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Shamokin City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

C-M Commercial Manufacturing District

§ 510-47 Uses permitted.

A. 
The following uses are permitted in the C-M Commercial Manufacturing District:
(1) 
Amusement enterprises.
(2) 
Automotive sales and services, service stations, and garages, provided that:
(a) 
No repair work is performed out-of-doors.
(b) 
All pumps and lubricating devices shall be located 12 feet from the property line.
(c) 
All fuels, oil, tires, or other accessories be stored within an enclosed structure.
(3) 
Apartments in combination with commercial uses and apartment buildings.
(4) 
Medical and dental clinics and labs.
(5) 
Stores and shops for retail business.
(6) 
Custom shops, such as furniture repair, refinishing, upholstery, cabinet making, and the like.
(7) 
Banks, business and the professional offices.
(8) 
Public utility facilities and uses.
(9) 
Mortuary and undertaking establishments.
(10) 
Municipal, state, or federal buildings or uses.
(11) 
Printing and publishing houses.
(12) 
Restaurants, cafes, and tearooms.
(13) 
Public or private schools.
(14) 
Churches or similar places of worship including parish houses and convents.
(15) 
Hotels and motels.
(16) 
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses.
(17) 
Business identification signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the article appearing herein titled "Signs."
(18) 
All uses permitted in any residential district, provided a residential use shall be permitted only when accessory and incidental to one or more of the following permitted uses.
(19) 
Automobile service stations, automobile sales, mobile home sales, service garages, auto sales lots, automobile assembling, auto body shops, painting, upholstery reconditioning, vehicle repair or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, and welding shops.
(20) 
Bottling works and bookbinding.
(21) 
Building materials storage, lumberyards, and lumber mills.
(22) 
Carpenter, cabinetmaking, furniture repair and upholstery, electrician, metalworking, tinsmith, plumbing, gas, steam or hot water fitting shops.
(23) 
Construction, contractors equipment, sales, services, and storage.
(24) 
Laboratories and lithographing.
(25) 
Laundries, cleaning, dyeing, carpet and rug cleaning.
(26) 
Distributions plants, parcel delivery, and service industries.
(27) 
Manufacturing, compounding, processing, or treatment of such products as drug, chemical, pharmaceutical, biological, medicinal, and food products, except where the end product is fish or meat, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, or where the major process is the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
(28) 
Manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, film, fur, glass, hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell textiles, tobacco, wood, yarns, and paint not employing boiling process.
(29) 
Manufacturing of pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products, using only clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(30) 
Freight and trucking terminals.
(31) 
Electrical, optical, and textile manufacturing.
(32) 
Wholesale and retail business, warehouses, and cold storage plants.
(33) 
Customary agricultural operations, farming, nurseries, greenhouses.
B. 
The above-specified uses shall not be objectionable due to inordinate odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration, or other similar nuisances.

§ 510-48 Height regulations.

The height of a building shall be not greater than five stories or 75 feet.

§ 510-49 Yard regulations.

A. 
None required for commercial uses.
B. 
For apartment buildings of one to two stories, there shall be front, side, and rear yards of 15 feet; and for each story over two, the yards shall be increased by five feet per story.

§ 510-50 Coverage.

No restriction on commercial uses.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Art. XII of the 1967 Code, M-L Manufacturing District (Limited), which immediately followed this section, was repealed 9-27-2004 by Ord. No. 04-03.