Lewistown City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VIII
M Manufacturing and Industrial Districts
§ 240-42 Applicability of regulations.
§ 240-43 Buildings or uses.
A.
Single principal buildings or single principal uses. A lot may be used for only one of the following principal buildings or principal uses and no other:
(1)
A principal building or a principal use permitted in a C Commercial District under § 240-29A(1) through (12).
B.
Multiple principal uses. Subject to the use standards in Subsection C of this section, a lot may be used and a building on a lot may be used:
(1)
For one or more of the principal uses permitted in a C Commercial District under § 240-29B, without distinction among the classes of uses or among the uses within a class, without limitation on the number of individuals engaged in work, and without limitation on the times of day when work may be done.
(2)
For one or more of the principal uses permitted in a C Commercial District under § 240-29A(13), without distinction among the classes of uses or among the uses within a class and without limitation on the times of day when work may be done.
(3)
For one or more of the following principal uses, without distinction among the classes of uses or among the uses within a class:
(a)
Service echelon establishments: storage buildings, warehouses, or storage yards for the storage of any goods, products or items not prohibited by Subsection D of this section.
(b)
Freight transportation services: freight exchanges or terminals; freight warehouses or freight yards; freight classification or marshaling yards.
(c)
Retail or wholesale jobbing or distributing establishments.
(d)
Lumberyards or building supply houses which primarily sell at retail or wholesale such items as lumber, brick, cement, concrete or the like, or such items as building, plumbing or electrical equipment, materials, supplies and the like.
(e)
Farm supply or equipment houses which primarily sell at retail or wholesale farm equipment, fertilizers, farm supplies or the like.
(f)
Establishments for the manufacture, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of such products as alcohol, candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products, but not the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
(g)
Establishments for the processing or prefabrication of the following materials, or the manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following materials: aluminum, asphalt, bone, cellophane, canvas, clay, coal, cloth, concrete or cement, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, leather, linoleum, paint, paper, plastics, petroleum, polyester, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, iron or steel, rubber, tar, tin, tobacco, and wood.
(h)
Iron or steel foundry, foundry casting, rolling mill.
(i)
Establishments for the sale, storage, sorting and processing of junk, waste or discarded or salvaged materials, machinery or equipment, and including automobile wrecking or dismantling establishments.
(j)
Planing mill or saw mill.
(k)
Any other use which is substantially similar to a use described above in this § 240-43B(3).
C.
Use standards. In all cases under Subsection B above, any resulting dust, fumes, odors, noise, vibration, smoke or vapor from the use shall be reasonably confined to the premises and effectively confined to the zoning district.
D.
Accessory buildings and accessory uses. The accessory buildings and accessory uses permitted on a lot shall be those customarily incidental to the principal building or the principal use.
E.
Prohibited uses. No building and no lot may be used for any of the following types of establishments or uses:
(1)
Acetylene gas manufacture or bulk storage.
(2)
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture or bulk storage.
(3)
Sodium compounds manufacture or bulk storage.
(4)
Ammunition, dynamite, gunpowder or fireworks manufacture or bulk storage.
(5)
Livestock market, slaughterhouse, stockyard or rendering works.
(6)
Hydrocarbon refinery.
(7)
Subsurface mining or strip mining.
(8)
Refuse material collection, storage or landfill site, or refuse material reduction, treatment or incineration plant or site — except as the same may be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources or other like state or federal regulatory agency.
§ 240-44 Lot area for principal buildings or principal uses.
§ 240-45 Building height.
The height of a principal building or an accessory building shall not exceed 65 feet.
§ 240-46 Building area.
A.
The building area on a lot in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District which is used for a building or use referred to in § 240-29A(1) through (12), or for a mixed occupancy dwelling under § 240-29C, shall not exceed 70% of the lot area. In the case of a mixed occupancy dwelling, the building area shall be measured as set forth in § 240-32A. Exception. Provided that the regulations in § 240-48 are met, the building area on a lot in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District which is used for a principal building referred to in the exception to § 240-32A may exceed 70% of the lot area if condition (a) or (b) under Subsection A(1) in that exception is met.
