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Mohnton City Zoning Code

PART 8

M MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS

§ 27-800 Use Regulations.

[Ord. 264, 7/23/1962, § 800, 801]
In M Manufacturing Districts, the following regulations shall apply. A building may be erected or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the following purposes and no other, provided that 1) no use shall create a noxious, offensive, or hazardous condition beyond the district boundary line (See § 27-908); and 2) each use shall comply with the area, height, and special design requirements of § 27-801 below:
1. 
Any use permitted in C-2 Commercial Districts, except the following uses which are prohibited:
A. 
Dwelling use, other than living quarters for such persons as watchman, caretakers, and their families as an accessory use to an industrial use;
B. 
Hotel; rooming, tourist or boarding house, motel, tourist cabin court or automobile court.
C. 
Place of amusement, recreation or assembly; and
D. 
Retail store or any other use which involves, as a main use, direct service to the public, except in conjunction with a permitted industrial use, or except on a lot area three acres or larger in size.
2. 
Laboratory (research, testing, experimental).
3. 
Central office building or similar establishment.
4. 
Manufacture of:
A. 
Beverages (nonalcoholic);
B. 
Clothing and other textile products (excluding manufacture of textiles);
C. 
Containers for food products, fruits and vegetables;
D. 
Cosmetics;
E. 
Electrical appliances and supplies, such as lighting fixtures, wiring, toasters, radios (including assembly of such);
F. 
Furniture, industrial and commercial tables, chairs and similar equipment;
G. 
Ice cream, butter, and other dairy products;
H. 
Jewelry, clocks, watches;
I. 
Medical, dental, drafting equipment, optical goods, and other professional and scientific instruments;
J. 
Musical instruments;
K. 
Products from the following previously prepared materials: bone; canvas; ceramics; cork; feathers, felt and hair (excluding washing, curing, dyeing), fur (excluding tanning or dyeing); glass, horn, leather (excluding tanning or leather processing); and small products from previously prepared paper, plastic, rubber (excluding rubber and synthetic processing) shells; wood.
L. 
Toys, tools and hardware.
5. 
Metal stamping, finishing, plating; extrusion of small products and other similar light metal processes.
6. 
Packing, crating, or bottling establishment (not including canning, when conducted within an entirely enclosed building).
7. 
Printing or publishing establishment.
8. 
The following additional uses when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, subject also to the general standards specified in § 27-1207:
A. 
Chemical processes, such as adhesives, bleaching products, blueing, calcimine, essential oils, not involving noxious odors or danger from fire or explosion;
B. 
Compounding of pharmaceutical products;
C. 
Food products manufacture and processing (excluding meat and fish);
D. 
Metal or steel products assembly and fabrication; metal treatment and processing such as enameling, galvanizing, and lacquering, provided that refining, smelting, alloying or other basic processes in the manufacture of iron and steel are not permitted;
E. 
Manufacture of large products from the following previously prepared materials: paper, plastic, and rubber;
F. 
Textile manufacture;
G. 
Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted uses, subject to such additional reasonable safeguards as the Zoning Hearing Board may determine, provided that in no case shall the following uses or any use substantially similar thereto be permitted: abattoir; bulk storage of fireworks and explosives; fat rendering; dump, incineration or reduction of garbage (except by Borough); leather processing; manufacture of asphalt, cement, noxious or hazardous chemicals, cork, explosives, fertilizer, illuminating gas, glue, ink, iron or steel (including basic processing of products), linoleum, oil cloth, paint, plastics, rubber (including rubber and synthetic processing), soap; petroleum refining; quarry, stone processing; storage of crude oil or any of its volatile products or other highly inflammable liquids in aboveground tanks; wood or wood pulp processing.
9. 
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, and signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Part 10 of this chapter, provided that any area used for outdoor storage shall be suitably screened from the surrounding area by a satisfactory wall, planting or other barrier.

§ 27-801 Area, Height, and Special Regulations.

[Ord. 264, 7/23/1962, § 802]
1. 
Lot, Area and Lot Width. A lot area not less than one acre per use, and a minimum lot width of 150 feet shall be provided.
2. 
Building Area. Not more than 60% of the area of each lot may be occupied by buildings.
3. 
Yards. The following yards shall be provided on each lot:
A. 
Front Yard. One yard, not less than 50 feet in depth, subject to the provisions of § 27-912.
B. 
Side Yards. Two yards, not less than 60 feet in aggregate width, and neither less than 30 feet; except that in the case of a corner lot, any side yard which abuts a street shall have a width of not less than the required depth for the front yard of a building fronting on such street and adjoining the corner lot, subject to the provisions of § 27-901.
C. 
Rear Yard. One yard not less than 40 feet in depth.
4. 
Height Regulations. No building shall exceed 40 feet, or two stories in height.
5. 
Special Design Requirements. Each use shall comply with the special access regulations prescribed for C-2 Districts in § 27-701, Subsection 5A, and shall be designed, arranged, and conducted in a manner which will not detract materially from the character of the immediately surrounding area. Each such use shall:
A. 
Provide a buffer yard of not less than 150 feet in width along any residence district, or Borough boundary line. This required yard shall be measured from the boundary line, or from the street line where a street constitutes the boundary. The 50 feet of such yard space nearest the district or Borough boundary line shall be used as a planting strip, on which shall be placed hedge, evergreens, shrubbery, or other suitable planting or screening. The remaining 100 feet of space may be used for off-street parking or for any permitted purpose other than a building or permanent structure, or any processing activity.
B. 
Provide and utilize such smoke, odor, dust, noise, or other control devices as are necessary to insure that the use will not constitute a nuisance or an objectionable condition as defined in § 27-908.
C. 
Comply with the off-street parking and loading requirements of §§ 27-909 and 27-910.
D. 
Make adequate provision for water supply, and sewage and waste disposal.