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Scotch Plains City Zoning Code

§ 23-3.15

M-2 Industrial Zone.

a. 
Permitted primary uses.
1. 
Any use permitted in Subsection 23-3.14a1, 2, or 3.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection a.2, regarding cannabis businesses, added 5-18-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-9, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 6-21-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-14.
b. 
Permitted secondary uses.
1. 
Any secondary uses enumerated in Subsection 23-3.13b.
c. 
Conditional uses (subject to the conditions of § 23-5).
1. 
Public utility uses.
d. 
Other provisions and requirements.
1. 
One off-street parking space shall be provided for each visitor and each employee on the maximum work shift, provided that at no time shall the use result in parking on a public street for any reason. The onus and burden of proof for establishing and always providing an adequate amount of required off-street parking area shall be upon the original applicant for the building permit or any subsequent owner, occupier or user of the premises.
2. 
Parking areas may be located in any of the required yard areas, provided they are not less than 50 feet from the boundary of any residential zone or a street line, and employee parking shall be behind the setback line.
3. 
Each use located in this zone shall provide truck loading and unloading space on the same lot and in other than the required front yard so as to permit the transfer of goods in other than a public street.
4. 
Each use established in this zone shall set aside 20% of the tract for seeding and landscaping, and use this area for no other purpose.
5. 
Wherever a use in this zone is on a lot which abuts a residence zone, a twenty-foot-wide buffer area shall be provided adjacent to the residence zone boundary. Such buffer area shall be suitably planted and maintained with landscape materials of such species and sizes, in a manner approved by the approving authority, as will preclude any detrimental effect upon the adjacent residence zone or adjacent residential property.
6. 
All industrial activities or processes shall take place within an enclosed building. Incidental storage of materials out of doors shall be shielded from any adjacent public streets or residential areas by fencing, landscaping or other appropriate measure.
7. 
The uses enumerated as prohibited uses in Subsection 23-3.14d7 are hereby prohibited in this zone.