Certain classes of districts designated herein by the primary symbol "M" and collectively referred to as industrial or M districts, are established to provide for the various types of manufacturing, warehousing, processing and mineral extraction activities of Elko County. Note: Inasmuch as Elko County is dotted with many old nonworking mine sites any future mineral extraction and/or milling shall require appropriate zoning or a variance if more than          years have elapsed since the mine and/or mill was last operative. Last operative year shall be the last calendar year in which a net "proceeds of mines" report was filed. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975)

The M1 general industrial and extractive district is intended to provide space in suitable locations in Elko County for all types of manufacturing, warehousing, processing, mining, ore reduction and mineral development activities.

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following listed uses are permitted uses within the M1 district:

      1.   Agricultural uses of any kind including animal and fowl raising in a situation where the feeds for such living animal or fowl are not grown by the animal or fowl raiser, but imported to the site from elsewhere.

      2.   Retail and wholesale establishment for the sale or distribution of products manufactured or produced by the industry on the same site.

      3.   Commercial establishments provided as a service to employees of the plant or industry on the same site.

      4.   Dwellings to be limited to lots or parcels on which permitted factories manufacturing plants or industrial uses are located, such dwelling to be used exclusively by the caretaker or superintendent of such enterprise and his family.

      5.   Mining, including milling.

      6.   Oil well drilling.

      7.   Steam electric generating station.

      8.   Railroad yards.

      9.   Airports and landing fields.

      10.   Manufacturing uses, as listed:

         (a)   Food and kindred products:

            (1)   Sugar.

            (2)   Beverage industries.

            (3)   All other types of food and kindred products.

         (b)   Textile mill products:

            (1)   Scouring and combing plants.

            (2)   Carpets, rugs and other floor coverings.

            (3)   Miscellaneous textile goods:

               A. Felt goods.

               B. Processed waste.

               C. Linen goods.

               D. Jute goods.

               E. Cordage and twine.

         (c)   Lumber and wood products:

            (1)   Logging camps and logging contractors.

            (2)   Sawmills and planing mills.

            (3)   Millwork, plywood and prefabricated structural wood products.

            (4)   Miscellaneous wood products.

         (d)   Chemicals and allied products:

            (1)   Drugs and medicines.

         (e)   Products of petroleum and coal:

            (1)   Coke and byproducts.

            (2)   Paving and roofing materials.

            (3)   Miscellaneous petroleum and coal products.

         (f)   Rubber products: All types.

         (g)   Leather and leather products:

            (1)   Industrial leather belting and packing.

            (2)   Boot and shoe cut stock and findings.

         (h)   Stone, clay, and glass products: All types.

         (i)   Primary metal industries: All types.

         (j)   Fabricated metal products: All types.

         (k)   Machinery and electrical machinery: All types.

         (l)   Transportation equipment: All types.

         (m)   Miscellaneous manufacturing industries:

            (1)   Candles.

            (2)   Mortician's goods.

            (3)   Beauty and barber shop equipment.

            (4)   Furs, dressed and dyed. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975)

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following manufacturing and industrial uses shall be permitted if the location and development plan is approved by the planning commission:

      1.   Ammunition.

      2.   Meatpacking and slaughtering.

      3.   Dyeing and finishing textiles.

      4.   Canning and curing of sea foods.

      5.   Pulp goods and miscellaneous converted paper products.

      6.   Pulp, paper and paperboard mills.

      7.   Chemicals and allied products.

      8.   Petroleum refinings.

      9.   Leather - tanned, curried and finished.

      10.   Matches.

      11.   Fireworks and pyrotechnics.

      12.   Rendering or reduction plant.

      13.   Salvage yard.

      14.   Junkyard.

      15.   Open storage of used building, used building materials and used fixtures.

      16.   Blast furnace or coke oven.

      17.   Rocket propellants manufacturing and testing.

      18.   Explosives.

      19.   Permanent asphalt plant.

      20.   Livestock feed and sales yard.

      21.   Stockyards.

      22.   Sandblasting plants.

      23.   Tank farm for petroleum products.

      24.   Cement, lime, gypsum, potash or plaster of paris manufacture.

      25.   Drop forge industries manufacturing forgings with power hammers.

      26.   Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry or fabrication plant, including rolling mill and boiler works.

