The E heavy commercial-limited manufacturing district is intended to accommodate heavy commercial and certain light manufacturing uses which are generally incompatible with uses appropriate in retail business districts but which do not warrant an exclusive industrial classification.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   The following principal uses are permitted outright in an E heavy commercial-light manufacturing district.

   (a)   D-5 and D-6 uses. Any principal use permitted outright and any principal conditional use as regulated in the D-5 and D-6 district, except as hereinafter modified.

   (b)   Manufacturing uses. The processing, manufacturing, assembling and distribution such as the following.

      (1)   Food products. Bakery goods, candy, light meat packing, sausage making, canning, milk products, coffee roasting and the like; excluding fish products, slaughterhouses, sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast, manufacturing and rendering and refining of fats or oils, and except such as are first permitted or are prohibited in the F district; provided, that no building used as a bakery or other use customarily involving night operation shall have any opening other than stationary windows or a required fire exit within 50 feet of any residence district; and provided, that no space used for loading or unloading commercial vehicles in connection with the operation shall be within 50 feet of any residence district.

      (2)   Pharmaceuticals. General pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and toiletries.

      (3)   Products from the following previously prepared materials. Bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, sheet metal, except where presses over 20 tons rated capacity are employed, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood and yarns.

      (4)   Pottery and figurines. Using previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only with gas or electricity.

      (5)   Novelties. Including musical instruments, toys, rubber or metal stamps and other small rubber products.

      (6)   Appliances. Electrical and electronic appliances, instruments and devices, television sets, radios, phonographs, electric and neon signs, and the like.

      (7)   Light sheet metal products. Including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.

   (c)   Miscellaneous uses. Provided no part of a building occupied by such uses shall have any opening other than stationary windows or required fire exits within 50 feet of any residence district.

      (1)   Welding shops or other metal working or machine shop. Excluding, within 200 feet of any residence district, punch presses over 20 tons rated capacity, drop hammers and other excessive noise-generating machine-operated tools.

      (2)   Foundry. Casting lightweight nonferrous metals, or electric foundry not causing noxious fumes or odors.

      (3)   Rag cleaning. Bag, carpet and rag cleaning; provided, that necessary equipment is installed and operated for the effective recovery of dust.

      (4)   Ice manufacturing. Any cold storage plants.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   When authorized by the Board of Appeals, the following shall be principal conditional uses in a E heavy commercial-limited manufacturing district:

   (a)   Freight terminals. Truck terminals, minor railroad freight stations and depots; provided, that the premises is at least 200 feet from any residence district and subject to approval by the Traffic Engineer.

   (b)   Bulk stations. Provided all storage tanks shall be located under ground.

   (c)   Building materials sales yards. Including concrete mixing, lumber yards, planing mills, open yards for storage and sale of feed or fuel, or both, when located not less than 200 feet from any residence district.

   (d)   Airports. Provided all of the Federal and State aeronautical regulations are complied with. Uses of airport land shall be limited to the uses permitted in the E district, and, in addition, those commercial and industrial uses incidental and related to airport operations.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   Any use, building or structure customarily incidental to any principal use permitted outright in a E heavy commercial-light manufacturing district shall be an accessory use permitted outright.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   Any use, building or structure customarily incidental to any principal conditional use in a E heavy commercial-light manufacturing district shall be conditional accessory use.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   (a)   Dwellings and residences of any kind, including motels and trailers parks, also schools, hospitals and clinics and other institutions for human care, except where they are incidental to a permitted principal use shall be prohibited in an E heavy commercial-light manufacturing district; provided, that any of the aforesaid uses legally existing in the E district on April 26, 1968, or at the time of the adoption of any amendment to this chapter shall not be classified as a nonconforming use.

   (b)   Any use which is first permitted in the F district shall also be prohibited.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968; Ord. 2845, passed 7-26-1982)

   All uses authorized in this article shall be subject to the following conditions.

   (a)   Enclosures. Any business, service, repair, processing, storage or display, whether principal or accessory, if not conducted wholly within an enclosed building shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence at least six feet high or a chain link fence at least six feet high with a six-foot planting buffer maintained in a healthy condition where use abuts, adjoins or faces, either directly or across a street, alley or other public open space, any residence district.

   (b)   Use to be nonobjectionable. Processes and equipment and goods sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, radiation, refuse matter and water-carried waste.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)