Savanna City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 7
M MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS
10-7-1: INTENT:
The manufacturing districts' regulations are intended to govern the locations, types, scope and method of operations for expansion of existing and development of new industrial and allied establishments within the framework of the industrial growth goals of the city. The regulations are designed to preserve those lands designated on the Savanna comprehensive city plan for industrial and allied developments by preventing intrusions therein of buildings, structures and uses that do not complement or are not compatible with the use of such land for desired industrial developments. In addition, uses hereafter established in the manufacturing districts are regulated in accordance with their compliance with performance standards governing methods of operations for the manufacturing district in which they are located. (1977 Code)
10-7-2: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
(A) Permitted Uses: In manufacturing districts indicated in the zoning district map, no land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or altered and used or designed and intended to be used in whole or in part for any other use than one or more of the uses designated hereinafter as a permitted or conditional permitted use and under conditions specified in the manufacturing district in which the land, building, or structure is or shall be located, except the following:
1. A use lawfully established on the effective date of this title, provided that uses, buildings, or structures rendered nonconforming by this title shall be subject to regulation herein set forth in chapter 9 of this title.
2. Conditional uses, as hereinafter listed and under conditions stipulated in each district.
(B) Prohibited Buildings, Structures, And Uses: Buildings or structures shall not hereafter be erected or structurally altered, or new uses of land hereafter established or existing uses of land hereafter enlarged for any of the following uses: abattoirs; arsenals; crematories; creosote treatment or manufacture; fat rendering; fertilizer manufacture; fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage; dumping, reduction, or other processing of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse, except when conducted in a publicly operated incinerator plant; ore reduction; petroleum processing or refining; pyroxylin manufacture; natural or synthetic rubber, caoutchouc, or gutta percha manufacture or treatment; salt works; sauerkraut manufacture; soap manufacture; smelters; stockyard or slaughter of animals or fowl; tallow, grease, or lard manufacture or treatment; tanning, curing, or storage of rawhides or skins; tar distillation or manufacture; junkyards; or automobile wrecking yards.
(C) Activities Licensed By Council: No activities involving the storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted, except such as are specifically licensed by the council, or are used as customarily incidental to the operation of a principal use in such quantities, and in a manner conforming with applicable performance standards hereafter set forth in this chapter. Such materials shall include, but shall not be confined to: all primary explosives such as lead azide, lead styphnate, fulminates and tetracene; all high explosives such as TNT, RDX, HMX, PETN, and picric acid; propellants and components thereof such as nitrocellulose, black powder, boron hydrides, hydrazine, and its derivatives; pyrotechnics and fireworks such as magnesium powder, potassium chlorate and potassium nitrate; blasting explosives such as dynamite and nitroglycerin; unstable organic compounds such as acetylides, tetrazoles, perchloric acid, perchlorates, chlorates, hydrogen peroxide in concentrations greater than thirty five percent (35%); and nuclear fuels, fissionable materials and products and reactor elements such as uranium 235 and plutonium 239.
(D) Setbacks Along District Boundary Lines: No buildings, structures or parcel of land, which are used for any establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, products or goods shall be located in an M district within fifty feet (50') of a residence district boundary line, except when directly across a street from a residence district, there shall be provided for such uses, a yard along such street of not less than forty feet (40') in depth, except off street parking may be located in such open spaces when set back not less than forty feet (40') from a lot line adjoining a street, and when located within forty feet (40') of an interior lot line of a lot in a residence district such parking area shall be effectively screened from the residential lot.
(E) Operations Within Enclosed Buildings: Operations of any establishments engaged in manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing and testing of materials, products and goods or retail or wholesale sales shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, except:
1. Off street parking and off street loading when conforming with regulations herein set forth in chapter 8 of this title.
2. Establishments of the drive-in type offering goods and services to customers waiting in parked automobiles.
3. Servicing, repairing, testing, cleaning and other operations of railroads and other transportation facilities customarily out of doors.
4. Storage and testing areas provided that such areas located within five hundred feet (500') of a residence district shall be completely enclosed behind a solid fence or wall or chainlink fence faced with dense plantings of trees or shrubs which in the case of a wall or fence shall be not less than six feet (6') or more than eight feet (8') in height.
5. Other uses customarily conducted in the out of doors recreation facilities. (1977 Code)
10-7-3: M GENERAL MANUFACTURING DISTRICT:
(A) Permitted Uses:
1. Any establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, goods, or products, provided that such establishment qualifies as a permitted use by operations conforming with M district performance standards, and other regulations herein set forth in section 10-7-2 of this chapter.
2. The following additional uses shall be permitted provided that manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, goods, or products, shall conform at least with M district performance standards applicable to an M district and other requirements herein set forth in section 10-7-2 of this chapter, except when conformance with performance standards is not applicable such buildings, structures, and uses need not set back from district boundary lines further than hereinafter required for yards:
Air, rail, or motor freight terminal and railroad switching, classification and car yards; repair shops or roundhouse or freight depot or warehouse.
Automobile service stations on a lot not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet in area.