      27.   Ore reduction, including refining and smelting of metals.

      28.   Outdoor advertising signs.

      29.   Parking lot.

Auto wrecking, salvage yards, junkyards, and open storage of used buildings, used building materials, and used fixtures, must be completely enclosed within a neat, painted, solid six foot (6') fence which shall be constructed in accordance with requirements of the county building official and maintained in good repair and painted at all times. Any of the above uses legally existing at the time this section became effective, shall be deemed to have been approved by the planning commission and nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the enlargement and expansion of existing buildings and facilities for such uses if all other regulations of this chapter are complied with, including the condition of any exception or variance heretofore granted authorizing such use.

All existing yards and open storage noted in the above paragraph shall be required to be fenced. Existing facilities shall have two (2) years from the effective date of this title to meet this requirement. (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975; amd. Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-1982, eff. 10-1-1982; Ord. 2012-12, 1-9-2013, eff. 2-7-2013)

   (C)   Accessory Buildings: Any accessory building customarily incidental to any of the above uses when located on the same lot.

   (D)   Similar Uses M1 District: Any use similar to those listed specifically for the M1 district if the use, location and development plan is approved by the planning commission.

   (E)   Abatement Of Fumes And Odors: Uses in the M1 district shall be planned, developed, conducted and operated so that smoke, fumes, dust, odors, liquids and other waste of any kind is confined and/or purified to control pollution of air, soil or water to meet the standards and requirements of the planning commission and in such manner as to provide no threat to public health and welfare.

   (F)   Parking And Loading: One parking space for each full time employee shall be provided, plus guest parking and loading space as deemed appropriate by the planning commission for the particular use.

   (G)   Yards: The minimum requirements for yards in the M1 district shall be as follows:

 

 

   (H)   Height Limitations: None, except where the M1 district abuts an R or C district, no building, structure, chimney, or other facility within five hundred feet (500') of an R or C district boundary shall exceed thirty five feet (35') and two and one-half (21/2) stories in height.

      1.   Area Of Building Site Requirements: Every lot or building site in an M1 district shall have an area not less than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet, and a width of not less than one hundred feet (100'). (Ord. 1975-A, 3-5-1975, eff. 4-1-1975; amd. Ord. 1982-J, 9-8-1982, eff. 10-1-1982)

Certain areas of the county are or shall be zoned as light industrial to provide suitable locations for various types of clean, light industrial, construction or commercial use of property. These districts shall be designated as LI districts.

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The following primary uses are permitted in a light industrial (LI) district:

      1.   Ambulance service.

      2.   Animal boarding (enclosed).

      3.   Appliance repair.

      4.   Assembly of products and materials.

      5.   Automobile parking lot.

      6.   Bakery.

      7.   Bottling plant.

      8.   Business machine service.

      9.   Cemetery.

      10.   Community clubhouse, social clubs.

      11.   Contractor services.

      12.   Corporate offices.

      13.   Electrician shop.

      14.   Fabricating of products and materials, provided that such fabrication does not result in fumes and/or debris being emitted into the air or any odor-causing agents or toxicants being released into the public sewer system, public water system or under the ground.

      15.   Fire station.

      16.   Freeport storage of goods and/or parts.

      17.   Funeral home and/or mortuary.

      18.   Government administration offices (including equipment and storage).

      19.   Health and sports clubs.

      20.   Individual family residential uses, including mobile homes, provided that such mobile homes qualify and constitute real property as established by chapter 361 of the Nevada Revised Statutes.

      21.   Laboratories (medical, dental, optical, veterinary, chemists).

      22.   Libraries.

      23.   Manufacturing of products and materials provided, however, that such manufacturing does not result in noxious fumes and/or debris being emitted into the air, or any odor-causing agents or toxicants being released into the public sewer system, public water system or under the ground.

