The regulations set forth in this section and contained in section shall apply in the M-2 Heavy Industrial District. The intent of the M-2 District is to provide areas for heavy industry, which, because of its location, transportation requirements, and demands on public services, exerts a pronounced impact on the City.

   1.   Principal Permitted Uses.

      A.   A building or premises may be used for any purpose whatsoever except those listed in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) below:

         (1)   No occupancy permit shall be issued for any use in conflict with any ordinance of City or law of the State regulating nuisances.

         (2)   No occupancy permit shall be issued for any dwelling, school, hospital, clinic, or other institution for human care, except where incidental to a permitted principal use.

         (3)   No occupancy permit shall be issued for any of the following uses until and unless the location of such use shall have been authorized by the City Council after report by the Fire Department.

      B.   The following uses:

         Slaughter houses or stock yards, storage and sale of livestock.

         Acid manufacture or wholesale storage of acids.

         Automobile, tractor, or machinery wrecking and used parts yards.

         Cement, lime gypsum, or plaster of Paris manufacture, concrete mixing, concrete products manufacture.

         Distillation of bones.

         Explosive manufacture or storage.

         Fertilizer manufacture.

         Garbage, offal or dead animal reduction or dumping.

         Gas manufacture and cylinder recharging.

         Glue, size or gelatine manufacture.

         Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of fish and meat products, cereals, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, stock feed, flour, and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.

         Petroleum or its products, refining or wholesale storage of.

         Rubber goods manufacture.

         Sand or gravel pits.

         Smelting of tin, copper, zinc, or iron ores.

         Transmitting stations.

         Waste paper yard.

         Wholesale storage of gasoline.

   2.   Required Conditions.

      A.   The best practical means known for the disposal of refuse matter or water-carried waste, the abatement of obnoxious or offensive odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, or similar nuisance, shall be employed.

      B.   All principal buildings and all accessory buildings or structures, including loading facilities, shall be located at least 200 feet from any R District and not less than 100 feet from any other district except an M-1 District.

   3.   Height Regulations. No structure shall exceed in height the distance measured to the centerline of the nearest street from any portion of the proposed building or structure, except as provided in Section 170.25 of this chapter.

   4.   Yard Requirements. The following minimum requirements shall be observed subject to the modified requirements contained in Section 170.25.