Seagoville City Zoning Code
Division 18
LM Light Manufacturing District Regulations
§ 25.02.421 Use regulations.
In an “LM” District, no land shall be used and no building shall be used, erected or converted to any use other than those listed below or those of a like and/or similar use:
Any use permitted in the "C" Commercial District. |
Adding machine manufacture. |
Aircraft parts manufacture. |
Airplane repair and manufacturing. |
Agricultural implement manufacturing. |
Automobile assembly. |
Automobile parts manufacturing. |
Bag manufacturer and cleaning. |
Bakery, commercial. |
Bank equipment manufacture. |
Blacksmith. |
Boiler manufacture and repair of boilers not exceeding 15 h.p. |
Bolt and nut manufacture. |
Boot and shoe manufacture. |
Broom manufacture. |
Building material machinery, or supplying having outside storage. |
Box and crate manufacture (other than paper). |
Canning and preserving factory. |
Carbon battery manufacture. |
Carpet cleaning - if no dustproof cleaning rooms in which dust catching, washing and scouring equipment is provided. |
Celluloid and similar cellulose manufacture. |
Central station, light and power plant. |
Cereal mill. |
Chair manufacture. |
Cheese factory. |
Chick hatchery. |
Coal yard, coal hoist, coal pocket or coal car trestle. |
Coffin manufacture. |
Cooperage company. |
Cotton company. |
Cotton ginning, baling and compressing. |
Cotton oil mill. |
Cotton seed products manufacture. |
Dairy - wholesale. |
Data center. |
Disinfectant manufacture. |
Dye manufacturing. |
Electric or acetylene welding. |
Electrical supply manufacture. |
Electrical power plant. |
Elevator manufacture. |
Enameling and painting. |
Feed mill. |
Fixture manufacture. |
Flour milling and grain storage and elevators. |
Food processing. |
Furniture manufacture. |
Fur warehouse. |
Gasoline, wholesale storage. |
Grain elevator. |
Hardware manufacture. |
Helicopter terminal. |
Hosiery mill. |
Horseshoeing. |
Insecticide manufacturing. |
Iron works, ornamental. |
Knit goods manufacture. |
Light agricultural implements manufacture. |
Livery stable. |
Machinery manufacture. |
Mattress factory. |
Mattress renovating. |
Metal products, stamping and manufacturing. |
Milk processing plant. |
Outside storage, new materials. |
Paper products manufacture. |
Pattern shop. |
Pecan processing. |
Petroleum, wholesale storage. |
Planing mill. |
Poultry feed manufacturer. |
Poultry slaughtering - dressing and storage. |
Printing ink manufacture. |
Public stable. |
Railroad yards - roundhouse or shop. |
Rice cleaning and polishing. |
Riding academy. |
Riding stable. |
Rock wool manufacture. |
Rug manufacture. |
Shoe factory. |
Stable. |
Stone cutting. |
Storage battery manufacturing. |
Storage of live poultry, or poultry dressing. |
Textile manufacture. |
Tool manufacture. |
Veterinary hospital. |
Water distillation. |
Wood products manufacture. |
Woodworking shops. |
Any manufacturing or industrial use which is not noxious or offensive by reasons of emission or [of] odor, dust, smoke, gas or noise, but specifically excluding uses listed in the “HM” Heavy Manufacturing District. |
(Ordinance 12-89, sec. 2c, adopted 9/14/89; Ordinance 04-10 adopted 5/6/10; Ordinance 2024-25 adopted 11/18/2024)
§ 25.02.422 Height regulations.
No building shall exceed six standard stories in height unless set back from all lot lines or any required yard lines one foot for each foot above such height limit. When building is located on a lot adjoining a single-family district, a two-family or an Apartment District, it shall not exceed three standard stories in height unless it is set back one foot from all required yard lines for each one foot or [of] additional height above such height limit.
(Ordinance 05-06, sec. 1, adopted 5/4/06)
§ 25.02.423 Area regulations.
(a)
Front yard.
No front yard shall be required for a retail, commercial, or manufacturing use unless:
(1)
The street is less than 60 feet in width, in which case a manufacturing or commercial structure shall be placed not less than 30 feet from the centerline of said street. A 25-foot minimum front yard shall be required for a residential, duplex or apartment use.
(2)
Where the frontage on one side of a street within a block is partly in the “LM” District and partially in a more restricted district, then the front yard shall conform to the front yard regulations of the more restricted district.
(b)
Side yard.
No side yard shall be required for a retail, commercial or manufacturing use, except:
(1)
On the side of a lot adjoining a single-family, two-family, or Apartment District and not separated therefrom by an alley, there shall be a side yard of ten feet or ten percent of the average width of the lot whichever is smaller, but a side yard shall not be less than five feet.
(2)
For a single-family, two-family or a multiple-family dwelling use, a side yard shall be required on each side of the lot. The minimum width of the side yard shall be ten feet or ten percent of the average width of the lot, whichever is smaller, but a side yard shall not be less than five feet, except side adjacent to side street shall not be less than ten feet.
(c)
Rear yard.
No rear yard shall be required for a retail, commercial or manufacturing use, except where a lot abuts single-family, duplex, or Apartment District in which event there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot equal to 20 percent of the depth of the lot but in no case shall a required rear yard be less than ten feet in depth and the required rear yard shall not be greater than 24 feet. No rear yard shall be required where the retail, commercial, or manufacturing use is separated from the residential district by an alley. For a single-family, two-family, or multiple-family dwelling use, there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot equal to 20 percent of the depth of the lot, but the rear yard shall not be greater than 24 feet.
(d)
Area of the lot.
The minimum lot area requirements for a single-family, two-family or multiple-family dwelling shall be the same as in the “A” District. Where dwelling facilities are provided above stores, the lot area requirements shall be the same as those required for multiple-family dwellings in the Apartment District.
(e)
Width of the lot.
The minimum width of the lot shall be 60 feet for a single-family dwelling, two-family or multiple-family dwelling use, for other uses, the width may be less than 60 feet.
(f)
Parking regulations.
(1)
The parking regulations for a single-family, two-family, and multiple-family dwellings are the same as those in the Apartment Multiple Dwelling District.
(2)
The parking regulations for all local retail uses are the same as in the “LR” Local Retail District.
(3)
The parking regulations for commercial uses are the same as those in the “C” Commercial District.
(4)
Manufacturing, industrial, and processing establishments, repair shops, warehouses, storage buildings, lumber and supply yards shall provide off-street parking space at a ratio of one space for each five employees.
The maximum number of employees on duty at any time, day or night, shall be the basis of determining parking requirements for any establishment. Where the number of employees is indeterminate, off-street parking space shall be provided in a ratio of one space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area.
(5)
Retail, office, service, industrial and manufacturing buildings shall provide and maintain off-street facilities for the loading of merchandise and goods within the building or on the lot and adjacent to a public alley or private service drive to facilitate the movement of traffic on the public streets. Such space shall consist of a minimum area of ten feet by 25 feet for each 20,000 square feet in the building or on the lot used for retail, storage or service purposes.
(g)
Exterior fire-resistant construction.
(Ordinance 05-06, sec. 1, adopted 5/4/06; Ordinance 04-10 adopted 5/6/10)