Bottling works.
Building material sales establishments; dimension lumber, millwork, cabinets, and other building materials, including milling, planing, jointing, and manufacture of millwork.
Cannabis business establishments on a lot with an area of not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet, and no closer than one thousand feet (1,000') from a school property boundary.
Cartage, express and parcel delivery establishments but not motor freight terminals.
Clubs and lodges.
Contractor's offices and shops.
Currency exchanges.
Dry cleaning establishments.
Dwelling units for watchmen and their families, located on the premises where they are employed.
Fuel and ice retail sales establishments.
Garages, public, including painting, body and fender work and motor rebuilding.
Greenhouses, wholesale.
Laundries.
Mail order houses.
Medical and dental clinics.
Meeting halls and offices of labor organizations.
Milk distribution stations.
Monument establishments, including accessory open sales lots.
Packing and crating establishments.
Public utility and governmental service uses as follows:
Bus transit facilities, including shelters, passenger stations, parking areas, and service buildings.
Electric distribution centers and substations.
Fire stations.
Gas regulator stations.
Police stations.
Public utility and governmental service establishments; including offices, storing, testing, repairing, and servicing, but not including electronic generator plants, except equipment used to generate only the electrical requirements of the premises on which the generator is located, gas manufacturing plants, or storage facilities for natural or artificial gas; either above or below the ground, or batch mixing plants for asphaltic or portland cement concrete.
Radio and television towers.
Railroad rights of way, including rights of way for spur, lead, or team tracks, and passenger stations.
Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment and other service buildings.
Water filtration plants, pumping stations and reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants and lift stations; public or community.
Publishing and printing establishments.
Radio and television studios, stations, and towers, transmitting and receiving.
Recreation buildings and community centers.
Restaurants, including live entertainment or dancing and including accessory cocktail lounges.
Sexually oriented businesses, including, but not limited to, adult bookstores, adult entertainment cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, adult novelty stores as defined in this code.
Specific regulations related to sexually oriented businesses:
1. License Required: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a sexually oriented business or use without a valid adult use business license issued by the city pursuant to title 3, chapter 11, "Adult Entertainment Licensing And Regulation", of this code.
2. Location Of Sexually Oriented Businesses: In M general manufacturing district, sexually oriented businesses may be allowed, provided that such establishments are not located within three thousand feet (3,000') of the property boundaries of any school, daycare center, cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing and place of religious worship and provided that a sexually oriented business shall not locate within one thousand feet (1,000') of any other sexually oriented business.
3. Exterior Building Appearance: Exterior building appearance and signage of all sexually oriented businesses shall be designed to ensure that the use does not detract from the ability of businesses in the vicinity to attract customers nor affect the marketability of properties in the vicinity for sale at their assessed values.
4. Standard Of Measurement: The distances provided under this use shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects from the closest point of the structure or portion of the structure occupied or proposed for occupancy by the sexually oriented business to the nearest point of the parcel or property or land use district boundary from which the proposed land use is to be separated.
Signs, advertising.
Stadiums, auditoriums, arenas, or armories.
Temporary buildings for construction purposes or real estate sales for a period not to exceed the duration of construction or in the case of real estate sales, not more than two (2) years.
Trade schools.
Wholesale or jobbing establishments.
Accessory uses customarily incidental to the principal use.
(B) Conditional Uses (As Approved By The City Council After Receiving Recommendations From The Planning And Zoning Board):
Airports and heliports.
Automobile laundries, distance from nearest street intersection and location of vehicular ingress and egress shall be approved by the planning and zoning board.
Mobile home parks on a tract of land not less than five (5) acres. Each mobile home shall be on a lot not less than two thousand four hundred (2,400) square feet in area, one and one-half (11/2) off street parking spaces shall be provided for each mobile home and development and operation plans shall be approved by the planning and zoning board.
Park, playgrounds and other out of door recreation facilities, private, semiprivate or public, including par 3 or standard golf courses and other outdoor recreation facilities as may be recommended by the planning and zoning board and approved by the city council.
Planned development; manufacturing on a tract of land not less than ten (10) acres in area.
Radio and television towers exceeding the maximum height as herein set forth in chapter 2 of this title.
Sanitary landfills or earth landfills; locations and methods of operation shall be as approved by the planning and zoning board.
Accessory uses customarily incidental to the principal use.
(C) Yards:
1. Front Yard: Not less than thirty feet (30') in depth.
2. Side Yards: Two (2) side yards, each side yard not less than fifteen feet (15') in width except a side yard adjoining a street, not less than thirty feet (30') wide.
3. Rear Yard: Not less than twenty five feet (25'), except when a rear lot line adjoins a railroad spur, lead, team, or siding track right of way, a rear yard need not be provided.
(D) Floor Area Ratio: Not more than 0.75.
(E) Off Street Parking And Off Street Loading: In accordance with applicable regulations herein set forth in chapter 8 of this title. (1977 Code; amd. Ord. 1794, 5-24-2005; amd. Ord. 2158, 4-26-2016; amd. Ord. 2251, 9-24-2019)