The regulations set forth in this article shall apply in the Heavy Industrial District. The purpose of the M-H District is to permit the normal operations of almost all industries, subject only to those regulations needed to control congestion; manage traffic circulation; provide fire and natural hazard protection; protect the surrounding areas or adjoining premises; and protect industrial areas from intrusion by nonindustrial activities. A differentiation is made yards; in the M-H District between uses allowed by right and those allowed by use permit. Uses requiring use permits have a greater potential for negative impacts to the health, safety, and general welfare of the neighborhood. Conditioning and monitoring such uses will ensure their compatibility with the area.

(§ I, Ord. 86-2, eff. February 27, 1986)

The following uses shall be permitted in the M-H District:

(a)

Any use permitted by right in the M-L or M M District, except that activities confined to buildings in such zones shall not be so confined in the M-H District;

(b)

Canneries and agricultural processing;

(c)

Creameries and milk bottling or distributing stations;

(d)

Storage elevators;

(e)

Truck terminals and truck storage;

(f)

Ice manufacturing and cold storage;

(g)

Manufacturing or assembly of aircraft, auto mobiles, boilers, engines, motors and generators, mobile homes, trailers, railroad equipment, and other products which require the use of heavy machinery;

(h)

Dyeing establishments;

(i)

Bottlers, distilleries, and wineries;

(j)

Metal, glass, and paper recycling plants; and

(k)

Fertilizer production.

(§ I, Ord. 86-2, eff. February 27, 1986)

Subject to obtaining a use permit, the following uses shall be permitted in the M-H District:

(a)

Junk yards, wrecking yards, and automobile dismantling;

(b)

Distillation of bones and fat rendering;

(c)

Foundries and smelting of ore;

(d)

Manufacturing of acid, alcohol, ammonia, asphalt, plastic, rubber cellulose, cement, coal, dyes, explosives, fertilizer, fireworks, glass, tar, paint, plaster, gypsum, flammable fluids or gases, and hazardous chemicals, including acetylene, carbide, caustic soda, chlorine, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, and industrial gases;

(e)

Commercial excavations of stone or earth materials;

(f)

Drilling for or the removal of oil or gas;

(g)

Dumping, disposal, or reduction of garbage, sewage, offal, dead animals, incineration, or refuse;

(h)

Airstrips or heliports;

(i)

Commercial feed yards and animal sales

(j)

Storage of flammables;

(k)

Concrete or asphalt batching plants;

(l)

Tanneries;

(m)

Racetracks for motorized and non-motorized vehicles, including bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, and similar vehicles (specifically excluding animal racing),

(n)

Power generation plants, all energy sources, including biomass;

(o)

Sawmills and pulp and paper mills;

(p)

Commercial hog raising and poultry raising;

(q)

Caretakers' residences provided the permitted use requires the continuous supervision of a caretaker, superintendent, or security person and the residence is to be occupied only by such person and his or her family;

(r)

Retail establishments of a nature designed principally to serve surrounding industrial uses, such as restaurants and gasoline/diesel fueling stations;

(s)

Slaughterhouses; and

(t)

In addition to the uses listed above, the uses listed in Article 15, General Provisions, may also be permitted, subject to the issuance of a use permit.

(§ I, Ord. 86-2, eff. February 27, 1986, as amended by § I, Ord. 94-07, eff. April 14, 1994)