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Polk City City Zoning Code

165.11 INDUSTRIAL

ZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS M-1 AND M-2.

   The industrially zoned districts are intended to provide for manufacturing processes of various intensities needed on a local, State, or national level while promoting the quality of life, health, and general welfare desired by the citizens of the City, all consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. It is intended that these districts shall not be used indiscriminately to permit any use that could potentially be detrimental to the intent of the Zoning Ordinance.
   1.   Industrial Districts.
      A.   M-1 Light Industrial District. The M-1 district is intended to reserve sites appropriate for the location of industrial uses with relatively limited environmental effects. The district is designed to provide appropriate space and regulations to encourage good quality industrial development while assuring that facilities are served with adequate parking and loading facilities and buffered from less intensive uses.
      B.   M-2 Heavy Industrial District. The M-2 district is intended to accommodate a wide variety of industrial uses, some of which may have significant external effects. These uses may have operating characteristics that create conflicts with lower-intensity surrounding land uses. The district provides the reservation of land for these activities and includes buffering requirements to reduce incompatibility.
   2.   Principal Permitted Uses. Principal permitted uses for industrial districts are as follows:
INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS
PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USE
M-1
M-2
INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS
PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USE
M-1
M-2
Animal boarding and kennels, domesticated only.
P
P
Animal hospitals and Veterinary Clinics.
P
P
Animal Livery stable or riding academy.
 
P
Auditoriums, Movie Theaters.
P
P
Automotive - automobile, truck & equipment sales & service.
P
P
Automotive - service and repairs, including tire sales & repair and small engine repair.
P
P
Automotive - assembly or major repairs, machine shops.
P
P
Automotive - body and fender repair shop, but not including automobile wrecking or used parts yards, or outside storage of automobile component parts.
P
P
Automotive - Tire vulcanizing, re-treading and recapping.
  
P
Automotive - Truck or trailer rental establishments.
P
P
Automotive - truck stop, including repairs.
P
P
Automotive - vehicle wash.
P
P
Automotive Supply (retail).
P
P
Banks and Financial Institutions, including ATM machines and drive-thru teller lanes.
P
P
Business - Business and Professional Offices and Agencies.
P
P
Business – Technology business related to manufacturing, research and distribution.
P
P
Cemetery Services - Funeral Homes, Mortuaries.
P
P
Cemetery Services - Cemeteries.
 
 
Cemetery Services - Crematories, if not less than 200 feet from any “R” district.
P
P
Cemetery Services - Monument Sales and engraving.
P
P
Civic - Libraries, Museums and similar institutions of an educational or philanthropic nature.
P
P
Civic - Public parks and playgrounds.
 
 
Commercial Entertainment - (indoors) including fitness centers and amusement centers except Studios and Adult Entertainment.
PR
PR
Commercial Recreation (primarily outdoors) including private playgrounds, parks and golf courses; and amusement enterprises.
PR
PR
Convenience Stores, Gas Stations.
P
P
Drinking Establishments, Billiard Halls.
P
P
Education - Child Care, including Daycares and Pre-schools.
P
P
Education - Commercial Trade Schools and Business Colleges.
P
P
Education - Primary and Secondary schools, public & private.
 
 
Education - Residential Housing including dormitories, Fraternities and Sororities if recognized by the local college or university.
P
P
FireworksRetail Sales Facility
(Ord. 2025-600 - Jul. 25 Supp.)
P
P
Laboratories - film, testing, experimental.
P
P
Laundry - Bag, carpet and rug cleaning.
P
P
Laundry - dry cleaning operations occupying more than 6000 sf of gross floor area.
P
P
Laundry - launderettes, coin-operated - pressing, repair, dry cleaning pickup and dry cleaning operations occupying less than 6000 square feet of gross floor area.
P
P
Manufacture and repair of electric signs, advertising structures, light sheet metal products, and heating & ventilating equipment.
P
P
Manufacture of musical instruments, novelties and molded rubber products.
P
P
Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or natural gas.
P
P
Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, instruments and devices.
P
P
Manufacturing creameries, bottle works, wholesale ice and ice cream plants, cold storage warehousing and distribution stations.
P
P
Manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as bone, cloth, cork, fiber, leather, paper, plastics, metals or stones, tobacco, wax, yarns and wood.
P
P
Manufacturing, distribution, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food products, except fish and meat products, cereals, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, stock feed, flour, and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
 
P
Medical Hospitals.
P
P
Metals - Blacksmith, welding, cooperage works or other metal shop including enameling, lacquering or painting with controlled emissions not causing noxious fumes or odors.
PR
P
Metals - Foundry casting lightweight non-ferrous metals or electric foundry, not causing noxious fumes or odors.
 
P
Mineral Extraction, sand & gravel pits, and smelting of ores.
 
