Stonycreek Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VII
Light Manufacturing District
§ 155-23 Light Manufacturing District.
Within the light manufacturing zones, the following regulations shall apply:
A.
Permitted uses. The permitted uses in a Light Manufacturing District shall be as follows:
(1)
Agricultural activities, including greenhouse and nursery.
(2)
Animal hospital and dog kennel.
(3)
Automobile repair, major.
(4)
Bakery.
(5)
Bottling work.
(6)
Building material yards or establishment.
(7)
Cabinetmaking establishments and carpenter shops.
(8)
Clothing factory.
(9)
Contractors' yard.
(10)
Dairy.
(11)
Dry-cleaning plant.
(12)
Dwelling (minimum requirements referred to R-3).
(13)
Dyeing plant.
(14)
Feed yard.
(15)
Fruit canning and packing establishment.
(16)
Ice plant.
(17)
Laundry.
(18)
Machine shop.
(19)
Milk distribution station.
(20)
Optical goods factory.
(21)
Paper box factory.
(22)
Pencil factory.
(23)
Printing, publication and engraving plant.
(24)
Research and development organization.
(25)
Sheet metal shop.
(26)
Steel fabrication.
(27)
Storage film.
(28)
Trucking terminal.
(29)
Welding shop.
(30)
Wholesale business.
(31)
Any other compatible type manufacturing-light industrial.
(32)
A single mobile home used as a dwelling for a watchman of an industry on the same site, provided that lot size is two acres and the mobile home is connected to public water and either public sewers or approved on-lot system. The minimum floor area shall be 400 square feet and shall not exceed 700 square feet.
(33)
Accessory use of building customarily incidental to the above uses and as regulated by this chapter.
B.
D.
Lot size. The minimum lot size for all light manufacturing buildings hereafter erected or altered shall be one acre, a minimum width at building line of 100 feet.
E.
Percentage of coverage. All buildings shall not cover more than 60% of the lot area.
H.
Conditions of use. In addition to the site plan requirements in Article IV, § 155-14, the following regulations shall apply:
(1)
Traffic study.
(a)
Said study shall include a comparative analysis of present capacity of street(s) adjacent to the proposed development, together with necessary points of access to off-street parking and loading. Traffic data available from the Highway Department may be utilized provided that such data is deemed current by the Planning Commission.
(b)
Said study shall include a circulation plan for all streets in the vicinity, existing and proposed, which will show the recommendations for controlling, signalizing, channelizing, storing, warning and directing traffic.
(2)
Landscape and site development plan, to include:
(a)
A plan of landscape development which shall include, among other considerations, an area of at least five feet in width along all streets, with the exception of approved entrances, to be planted and maintained with trees, shrubbery or other landscaped material or an ornamental fence or wall to serve as a visual screen for parking areas and loading or servicing areas.
(b)
A buffer area consisting of suitable landscaping maintained wherever the proposed business abuts an R District.
(c)
The location, arrangement, size and effect of all outdoor advertising or other signs and lighting proposed to be erected.
(3)
Architecture. Architectural plans of the buildings and structures showing that the project has a unified design which will be in character and proper relationship to the surrounding areas shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for recommendation and approval.
(4)
Other permits. Any required state or federal agency approvals or permits shall be obtained before applying for a building or occupancy permit.