating and/or drinking place.
3. Radio and television station.

Service Activities:

1. Animal hospital.
2. Kennel, conducted entirely within a sound-proof and air- conditioned building.
3. Medical/dental clinic, laboratories.
4. Pest extermination business.
5. Veterinary business.

Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, including living quarters for a guard or night watchman, which must be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work.

Other uses similar to the above and judged by the Planning Commission to be in harmony within the character and intent of this Zone.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994; amd. 2000 Code

Buildings and structures shall have a height not greater than thirty five feet (35') without a conditional use permit. Within one hundred feet (100') of the boundary of any adjoining zone, no building shall exceed a height limit established for main buildings in such adjoining zones.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994

None, except for any parcel in the M-D District having a lot line in common with a lot in an adjoining zone or lying across the street or alley from such adjoining zone, the front, side and rear yards as prescribed for such adjoining zone shall be maintained in the M-D District.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994

1. Processing Within Enclosed Building: All processing and assembly of goods shall be conducted completely within a building that is enclosed on all four (4) sides, unless otherwise specified by conditional use permit.
2. Building Location: All buildings which house the processing and/or assembly of goods shall be located not less than one hundred feet (100') from any residential zone boundary.
3. Outdoor Storage: Outdoor storage of materials or semi-finished or finished goods shall be located not less than one hundred feet (100') from any residential zone boundary. All storage areas shall be enclosed by a solid six foot (6') fence or wall in a manner that such materials shall not be visible from any point beyond the boundaries of the property.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994; amd. 2000 Code

All signs shall conform with the City Sign Ordinance, Title 10 of this Code, and/or the Utah Department of Transportation regulations, whichever is greater.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994

All uses in the M-D Zone shall conform to the following standards in order to protect residents from hazards and nuisances which can be controlled:

1. Odorous Gas Emissions: No emission of odorous gases or other matter shall be permitted in such quantities as to be readily detectable when diluted in the ratio of one volume of odorous air to four (4) of clean air at a point measured at five hundred feet (500') from the establishment or use, or at the boundaries of the District if closer, or at point of greatest concentration. Any process involving creation or emission of any odors shall be provided with a secondary safeguard system, so control will be maintained if primary safeguard system should fail.
2. Safety Devices For Fire, Explosion: All activities involving the storage of flammable and explosive materials, shall be provided at any point with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion.
3. Radioactivity: No activities shall be permitted which emit dangerous radioactivity at any point, or electrical disturbance adversely affecting the operation of any equipment other than that of the creator of such disturbance.
4. Smoke And Gas Emissions: No emission shall be permitted for any chimney, or other source, of smoke or gases except in accordance with air pollution provisions of the Utah Department of Health.
5. Ash, Dust, Vapors: No emission of ash, dust, fumes, vapors, gases or other forms of air pollution shall be permitted except in accordance with air pollution provisions of the Utah Department of Health.
6. Discharges: No discharge of liquid or solid wastes at any point into public sewer, private sewage system or stream, or into the ground, shall be permitted, except in accordance with the standards approved by the Utah Department of Health or standards equivalent to those approved by such Department. No materials or wastes shall be deposited on any property in such form or manner that they may be transferred off the property by natural causes or forces, and wastes which might be attractive to rodents or insects shall be stored outdoors only in closed containers.

HISTORY:

Ord. 41, 9-27-1994; amd. 2000 Code