P
Nurseries and Greenhouses.
P
P
Post Office Substations.
P
P
Printing and publishing houses.
P
P
Public Transportation terminals, including bus stations, airports and landing fields.
PR
PR
Religious Institutions.
P
P
Restaurants - coffee shops with drive-through.
PR
PR
Restaurants - Delicatessens, ice cream parlors, and Fast Food including carry-out.
P
P
Restaurants - Fast Food drive-through.
PR
PR
Restaurants - Full service sit-down.
P
P
Retail bakeries and dairy stores.
P
P
Retail Farm Machinery and Mobile/Modular Home sales and repair.
P
P
Retail grocery stores, supermarkets; drug stores.
P
P
Retail Hardware & Lumber Yards, building material sales yards, millwork.
P
P
Retail Hardware stores; Home Improvement stores excluding outdoor sales yards.
P
P
Retail shops (less than 6000 sf).
P
P
Retail stores (6000 sf and larger).
P
P
Retail stores with associated manufacturing such as pottery shops with kilns.
P
P
Retail stores with incidental repairs (appliance, bicycle, jewelry).
P
P
Salons - Hair, nail.
P
P
Sawmill, planing mill, and manufacture of wood products not involving chemical treatment.
P
P
Studios - Music, Photographic, Dance, and Fitness Centers, all less than 6000 sf in size.
P
P
Tannery.
 
P
Warehouse - Locker storage & retail sales only.
P
P
Warehouse - Mini-storage, RV storage, Boat Storage.
P
P
Warehouse storage & distribution of explosives, liquid fertilizer or coal.
 
PR
Warehouse storage & distribution of non-flammable, non-explosive and non-perishable goods.
P
P
Wholesale - Bakeries.
P
P
Wholesale storage or refining of petroleum, ethanol or products thereof including asphalt plants.
 
SP
Yards - Circus, carnival or similar transient enterprise, provided such structures or buildings shall be at least 200 feet from any “R” District.
 
P
Yards - Concrete mixing, concrete product manufacture.
 
P
Yards - Contractors’ equipment storage yard or plant, including hauling services, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
PR
P
Yards - junk, iron, rag, waste paper; including storage or bailing if completely obscured.
 
PR
Yards - livestock feed sales and storage provided dust is effectively controlled.
PR
PR
Yards - Sanitary Landfill or transfer station.
 
PR
Yards – truck terminal yards
 
PR
Other manufacturing or service establishments equivalent to the permitted uses listed above.
PR
PR
Fireworks Retail Sales Facility
P
 
Key:
P = Permitted Use
PR = Permitted Use With Restrictions, provided said use is permitted as determined by P&Z and approved by City Council
Blank = Use Not Permitted
 
   3.   Restrictions for Principal Permitted Uses. The following restrictions shall apply to the appropriate Permitted Use with Restrictions:
      A.   Outdoor storage of materials or equipment is not permitted in the M-1 or M-2 Districts except and specifically approved by Council on a Site Plan. Said storage shall be limited to areas designated on the Site Plan and shall be maintained and screened in conformance to the Site Plan.
      B.   Automobile, truck, and equipment sales, service, and leasing shall be permitted provided that all outside storage, display and parking areas shall be used and maintained in conformance with an approved Site Plan and the parking, display and storage of vehicles for hire, rental or sale shall be limited to the area designated for such use in the Site Plan. All storage shall be on paved surfaces. RV, camper, and boat sales and rentals are not permitted outdoors.
      C.   Mini storage facilities, mini-warehouses, and outdoor storage spaces for recreational vehicles of any kind, including all access drives and parking areas, shall be on paved surfaces.
(Ord. 2022-2600 – Feb. 23 Supp.)
      D.   No uses shall be permitted to be established or maintained in any district which by reason of its nature or manner of operation is or may become hazardous, noxious, or offensive owning to the emission of odor, dust, smoke cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibrations, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
   4.   Accessory Uses. Uses not permitted as a Principal permitted use for that zoning district shall not be permitted as an accessory use except as specifically permitted herein. The following accessory uses are permitted in industrial zoning districts:
      A.   Customary accessory uses and structures incidental to Permitted Principal Uses.
      B.   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work.
   5.   Accessory Structures. Accessory structures may be constructed on commercial properties as permitted in Section 165.06.
   6.   Site Development Regulations. Dimensional requirements for industrial districts are as follows:
SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Regulator
M-1
M-2
SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Regulator
M-1
M-2
Building Height Limit
4 Stories or 75 feet
4 Stories or 75 feet
Minimum Lot Area
None
1 acre
Minimum Lot Width
None
150 feet
Minimum Front Yard Depth
30 feet
30 feet
Minimum Side Yard Depth
None1
None2
Minimum Rear Yard Depth
40 feet3
40 feet3
Notes:
1.
Except 30 feet where adjacent to “R” residential districts.
2.
Except 200 feet where adjacent to “R” residential districts and except 100 feet where adjacent to commercial districts.
3.
Where rear lot line is adjacent to a railroad right-of-way, no setback is required.
 
   7.   Required Conditions. No use shall be permitted to be established or maintained which by reason of its nature or manner of operation is or may become hazardous, noxious or offensive owing to the emission of odor, dust, smoke cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibrations, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
   8.   Off-Street Loading. Off-street loading shall be provided as required by Section 165.17 for all industrial districts.
   9.   Off-Street Parking. Off-street parking shall be provided as required by Section 165.18 for all industrial districts.
   10.   Site Plans. Site plans shall be required for all uses in all industrial districts. See Chapter 157 for Site Plan requirements.
   11.   Architectural Design Standards. Architectural Standards shall be required for all uses in all industrial districts consistent with the provisions of Section 157.09.
   12.   Open Space Requirements. Open space requirements shall be required for all industrial zoning districts in conformance with Section 165.06, Subsection 11, of this chapter.
   13.   Landscape, Planting and Screening. Open space planting, parking area landscaping buffer screening with easements shall be required in accordance with Section 165.19 of this chapter.
   14.   Exceptions and Modifications. See Section 165.16 for exceptions to the industrial zoning district regulations.