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Milford City Zoning Code

13.21 Manufacturing

District M

13.21.010 Intent And Purpose

The M designation is intended to permit the most intensive types of industrial operations and facilities.

13.21.020 Permitted Uses

The following are permitted uses in any M district:

  1. Administrative, business or professional offices;
  2. Research and development facilities;
  3. Light industrial including, but not limited to, auto body and paint shops, cabinet or woodworking shops, framing, furniture shops, windshield repair, product service center, or engine rebuilding shops.
  4. Public parks or recreational facilities;
  5. Day care centers;
  6. Distribution or trucking uses including parcel service delivery depot;
  7. Assembly including, but not limited to, clothing, electrical appliances, electronic or electrical instruments, radios, phonographs, toys, novelties, heating and ventilating ducts, or signs;
  8. Public utility structures
  9. Wholesaling;
  10. Auto related uses including, but not limited to, repair garages, gasoline/service stations or car washes;
  11. Veterinary hospitals;
  12. Warehousing or storage;
  13. Mini-storage;
  14. Household appliance repair including, but not limited to, refrigerators, washers, dryers, televisions or radios;
  15. Outdoor storage, when completely screened from public right-of-way, including, but not limited to, contractors yards, vehicle storage, lumber yards, construction supplies, vehicle storage, equipment rental yards;
  16. Cleaning, dyeing or laundry plants;
  17. Retailing, secondary and appurtenant to a wholesale or manufacturing outlet;
  18. Salvage or recycling buy-back collection centers;
  19. Radio or television broadcast stations or cable television facilities;
  20. Furniture upholstery shops;
  21. Mortuary;
  22. Animal boarding kennels or shelters;
  23. Railroad related loading and distribution activities;
  24. Batch plants;
  25. Bus, rail or rapid transit depot or station; and
  26. Any other uses deemed by the Planning and Zoning Commission to be in harmony with listed permitted uses and the purpose and intent of this district.

13.21.030 Conditional Uses

The following uses may be permitted subject to a conditional use permit:

  1. Medical Offices or clinics;
  2. Personal service establishments including, but not limited to, beauty or barber shops, locksmiths, photography studios, shoe repair, dry cleaners, Laundromats, tailors, or dressmaking shops;
  3. Places of worship;
  4. Clubs, lodges or halls;
  5. Heavy industrial and manufacturing uses including, but not limited to, assaying, ceramics, pottery, statuary, ink, polish, enamel, sandblasting, wallboard or glass (no blast furnace), blast furnaces as an accessory use to a permitted or conditional use and other uses which will not be obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare;
  6. Materials recovery facility or transfer facility/station which will not be obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare;
  7. Sand Pits;
  8. Batch plants;
  9. Secondary processing of raw mineral material; and
  10. Any other uses deemed by the Planning and Zoning Commission to be in harmony with listed permitted uses and the purpose and intent of this district.
  11. One dog shall be allowed per 2,000 sqft-up to a maximum of 6 dogs per county recorded lot.

(Ord. 02-2015, Amended, 06/17/2015)

13.21.040 Maximum Development Intensities

No maximum lot coverage. No minimum center size.

13.21.050 General Development Standards

  1. Minimum center street frontage shall be 100 feet;
  2. Minimum center depth shall be 200 feet;
  3. Minimum street frontage setback shall be 20 feet;
  4. Minimum rear setback shall be 20 feet where abutting a residentially zoned property, otherwise no setback is required;
  5. Minimum side setback shall be 20 feet where abutting a residentially zoned property, otherwise no setback is required;
  6. All setbacks shall be landscaped;
  7. Maximum building height, 35 feet or three stories, whichever is less. Buildings over one story, or 18 feet, in height shall not be permitted within 150 feet of an adjacent residentially zoned property unless separated by a public street or easement of no less than 50 feet in total width.
  8. Accessory structures shall not exceed one story in height,
  9. Architectural features such as cornices, chimneys and bell towers may exceed the height limit;
  10. Design review shall be required for all structures;
  11. Where any proposed M use abuts any residential district, a wall at least six feet in height, or appropriate landscaping, shall be located adjoining the property line, except adjoining a required front yard. This height may increase by design review depending on the use.

13.21.060 Applicable Regulations

13.23.010 through 13.23.080 - Special Uses 13.24.010 through 13.24.080 - Public Uses 13.31.010 through 13.31.030 - Fencing and Walls 13.32.010 through 13.32.070 - Vehicular Parking, Loading and Maneuvering Areas 13.33.010 through 13.33.030 - Landscaping 13.34.090 through 13.34.190 - Yards and Setbacks 13.35.010 through 13.35.060 - Design Review and Site Plan Review 13.42.010 through 13.42.080 - Combining Overlay District