      24.   Medical office.

      25.   Medical or dental type clinic.

      26.   Municipal building.

      27.   Museum.

      28.   Parks and playing fields.

      29.   Plumbing shop.

      30.   Post office.

      31.   Professional offices.

      32.   Storage units.

      33.   Trade and industrial schools for skills associated with the uses hereunder.

      34.   Utility companies and buildings, including necessarily related structures, storage yards and related uses, but not power plants.

   (B)   Conditional Uses: The following uses may be allowed within a Light Industrial District only if permitted, and only under the conditions specified by the Planning Commission in a conditional use permit:

      1.   All other commercial and industrial uses which compliment and are of no more objectionable character than the listed permitted Light Industrial uses as determined by the Planning Commission and particularly, commercial services such as banks, gasoline service stations and food and beverage services and businesses designed to serve the district, or residential use as a mobile home park.

   (C)   Accessory Permitted Uses: The accessory permitted uses in the Light Industrial District are:

      1.   Automobile parking.

      2.   Uses incidental to utility companies.

      3.   Accessory Buildings Permitted: Any accessory building customarily incidental to any of the above stated uses and located on the same parcel, and meeting all set-back requirements and Building Code regulations.

   (D)   Screen Walls: When the Light Industrial District abuts a residential district, or the light industrial use will occur within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a residential district, or a lot used for residential purposes, a screen wall not less than six feet (6'), nor more than eight feet (8'), in height above the grade, will be required to be constructed by the nonresidential user as approved by the Planning Commission provided, however, such wall shall extend no closer to a public thoroughfare than the minimum set-back requirement or as required for visibility on the public thoroughfare.

   (E)   Minimum Parcel Size: Ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

   (F)   Minimum Set-back Requirements: Required minimum yard set- backs in the Light Industrial District shall be as follows:

 

 

   (G)   Maximum Building Height: Maximum allowable building height in Light Industrial Districts shall not exceed allowable elevation indications in applicable airport master plans or Federal aviation administration regulations; and where the Light Industrial District abuts on a residential or commercial district, no building or structure within five hundred feet (500') of the residential or commercial district boundary shall exceed thirty five feet (35') in height, nor two and one-half (21/2) stories in height.

   (H)   Property Owner Responsibility: It shall be the duty and responsibility of the property owner to plan and develop his property in such a way that:

      1.   On-street space will not be used to satisfy parking or loading space needs;

      2.   Points of access from the public street will be minimized; and

      3.   Driveway openings will be so located and dimensioned as to minimize the disruption of passing traffic and the creation of traffic hazards.

   (I)   Regulations Pertaining to Traffic: Every use shall conform to the following general standards in addition to the special standards for certain specific uses as set forth in this Chapter.

      1.   Traffic Visibility: No obstructions to visibility at any street intersection including, but not limited to, structures, parked vehicles or vegetation, shall be allowed or permitted to remain in the District between the heights of two and one-half feet (21/2') and eight feet (8') above the ground and within fifteen feet (15') of the intersection of the street right-of-way lines. In the case of an arterial street intersecting another arterial street or a railroad at grade, the vision clearance space shall be increased to twenty five feet (25').

      2.   Driveways: All driveways installed, altered, changed, replaced, or extended after the effective date of this Chapter shall comply with the following requirements:

         (a)   Driveway openings shall not be less than thirty feet (30') and shall not exceed forty feet (40') in width measured at the curb line.

         (b)   Vehicular entrances and exits, public amusement uses, parks, funeral homes, Municipal buildings or similar uses generating very heavy periodic traffic, shall be located not closer than two hundred feet (200') to any pedestrian entrance or exit to a school, college, university, church, hospital, public emergency shelter or other place of public assembly.

      3.   Access:

         (a)   No direct private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed right-of-way of any freeway, interstate highway, expressway or controlled access or arterial street without the express permission of the agency having access control jurisdiction.

