Lexington City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XII
Manufacturing Districts
§ 300-51 Purpose.
The manufacturing districts set forth herein are established to protect public health, safety, comfort, convenience and the general welfare, and to protect the economic base of the City, as well as the value of real estate, by regulating manufacturing development in appropriate locations. Those general objectives include, among others, the following specific objectives:
A.
To protect established residential areas, and the health of families living therein, by restricting those nearby manufacturing activities that may create offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, fire hazards, and other objectionable influences to those areas that are appropriate therefor.
B.
To provide adequate space in appropriate locations for most types of manufacturing and related activities so that the economic structure of the community may be strengthened, and that employment opportunities may be found in the interest of public prosperity and welfare.
C.
To provide more space for manufacturing activities in locations accessible to rail and highways, so that the movement of raw materials, finished products and employees can be carried on efficiently and with a minimum of danger to public life and property.
D.
To establish proper standards of performance which will restrict obnoxious manufacturing activities, while at the same time encourage and permit the manufacturing activities which have adopted facilities for the processing of finished products without adversely affecting the health, happiness, safety, convenience and welfare of the people living and working in nearby areas.
E.
To protect manufacturing districts from incompatible uses of land by prohibiting the use of such space for new residential development, thereby preserving the land for a more appropriate use in accordance with the plans for City improvement and development.
F.
To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well-considered plan of land use for all of the City, to conserve the use of property, to promote stability of manufacturing activities and related development, and to protect the character and established development in each area of the community, to enhance and stabilize the value of land and to protect the tax base of the City.
§ 300-52 M-1 Light Manufacturing District.
A.
Permitted uses. Since most uses permitted in the M-1 Manufacturing District will be in proximity to residence districts, it is hereby declared that performance standards shall be high, and that all manufacturing, processing or assembly of materials and products must be carried on in a manner not injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission of odors, fumes, gases, dust, smoke, noise, vibrations, or fire hazards. Therefore, the following uses are permitted, provided there is compliance with generally recognized performance standards in relation to residential areas, and provided no building or premises, improved or unimproved, shall be used and no building shall be hereafter built or altered within any M-1 Light Manufacturing District unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following uses:
(1)
Uses permitted in a B-2 District, which are not permitted in the B-1 Business District, except trailers.
(2)
Manufacturing: manufacture or processing of small items, including gloves, footwear, bathing caps, shoes, boots, boxes and cartons, hardware, toys, electric batteries, motors, or generators; textile products manufacture; glass, cement and stone product manufacture; furniture manufacture; food manufacture or processing, including hatcheries, canning, freezing, storage, and bottling.
(3)
Automobile parts, rebuilding, if entirely within an enclosed building.
(4)
Bedspring and mattress manufacture.
(5)
Bicycle manufacture.
(6)
Blacksmith shops.
(7)
Boat building and repair.
(8)
Building equipment, coal, sand and gravel yards, and yards for contracting equipment, maintenance or operating equipment of public agencies or public utilities, or materials or equipment of similar nature.
(9)
Bus line shops and garages.
(10)
Carpet and rug cleaning.
(11)
Carpet manufacturing.
(12)
Carting, express hauling or storage yards.
(13)
Cigarette and cigar manufacture.
(14)
Cleaning and dyeing establishments when employing facilities for handling more than 1,000 pounds per day.
(15)
Coated fabrics, except rubberized.
(16)
Drugs and pharmaceutical products.
(17)
Engraving.
(18)
Feed milling and processing.
(19)
Fuel oil storage and distribution.
(20)
Fur goods, not including tanning or dyeing.
(21)
Garbage pick-up services.
(22)
Grain elevators.
(23)
Heating appliances and sheet metal products, including stoves and ranges.
(24)
Laundries, more than 1,000 pounds' daily capacity.
(25)
Machine shops and metal products manufacture, when not equipped with heavy (exceeding fifty-ton pressure) punch presses, drop forges, riveting and grinding machines or any other equipment that may create noise, vibration, smoke, odors, heat, glare, or fire hazards, exceeding the performance standards made a part of this section.
(26)
Metal polishing and plating.
(27)
Musical instruments.
(28)
Perfumes and cosmetics.
(29)
Public utility electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations.
(30)
Storage warehouses.
(31)
Sporting and athletic equipment.
(32)
Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oil in tanks, each 50,000 gallons or less in capacity, but only after the location and protective measures have been approved by local governing officials.
(33)
Tool and die shops.
