The purpose of the limited industrial district, M-3, is to provide for a wide variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing and warehousing uses appropriately located for access by highways and providing a controlled environment within which signing is limited. Uses are to be conducted in completely enclosed buildings. Density of ground coverage and height of buildings is low, and a moderate amount of landscaping is required. In order to preserve the land for industry, to reduce extraneous traffic, and avoid future conflicts between industry and other uses, business and service uses are limited primarily to those which will be useful to employees in the district and future residential uses are restricted.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.1)

In the M-3 industrial district, buildings to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Retail and service establishments as follows:

a.

Banks and savings and loan offices.

b.

Business and office supply establishments.

c.

Clinics, medical or dental.

d.

Day care center.

e.

Employment service or agency.

f.

Offices and office buildings, studios and the like, business, professional or administrative.

g.

Security service office or station.

(2)

Generally, light manufacturing uses are similar to those listed below which do not create any more danger to health and safety in surrounding areas and which do not create any more offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, lint, odor, heat, glare, or electrical impulse than that which is generally associated with light industries of the types specifically permitted below:

a.

Manufacture or assembly of spacecraft or component parts, medical and dental equipment, drafting, optical and musical instruments, watches, clocks, toys, games, electrical or electronic apparatus, and communication equipment.

b.

Manufacture or assembly of boats, bolts, buttons, nuts, screws and rivets, firearms, photographic and metering equipment, electrical appliances, tools, dies, machinery and hardware products, sheet metal products, heating, cooling and ventilating equipment and vitreous enameled products.

c.

Beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, candy manufacture, tobacco products, dairy products and ice cream, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, meat and poultry products, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of poultry or animals, or processing or bulk storage of grain or feeds for animals or poultry.

d.

Manufacture of rugs, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, shoes and leather products, printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.

e.

Manufacture of boxes, furniture, cabinets, baskets and other wood products of similar nature.

f.

Compounding of cosmetics, toiletries, drugs and pharmaceutical products.

g.

Molding of candles and soap.

h.

Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products, from previously pulverized clay, and in kilns fired only by smokeless furnaces.

In cases of doubt regarding the nature of a process or use, the administrator may require an engineering report describing the process or use and the probable impact thereof at property lines in terms of the factors listed above or other significant factors as may be associated with a particular process or use.

(3)

Agriculture and forestry as permitted in the A-2 agricultural district.

(4)

Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises.

(5)

Data processing center.

(6)

Exterminating establishment.

(7)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communication service, and pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, and substations which are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(8)

Janitorial service establishments.

(9)

Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, but not testing explosives.

(10)

Motion picture studio.

(11)

Nursery for growing or propagation of plants, trees and shrubs.

(12)

Printing, publishing and engraving establishment, photographic processing, blueprinting, photocopying and similar uses.

(13)

Private club.

(14)

Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings except those which have been approved as part of the subdivision plan, with a conditional use permit.

(15)

Radio or television broadcasting studios and offices, but not transmission and receiving towers of height greater than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet.

(16)

Railroad spur tracks.

(17)

Sign fabricating and painting.

(18)

Telephone exchange or switching facility.

(19)

Tire rebuilding or recapping.

(20)

Trade or business school, but not involving heavy duty construction equipment or similar machinery or vehicles.

(21)

Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouse or distribution center but not a truck or freight terminal or truck stop.

(22)

Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427 of this chapter.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.2; Ord. of 9-23-02(2))

Accessory uses permitted in the M-3 district are as follows:

(1)

Any accessory use permitted in the A-2 agricultural district.

(2)

Coin-operated vending machines for food, tobacco, ice, soft drinks, and sundries inside a building and primarily for the use of occupants thereof.

(3)

Retail and service facilities inside a building primarily for the use of occupants thereof and occupants of other buildings in the industrial development. Retail and service facilities may include barber shops, beauty parlors, dining rooms, newsstands, restaurants, cafeterias and retail stores for wearing apparel, books, beverages, tobacco, drugs and sundries.

(4)

Signs as regulated in section 18-349 hereunder.

(5)

Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment or goods normally carried in stock, used or produced in connection with a permitted office, business, commercial or industrial use subject to applicable district regulations.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.3)

Signs permitted in the M-3 district are subject to the general sign regulations of article XV, consisting of accessory illuminated or nonilluminated signs as follows:

(1)

Any sign permitted in the A-2 agricultural district.

(2)

Flat signs limited in area to two hundred (200) square feet, one (1) for each street frontage or one (1) for each industrial building on the premises.

(3)

A detached sign, limited in area to one hundred (100) square feet and limited in height to thirty (30) feet.

(4)

Directional signs of any type, limited in area to ten (10) square feet, in such number and in such locations as required for proper management of the premises. Such signs shall not be included in any computation of sign area.

(5)

A sign limited in area to one hundred (100) square feet and limited in height to fifteen (15) feet giving the name and/or address of management of a planned industrial subdivision.

(6)

Signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport, or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.4; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

The minimum lot area in the M-3 district shall be one (1) acre.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.5)

Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, the minimum lot frontage in the M-3 district shall be twenty-five (25) feet.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.6)

Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, the minimum lot width in the M-3 district shall be one hundred fifty (150) feet.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.7)

All structures:

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.8)

No building in the M-3 district shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.9)

Buildings and their accessory buildings in an M-3 district may cover not more than fifty (50) percent of the area of the lot.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.10)

(a)

Compatibility with nearby properties. Any development within the district shall be designed to promote harmonious relationships with surrounding adjacent and nearby properties, developed and undeveloped, and to this end may employ such design techniques as may be appropriate to a particular case, including location of permitted elements, orientation, spacing and setback of buildings, maintenance of natural vegetation, location of access points, size and location of signs, open spaces and parking areas, grading, landscaping and servicing.

(b)

Similar uses permitted. Other manufacturing uses which, in the opinion of the administrator, are of the same general character as those permitted uses listed above shall be permitted. All uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable or offensive conditions at property line boundaries by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, wastes, fire or explosion.

(c)

Enclosed buildings. All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building of permanent and durable construction, with no open storage of raw, in process, or finished material and supplies or waste material. Finished or semi-finished products manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened from the street or from a residential district by landscaping, fences or walls.

(d)

Landscaping. Any part of the front yard not used for parking or accessways, shall be landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs or pedestrian walks.

(e)

Drainage. Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement. Provision shall be made for protection against erosion and sedimentation in accord with applicable county ordinances.

(f)

Fencing. All fencing shall have a uniform and durable character and shall be properly maintained.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.11)

Off-street parking and loading design standards and space requirements for particular uses are contained in article XV.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-12.12; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))