         (b)   No direct public or private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed rights-of-way of:

            (1)   Freeways or interstate highways, nor to their interchanges or turning lanes, nor to their intersecting or interchanging streets, within one thousand five hundred feet (1,500') of the most remote end of the taper of the turning lanes.

            (2)   Arterial streets intersecting another arterial street, within forty feet (40') of the intersection of right-of-way lines.

            (3)   Local or collector streets intersecting an arterial street, within twenty five feet (25') of the intersection of right-of-way lines.

         (c)   The driveway of every interior lot fronting on an arterial street shall have a paved turning area allowing vehicles to turn around and head into the arterial street. Under no circumstances shall any parking lot be so arranged as to necessitate backing a vehicle onto an arterial street.

   (J)   Off-Street Parking Regulations: Off-street parking facilities shall be provided in an amount not less than hereinafter specified, for the parking of self-propelled motor vehicles used by occupants, employees, patrons, members and clients of establishments or uses erected or established after the effective date of this Chapter, and of existing establishments or uses which are thereafter extended, enlarged or changed.

 

   (K)   Parking Lot Access:

      1.   Access From an Alley: An alley may not be used for principal access to any parking lot, nor for direct access to parking spaces.

      2.   Access From a Street: No entrance or exit to a parking lot shall be located closer than fifteen feet (15') to any abutting residential district.

      3.   Drainage: Every parking lot shall be:

         (a)   Properly graded to prevent impoundment of surface water.

         (b)   Required Screen Walls: Where the interior side lot line or rear lot line of a parking lot abuts a residential district and is not separated therefrom by an alley, or the parking lot will be within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a lot used for residential purposes, a screen wall not less than six feet (6'), nor more than eight feet (8'), in height above the grade, will be required to be constructed and maintained by the nonresidential user as approved by the Planning Commission prior to construction; provided, however, that such wall shall extend no closer to the street line than the minimum required setback for residential properties in the same block.

   (L)   Plans Required for Off-Street Parking and Loading Spaces: Site plans are required for off-street parking and loading and shall show how the required parking and loading spaces are to be located and arranged on the site. In addition, such plans shall show how drives and parking lots are to be graded and drained as well as the location and design of all screen walls, landscaping and lighting. Such plans must be reviewed and approved by the Planning Commission.

      1.   The owner or occupant of any building or use subject to off- street parking requirements under this Chapter shall not discontinue or reduce any existing required parking lot without first having established other parking space in replacement thereof and having submitted satisfactory evidence to the Planning Commission that such replacement space meets all requirements of this Chapter.

      2.   Off-street parking space required under this Chapter shall not be used for the storage of merchandise, nor for the sale, rent, repair, dismantling, storage or servicing of vehicles or equipment.

      3.   Required off-street parking shall be located within three hundred feet (300') of the building or use it is intended to serve, the distance being measured along the sidewalk from the nearest point of the building or use to the nearest point of the parking lot; provided, however, that parking facilities for a stadium, auditorium, outdoor sports arena, or similar use, may be located not further than one thousand three hundred feet (1,300') from the nearest point of such building or use.

      4.   Whenever the use of a separate lot or parcel is proposed for fulfillment of minimum parking requirements, the owner shall submit as a part of his application, satisfactory assurance that the separate lot or parcel is permanently committed to parking use by deed restriction or other enforceable legal measure.

   (M)   Methods of Providing Required Off-Street Parking: Required off-street parking may be provided by any one, or combination, of the following methods:

      1.   By providing the required parking space on the same lot as the building or use being served.

      2.   By the collective provision of required parking for two (2) or more buildings or uses, whereupon the total of such parking shall be not less than the sum of the requirements for the several buildings or uses computed separately; provided, however, that if two (2) or more such buildings or uses have operating hours which do not overlap, the Planning Commission may grant a reduction of the collective requirement based upon the special circumstances involved. A written agreement for joint use of such facilities shall be executed between the parties concerned and a copy shall be filed with the Building Inspector. (Ord. 1987-G, 9-3-87, eff. 9-21-87)