§ 240-47 Front, side and rear yards for principal buildings.
A.
Front yard. The front yard depth established for the principal buildings and principal uses set forth in § 240-33A is established as the front yard depth for the same buildings and uses in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District. No front yard shall be required in the case of any other principal building or principal use.
B.
Side yards and rear yard: None required.
§ 240-48 Off-street parking.
[Amended 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2]
A.
Spaces required. Off-street parking spaces for passenger and commercial motor vehicles shall be provided in the following amounts for the following principal buildings and principal uses:
(2)
For all other principal buildings or principal uses, off-street parking spaces shall be provided at the rate of one passenger vehicle parking space for each two employees (based upon the maximum number of employees employed during any one six- to eight-hour period or shift during a calendar year); and two parking spaces for each passenger or commercial motor vehicle used in connection with the business, establishment, industry or use.
B.
Mixed uses. In the case of mixed uses (as for example, a mixed occupancy dwelling), the off-street parking spaces required by § 240-48A shall be the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses, computed separately in accordance with § 240-48A. Off-street parking spaces for one use shall not be considered as providing the required off-street parking for any other use.
C.
Location of off-street parking spaces.
(1)
Except as provided in § 240-48D, the off-street parking spaces required by § 240-48A may be provided at any one of the following locations:
(a)
On the same lot with the principal building or principal use and may be provided by a private garage or other like accessory building on the lot.
(b)
With respect to passenger motor vehicles only, on a private parking lot in a C Commercial District or in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District and owned by the owner or operator of the principal building or use (or on a private parking lot in a C Commercial District or in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District and leased by such owner or operator for a period of not less than 10 years) and a substantial portion of which private parking lot is within 800 feet (by the most direct walking route) of the lot line of the lot containing the principal building or the principal use.
(c)
With respect to commercial vehicles used in connection with a use referred to in § 240-43B, on a private parking lot in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District and owned by the owner or operator of the principal building or use (or on a private parking lot in an M Manufacturing and Industrial District and leased by such owner or operator for a period of not less than 10 years) and a substantial portion of which private parking lot is within 800 feet (by the most direct walking route) of the lot line of the lot containing the principal building or the principal use.
(d)
With respect to passenger motor vehicles only, on a free municipal parking lot, a substantial portion of which is within 800 feet (by the most direct walking route) of the lot line of the lot containing the principal building or the principal use.
(e)
In the case of a single-family house, two-family house, boardinghouse or rooming house, row house, apartment house, conversion apartment house, multifamily house (or in the case of a mixed occupancy dwelling which resembles one of the foregoing), at a community garage, a substantial portion of which is within 800 feet (by the most direct walking route) of the lot line of the lot containing the principal building or the principal use.
D.
Exception. In the case of a transportation service referred to in § 240-43B(3)(b), the off-street parking spaces required by § 240-48A(2) for passenger and commercial motor vehicles used in connection with the establishment or use shall be provided on the same lot with the principal building or principal use.
§ 240-49 Off-street loading.
A.
Spaces required. Off-street loading and unloading spaces shall be provided in the following amounts for the following principal buildings or principal uses:
(1)
For a principal building or principal use referred to in § 240-43B(2) or (3), off-street loading and unloading spaces shall be provided at the rate of one space for each 4,000 square feet of floor area of principal buildings and accessory buildings devoted to the use, including areas used for storage (but excluding areas used for offices, office displays, convenience facilities for employees and the like).
B.
Location of off-street loading spaces. The off-street loading and unloading spaces required by Subsection A of this section shall be provided on the same lot with the principal building or principal use. The location on the lot of an off-street loading space and the design of an off-street loading space shall be governed by the regulations in §§ 240-51, 240-53 and 240-54.
C.
Posting. Each off-street loading space shall be posted with the sign "Loading Area." A loading space shall not be used for off-street parking or storage.