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Wauseon City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1131

M-2 General Industrial District

1131.01 USE REGULATIONS.

   Building and land shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained, in whole or in part, in any General Industrial District only for the uses set forth in the following regulations.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)

1131.02 PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES.

   (a)   Office, laboratories, production, distribution and service uses permitted in any Light Industrial District. All other business, service, institutional, and residential uses are not permitted.
 
   (b)   Manufacturing processes conducted wholly within an enclosed building, including cutting, forging, stamping, casing, extrusion, drilling, machining, welding, brazing, soldering, sawing, cleaning, shot and sand blasting, grinding, sheet metal painting, enameling, painting, galvanizing finishing, heat-treating and rust proofing, as a component process in connection with the production and assembly of the products, the assembly and/or manufacturing of automobiles, automobile bodies, parts and accessories.
 
   (c)   Metal production: Cutting, electric, gas and ultrasonic welding, grinding, machining and finishing as incidental component operations, (but not as a single operation) only in the production and/or assembly of product which have a high value in relation to bulk, such as automotive and aircraft parts; electrical fixtures and electronic equipment, motors, lamps, fixtures and clocks, hardware, cutlery and kitchen utensils, musical and scientific instruments; lathes, presses, stamping machines, woodworking machines and screw machines, sporting goods, athletic equipment and toys.
 
   (d)   Transportation services: The storage and maintenance of trucks, and loading and unloading equipment for the purpose of transporting materials and equipment upon highways in general.
 
   (e)   Airports and related activities.
 
   (f)   Grain elevators and feed mills.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)
 
   (g)   Adult Business Establishments, per Section 1130.03(c).
(Ord. 1998-17. Passed 9-8-98.)

1131.03 CONDITIONAL USES.

   (a)   Manufacturing of acid, derivatives, ammunition, cement, chlorine, gelatine and the distillation of wood, coal and other distillers;
 
   (b)   Natural gas and oil petroleum wells;
 
   (c)   The blending, mixing and packaging of disinfectants, fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, ink, soap, detergents and related household and industrial chemical compounds, but excluding the manufacture of primary chemicals or chemical compounds;
 
   (d)   Making of ferrous metal and metal alloy products from brass, pewter, tin, lead or aluminum and the smelting or founding of such materials;
 
   (e)   The development of natural resources, including the extraction of sand, gravel, fill, dirt, topsoil and stone;
 
   (f)   Any junkyard which is effectively screened on all sides by means of walls, fences or plantings. Walls or fences shall be a minimum of ten feet in height with no advertising thereon. In lieu of such walls or fence, a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than eight feet in height may be substituted. Storage of materials shall not exceed the height of the screening.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)

1131.04 ACCESSORY USES PERMITTED.

   (a)   Storage of materials and products in processes clearly accessory to the main use when contained or stored within a building;
(Ord. 2002-3. Passed 4-15-02.)
 
   (b)   Off-street parking and loading facilities as required and set forth in Chapter 1140 of this Zoning Code;
 
   (c)   Signs, as set forth in The Sign Ordinance of the City of Wauseon.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)

1131.05 AREA, HEIGHT, BULK AND PLACEMENT.

   Area, height, bulk and placement requirements unless otherwise specified, are in accordance with Chapter 1132.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90.)