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Butte City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

28 - M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE

Sections:


17.28.010 - Primary intended use.

The M-1 zone is intended primarily to accommodate a variety of light industrial uses and to provide a greater flexibility within the zoning regulations for those industries which do not create noise, odors, smoke, and other objectionable nuisances to the extent as do the heavier industries restricted to the M-2 zone. The intent is that certain M-l zones or portions thereof identified on the zoning map will be limited to the less intensive uses. Also, conditions and performance standards limiting the conduct of permitted uses are provided with the intent that they shall be required in certain M-l zones or portions thereof (identified by the suffix "L") where necessary to achieve industrial park development compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. To achieve this intent the regulations in this chapter and the supplementary regulations in Chapter 17.38 shall apply in M-l zones.

(Ord. 53 § 130-1, 1978)

17.28.020 - Permitted uses.

A.

Uses permitted in the M-1 zone shall be as follows:

1.

Automobile repair and paint shops;

2.

Air-conditioning service establishments;

3.

Adhesive manufacturing, excluding asphalts and glue manufacturing;

4.

Babbit metal manufacturing;

5.

Boat repair and manufacturing (small craft);

6.

Bolt threading;

7.

Bottling and breweries;

8.

Broom and brush manufacturing;

9.

Bus repair and storage;

10.

Butane and similar gas stations;

11.

Cabinet shops and custom furniture manufacturing;

12.

Candy manufacturing;

13.

Canneries;

14.

Carbon paper and typewriter ribbon manufacturing;

15.

Compartmentalized storage for commercial and residential;

16.

Contractors storage yards;

17.

Convenience stores in conjunction with a service station;

18.

Electrical contractors and neon sign manufacturing;

19.

Electroplating;

20.

Engraving;

21.

Farming equipment and heavy machinery sales establishments;

22.

Feed and seed processing and sales;

23.

Fertilizer sales—wholesale and retail;

24.

Food product manufacturing;

25.

Fumigating establishments;

26.

Furniture manufacturing;

27.

Greenhouses and nurseries;

28.

Hatcheries, poultry and fish, and small farms;

29.

Heliports;

30.

Ice cream manufacturing;

31.

Ink product manufacturing;

32.

Laboratories-research and testing;

33.

Lumberyards, excluding sawmills, salvage yards, handling salvage lumber and building materials, building wrecking yards;

34.

Machine shops;

35.

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, or treating of such products as drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, cosmetics, perfumes, etc., excluding the refining or rendering of fats or oils;

36.

Manufacturing of small mechanical devices;

37.

Monument and stone works, excluding rock crushing and quarrying;

38.

Motels;

39.

Office equipment supplies and services;

40.

Packaging plants;

41.

Paper products manufactured from previously prepared materials;

42.

Plumbing and heating shops;

43.

Printing and publishing;

44.

Rental service storage and yards;

45.

Sand and gravel storage yards;

46.

Sash and door millworks and similar uses;

47.

Sheet metal shops;

48.

Sign manufacturing;

49.

Storage warehouse;

50.

Television and radio broadcasting;

51.

Textile and canvas manufacturing;

52.

Tire recapping;

53.

Truck terminals;

54.

Truck stops;

55.

Welding shops;

56.

Wire and wire products manufacturing;

57.

Wholesale and warehouse establishments;

58.

Uses similar to those mentioned above in this section may be permitted, subject to the approval of the zoning officer;

59.

Veterinary clinics—small and large animals;

60.

Other uses permitted under the supplementary use regulations in Sections 17.38.170 through 17.38.240 and structures ordinarily appurtenant to any of the uses listed above in this section.

61.

Class one and class two kennels as defined in this title, when located not less than one hundred feet from an R zone.

B.

Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as permitting any residential use to be located within an M-1 zone. Existing residential uses shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.48, Nonconforming uses.

(Ord. 602 § 1 (part), 1998; Ord. 456 § 6, 1993; Ord. 53 § 130-2, 1978)

(Ord. No. 11-3, § 4, 5-4-2011)

17.28.030 - Limited M-1L zones.

Whenever an M-l zone identification has the suffix "L" added, uses therein shall also comply with Sections 17.38.010 through 17.38.080.

(Ord. 53 § 130-3, 1978)

17.28.040 - Accessory uses.

Accessory uses shall include any use customarily accessory and incidental to permitted uses.

(Ord. 53 § 130-4, 1978)

17.28.050 - Conditions.

A.

In all M-1 zones, all storage (including storage of waste materials) located on a lot which adjoins a lot in an R or C zone, with or without an intervening street or alley, shall be located wholly within a building or shall be screened from view from the surrounding properties in said R or C zone. In limited zones, uses shall also comply with the conditions in Sections 17.38.010 through 17.38.080.

B.

Use of drop hammers or similar equipment is prohibited within three hundred feet of any R zone.

(Ord. 53 § 130-5, 1978)

17.28.060 - Building height limits.

Building height limits shall be as follows: three stories not to exceed sixty-five feet.

(Ord. 53 § 130-6, 1978)

17.28.070 - Minimum lot area.

There shall be no minimum lot area requirement.

(Ord. 53 § 130-7, 1978)

17.28.080 - Minimum lot width.

There shall be no minimum lot width requirement.

(Ord. 53 § 130-8, 1978)

17.28.090 - Minimum yards.

Uses in all M-1 zones shall provide yards as follows and uses in limited zones shall comply with yard regulations in Sections 17.38.010 through 17.38.080.

A.

Minimum front yard depth, thirty feet;

B.

Minimum side yard width, eight feet;

C.

Minimum rear yard depth, none required except on a lot whose rear property line adjoins a lot in an R zone without an intervening alley. In such cases there shall be a rear yard not less than fifteen feet in depth.

(Ord. 53 § 130-9, 1978)