The M-2 heavy manufacturing district is intended to provide for the establishment of industrial uses essential to the development of a balanced economic base.

(Prior code § 13.15.001)

Permitted uses in the M-2 heavy manufacturing district are as follows:

A.

All uses permitted in the M-1 district, Section 17.60.020;

B.

Alcohol fertilizer, bulk sales and storage;

C.

Baled cotton storage;

D.

Building materials, concrete and cement products;

E.

Cotton compress, ready concrete;

F.

Used materials yards, organic fertilizer, bulk sales and storage;

G.

Manufacturing:

1.

Automotive:

a.

Assembly;

b.

Battery manufacture;

c.

Body and fender works;

d.

Rebuilding,

2.

Machinery shop (no punch press over twenty (20) tons or drop hammers):

a.

Automatic skew machines;

b.

Blacksmith shops,

3.

Manufacturing compounding assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials:

a.

Bone;

b.

Feathers;

c.

Hair;

d.

Horns;

e.

Paints, not employing a boiling process;

f.

Rubber,

4.

Microwave relay structures,

5.

Meat packing and meat processing;

H.

Cogeneration plants to burn wood and agricultural byproducts.

(Prior code § 13.15.002)

In the M-2 heavy manufacturing district, uses permitted subject to conditional use permit are as follows:

A.

Acetylene gas manufacture or storage;

B

Acid manufacture;

C.

Aircraft factory;

D.

Alcohol distillation, including wineries and breweries (when not connected with adequate public sewers);

E.

Aluminum foundry;

F.

Ammonia bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture;

G.

Animal and poultry slaughtering or packing;

H.

Asphaltic and asphaltic concrete, mixing or batching plants;

I.

Automobile wrecking, junk, rag or scrap iron storage or baling;

J.

Blast furnace or coke oven;

K.

Bone, coal or wood distillation;

L.

Brick or tile products manufacture;

M.

Cement, lime, gypsum, potash or plaster of paris manufacture;

N.

Cinder and cinder block manufacture;

O.

Clay and clay product manufacturing;

P.

Cotton ginning or oil milling;

Q.

Drop forge industries manufacturing forgings with power hammers;

R.

Dumping, refuse;

S.

Explosives manufacturing or storage;

T.

Fat rendering, tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining;

U.

Fertilizer (inorganic), the compounding of dried inorganic materials;

V.

Fish smoking, curing, or canning;

W.

Fruit and vegetable processing;

X.

Fungicides manufacturing or processing;

Y.

Garbage, offal, dead animal or refuse incineration, reduction or dumping;

Z.

Glass blowing (industrial) and glass bottle production;

AA.

Glass manufacturing;

BB.

Glue manufacturing;

CC.

Grain milling and sacking;

DD.

Insecticides manufacturing (flammable type);

EE.

Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry or fabrication plant, including roller mill or boiler works;

FF.

Lamp black manufacture, including stove or shoe polish manufacture;

GG.

Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture;

HH.

Oils and fats (vegetable) refining;

II.

Olive oil plant or olive processing plant;

JJ.

Ore reduction, including refining and smelting of metals;

KK.

Organic fertilizer manufacturing;

LL.

Paint, pigments, enamels, japans, lacquers, putty, thinner, varnishes, whiting, wood fillers and stains manufacturing;

MM.

Petroleum refining or petroleum product manufacture or storage, including gas and asphalt;

NN.

Plastic manufacture;

OO.

Railroad repair shops;

PP.

Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture;

QQ.

Salt works;

RR.

Sand blasting;

SS.

Sawmills;

TT.

Soap manufacturing;

UU.

Soda and compound manufacturing;

VV.

Stock feed lots and stock yards;

WW.

Syrup and grape sugar manufacture;

XX.

Tanning, curing or storing of rawhides or skins;

YY.

Wool pulling or scouring;

ZZ.

Yeast manufacturing;

AAA.

Other uses which by written decision are determined by the commission to be obnoxious or detrimental to the public welfare by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration or other causes.

BBB.

Wireless telecommunications facilities.

(Prior code § 13.15.003)

(Ord. No. 17-06, § 1, 4-25-2017)

In the M-2 heavy manufacturing district, uses expressly prohibited are as follows:

A.

Residential uses;

B.

Commercial;

C.

Surface mining or surface drilling for oil, gas or minerals;

D.

Any use identified as harmful to the Mendota community by the planning commission.

(Prior code § 13.15.004)

The property development standards of the M-1 district, Section 17.60.050 shall apply, with the following exceptions:

A.

Building Height. None.

(Prior code § 13.15.005)

All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions prescribed in Chapters 17.08, 17.88 and 17.92.

(Prior code § 13.15.006)

Before any building or structure may be erected on any lot in the M-2 district, a site plan shall have been approved pursuant to the provisions of Section 17.08.090.

(Ord. 99-01 § 12, 1999: prior code § 13.15.007)