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Greensburg City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VIII

M - Industrial District

§ 265-28 Composition of district; purpose.

The M - Industrial District is intended to accommodate the industrial needs of the community and the needs for warehousing and service-type uses which in general do not depend on frequent personal visits of customers. It is intended to provide for diversified light industrial uses of a non-nuisance nature and designed to constitute a harmonious and appropriate part of the physical development of the community, to contribute to the soundness of the economic base of the community and to provide opportunities for local employment. Residential and the more general commercial uses are considered not compatible and are prohibited, as well as any use which would substantially interfere with the development or continuation of the industrial uses and structures in the district.

§ 265-29 Permitted uses.

A. 
In this district, the land and structures may be used, and structures may be erected, altered, enlarged and maintained, for the following uses only, provided that:
(1) 
No explosive materials or processes are involved.
(2) 
No smoke, fumes, odor, dust, noise, vibration or glaring light can be noticed from outside any lot in this district.
(3) 
The use is not offensive by reason of emission of refuse matter or water-carried waste.
B. 
Permitted uses are:
(1) 
Automotive service establishments, including automobile sales; battery manufacture and the like; community garage; community parking area; major garage; major repair; painting; station for sale and service of fuel, lubricating oil and accessories; tire retreading or recapping; and upholstering.
(2) 
Building contractors' establishments, such as decorating; electrical; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; landscaping; masonry; plumbing; roofing; and stone cutting; including fabrication, maintenance, repair, sales and storage of equipment, material and supplies.
(3) 
Cleaning and dyeing establishments, provided that no flammable cleaning fluids are used, and any laundering facilities other than self-service or hand laundry shall be no nearer than 200 feet to property classified as R District.
(4) 
Delivery and distribution facilities, including food commissary, catering and vending machine service establishments; feed and fuel supply; and freighting, trucking and parcel delivery establishments.
(5) 
Laboratories, experimental, film or testing, photo or motion picture, research and the like.
(6) 
Machine shop and machinery sales and display.
(7) 
Manufacturing, fabricating, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone; canvas; cellophane; clay; cloth; cork; feathers; felt; fiber; fur; glass; hair; horn; leather; paint, not employing a boiling process; paper; plastics; precious or semiprecious metals or stones; shell; straw; synthetics; textiles; tobacco; wood, but not including heavy woodworking shop; and yarns.
(8) 
Manufacture, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as beverages; cosmetics; drugs; musical and small precision instruments; novelties; perfumes; perfumed toilet soap; pharmaceuticals; rubber and metal hand stamps; watches and clocks; and food products, not including fish smoking, curing or canning, rendering of fats and oils or the slaughter of animals.
(9) 
Poultry, rabbits and fish: cleaning, dressing and selling, including temporary keeping of live poultry on the premises.
(10) 
Printing; photo reproduction; and lithographing, type composition, ruling and binding establishment.
(11) 
Public utility corporation buildings, structures, facilities and installations (see § 265-51).
(12) 
Repair shop, other than a railroad major repair shop.
(13) 
Signs, as prescribed in Article XVII.
(14) 
Storage, including warehousing, freight terminals, ice and cold storage plant and other storage of merchandise and material, but not including storage of explosives or inflammables, garbage, offal or dead animals.
(15) 
Veterinary establishment and animal hospital.
(16) 
Wholesale merchandise establishment.
(17) 
Conditional uses, as prescribed in Article XVIII, including:
(a) 
Garbage or refuse disposal plant (see § 265-122B).
(b) 
Government use or structure or unit group building thereof (see § 265-122C).
(c) 
Planned unit group development (see § 265-122F).
(18) 
Special exceptions permitted by the Board, as prescribed in Article XIX, including:
(a) 
Change of a nonconforming use within a nonconforming structure to a conforming use or to another nonconforming use that is determined by the Board to be no more detrimental to the neighborhood (see § 265-129).
(b) 
Outdoor air-conditioning condensing unit in a required yard (see § 265-129).
(c) 
Temporary structure or use in connection with an authorized use (see § 265-129).
(19) 
Accessory use or structure customarily incident to any of the main uses permitted, including:
(a) 
Loading space.
(b) 
Minor garage or minor parking area.
(c) 
Screening wall or fence, as regulated under § 265-48.
(d) 
Signs, as prescribed in Article XVII.
(20) 
Student homes.
[Added 7-7-2008 by Ord. No. 1971]
(a) 
No more than one building on a lot may be used as a student home. No more than one dwelling in a two-family dwelling may be used as a student home. Up to 50% of dwelling units or a maximum of four dwelling units per building may be student homes based on availability of off-street parking.
(b) 
All existing and new student homes must be registered annually with Planning and Development. Issuance of registration for student homes shall not exceed one year and shall be based on the period of August 1 to July 31. All student home registrations shall expire on July 31. Student homes must pass a code compliance inspection by the Code Enforcement Department prior to being registered and occupied.
[Amended 9-14-2015 by Ord. No. 2057; 11-9-2020 by Ord. No. 2113]
(c) 
No student home shall be closer than 500 feet to another student home. The distance requirement is measured from the closest property corner of a potential student home utilizing air measurements (GIS) equal to or more than 500 feet. Student homes located in the Downtown District, as shown on the City of Greensburg Downtown District map (Attachment 3 of this chapter)[1] are exempt from the five-hundred-foot distance requirement.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Downtown District Map is included at the end of the chapter.
(d) 
Parking requirements. (See § 265-65, Number of off-street parking spaces required.)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection B(20)(d), as amended, which required an occupancy permit, was repealed 11-9-2020 by Ord. No. 2113. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection B(20)(e) as Subsection B(20)(d).
(21) 
Kennels, pet-based uses and veterinary establishments and animal hospitals.
[Added 7-12-2021 by Ord. No. 2121]

§ 265-30 Height.

The maximum heights of structures in this district shall be as specified in Article XI.

§ 265-31 Area requirements.

Each lot in this district shall comply with the area requirements as specified in Article XII.