(34)
Truck terminals and truck, tractor, trailer or bus storage yards.
(35)
Any other establishment that can be operated in compliance with the requirements of this section without creating objectionable noise, odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes, or vapor and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.
(36)
Commercial car washes.
[Added 4-18-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-1]
B.
Conditional uses. The following conditional uses are permitted, subject to the conditions and requirements of Article VII:
(1)
Airports.
(2)
Amusement centers.
(3)
Auditoriums, stadiums, arenas, armories, gymnasiums.
(4)
Bulk fertilizer sales.
(5)
Commercial extraction of gravel, sand, stone and other raw materials.
(6)
Golf courses.
(7)
Municipal buildings.
(8)
Police stations and fire stations.
(9)
Public parks.
(10)
Public utilities.
(11)
Radio and television towers.
C.
Height: no limit.
D.
Area. The maximum ground area occupied by all buildings shall be not more than 60% of the area of the lot or tract for which a building permit has been issued.
(1)
Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet in which there shall be no structure of any kind, open storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of vehicles.
(2)
Side yard. There shall be a minimum side yard of not less than 15 feet on both sides of the building or buildings, but where the property is adjacent to an R District, there shall be a side yard of not less than 25 feet on the side nearest to residential lots. The parking of private automobiles may be permitted within the side yard areas, but not closer than five feet to any lot zoned for residential use.
(3)
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of five feet except where a lot abuts upon on R District; in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than 25 feet, and no storage of materials or equipment nor the parking of automobiles shall take place within the 10 feet closest to any residential lot or lots.
E.
Performance standard. The use shall not be injurious to health or safety of humans or animals, or injurious to vegetation and shall not be noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of smoke, dust, gas fumes, odors, or vibrations beyond the limits of the premises upon which such industry is conducted.
§ 300-53 M-2 General Manufacturing District.
A.
Permitted uses. The uses permitted in the M-2 General Manufacturing District generally include those manufacturing and industrial activities that cannot be operated economically without creating some conditions that may be obnoxious or objectionable to the occupants of adjoining properties and, for that reason, must be grouped in areas where similar industrial uses are now located or where the permitted uses will be best located in accordance with the comprehensive land use plan of the City, which is designed to protect the welfare of the community. No building or premises, improved or unimproved, shall be used and no building shall be hereafter built or altered within an M-2 General Manufacturing District unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following uses:
B.
Conditional uses. In addition to the above, the following uses may be permitted if located more than 500 feet from any part of an R District, and subject to the approval of the Zoning Board of Appeals under the provisions of Article VII:
(1)
Animal slaughterhouses and stockyards.
(2)
Acetylene gas manufacture.
(3)
Acid manufacture.
(4)
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture.
(5)
Arsenals.
(6)
Asphalt manufacture or refining.
(7)
Celluloid manufacture or treatment.
(8)
Cement, gypsum, lime or plaster of paris manufacture.
(9)
Coke ovens.
(10)
Crematories.
(11)
Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(12)
Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture.
(13)
Distillation of bones, coal or wood.
(14)
Dyestuff manufacture.
(15)
Fat and/or animal rendering.
(16)
Fertilizer manufacture.
(17)
Fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage.
(18)
Gas (illuminating or heating) manufacture.
(19)
Glue, sizing or gelatin manufacture.
(20)
Gunpowder manufacture and storage.
(21)
Incineration or reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse, except for municipal purposes.
(22)
Junkyards and automobile wrecking yards.
(23)
Mining.
(24)
Petroleum refining.
(25)
Rock crushing.
(26)
Rubber or gutta percha manufacture or treatment.
(27)
Saltworks.
(28)
Sauerkraut, sausage or bologna manufacture.
(29)
Smelters.
(30)
Stone mills or quarries.
(31)
Sulphuric, nitric, hydrochloric or picric acid manufacture.
(32)
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining.
(33)
Tar distillation or manufacture.
(34)
Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture.
(35)
Vinegar manufacture.
(36)
Yeast plants.
C.
Height: no limit.
D.
Area.
(1)
Front yard. No front yard shall be required when all of the frontage on one side of the street between intersecting streets, a public area or a railroad right-of-way is located in an M-2 Manufacturing District. Where the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is located partially in an M-2 District and partially in another use district, the front yard requirements of the other use district shall apply to the M-2 District.
(2)
Side yard: same as required in the M-1 Manufacturing District.
(3)
Rear yard: same as required in the M-1 Manufacturing District.