12.34.020 M-2 heavy manufacturing district.
(a) Primary Purpose and Characteristics. The M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District is intended to provide for manufacturing and industrial development of a more general nature than in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing District in those areas where the relationship to surrounding land use would create fewer problems of compatibility. Such districts should not normally abut directly upon residential districts nor be less than 10 acres in area. All uses in the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District shall comply with the performance standards set forth in sections 12.11.010 through 12.11.040 of this ordinance. All new structures and uses and changes or additions to existing structures and uses shall be in compliance with the site plan review requirements of this ordinance (See Section 12.08.020). (8/6/02)
It is recognized that it is neither possible nor practicable to list all of the principal and accessory uses that are compatible with those listed below and therefore, it is intended that the following list of principal and accessory uses only be illustrative. Any individual aggrieved by a failure to list a particular principal or accessory use in this subsection shall have the right to file a petition with the Kenosha County Department of Planning and Development pursuant to section 12.55 of this ordinance for a determination as to the similarity of the intended use with the principal and accessory uses listed below.
(b) Principal Uses (4/18/00). In addition to those industrial and office uses permitted in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing District (together with M-1 district ancillary uses), the processing, manufacturing and/or storage of the following shall constitute principal uses permitted in the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District:
1. Aircraft and parts
2. Aluminum, primary production
3. Aluminum, rolling, drawing and extruding
4. Asphalt, felts and coating
5. Automobile manufacturing
6. Batteries
7. Bedding
8. Biological products
9. Blast furnaces, steel works, and the rolling of ferrous metals
10. Bleach
11. Bone
12. Bottling of alcoholic beverages
13. Brass works
14. Brick and structural clay tile
15. Candles
16. Canneries
17. Carbon black
18. Carpeting
19. Celluloid
20. Cement
21. Ceramic floor and wall tile
22. Charcoal
23. Clay Building Material and Refractories
24. Coal-tar
25. Coke
26. Coding, engraving and allied services
27. Cold, rolled steel sheets, strips and burrs
28. Cold storage warehouses, commercial service facility
29. Communications equipment
30. Concrete and concrete products
31. Condensories
32. Construction and prefabrication of wood buildings and structures, mobile homes and construction of wooden containers
33. Construction, mining, and materials handling machinery and equipment
34. Copper, drawing and extruding
35. Copper, primary smelting and refining
36. Cordage
37. Creameries
38. Cutlery, hand tools, and general hardware
39. Dextrin
40. Disinfectant
41. Electrical lighting and wiring equipment
42. Electrical industrial apparatus
43. Electrical transmission and distribution equipment
44. Electro metallurgical products
45. Electronic components and accessories
46. Engines and turbines
47. Excelsior
48. Farm machinery and equipment
49. Feed Mills
50. Felt
51. Fine earthenware, table and kitchen articles
52. Fish by-products
53. Food locker plants
54. Fur dressing and dying furs
55. Gelatin
56. Glass manufacturing
57. Glue and gelatin
58. Guns and related equipment
59. Gypsum products
60. Hair products
61. Heating apparatus and plumbing fixtures
62. Household appliances
63. Ice
64. Ink, printing
65. Lime
66. Lime products
67. Linoleum, asphalt-base and other hard surface floor coverings
68. Lithographing
69. Matches
70. Meat (frozen storage)
71. Metal cans
72. Metal products, fabricated structural
73. Metal stamping
74. Metal working machinery
75. Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment
76. Motorcycles, bicycles and parts
77. Musical and sound equipment
78. Nonferrous metals, rolling, drawing and extruding
79. Nonferrous wire, drawing and insulating
80. Office, computing and accounting machines
81. Oil cloth
82. Paper
83. Pea viners
84. Perfume, cosmetics and other toilet preparations
85. Pharmaceutical preparations
86. Plaster of paris
87. Polish
88. Porcelain electrical supplies
89. Potash
90. Pulp
91. Pyroxylin
92. Radio and television receiving sets
93. Railroad equipment
94. Reclaiming rubber, metal, paper and other resources
95. Rope
96. Rubber products
97. Screw machine products and bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and washers
98. Service industry machines
99. Shoddy
100. Shoe and ramp blacking
101. Signaling and fire control equipment
102. Size
103. Soap and detergents
104. Special cleaning, polishing and sanitation preparations
105. Starch
106. Steel wire drawing, and steel rails and spikes
107. Sugar
108. Textile and Fabric Finishing Mills
109. Tires and innertubes
110. Tool and die making
111. Trade and contractor offices
112. Vitreous china plumbing fixtures, china, earthenware fittings and bathroom fixtures
113. Warehousing
114. Weaving
115. Wire products, fabrication
116. Wood pressing
(c) Accessory Uses.
1. Garages for storage of vehicles used in conjunction with the operation of the industry
2. Offices, storage, power supply, and other uses normally auxiliary to the principal industrial operations
3. Off-street parking and loading areas
4. Retail stores and service facilities, such as retail outlet stores, surplus goods stores, and restaurants and food service facilities when established in conjunction with the permitted manufacturing or processing facility
5. Small wind energy systems
6. Solar energy system
7. Wholesale stores
(d) Conditional Uses (see also section 12.40.080) (8/6/02). In addition to those industrial conditional uses permitted in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing District, the following shall constitute conditional uses in the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District:
1. Abrasives
2. Animal reduction
3. Bus terminals and related equipment storage and maintenance buildings
4. Chemicals determined to be nontoxic by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Kenosha County Office of Emergency Services
5. Coal and bone distillation
6. Concrete and asphalt batch plants
8. Dye
9. Electrical and steam generating plants
10. Fertilizer production, sales, storage, mixing and blending. Said fertilizers shall be determined to be nontoxic by the Kenosha County Office of Emergency Services.
11. Flea Markets
12. Forges
13. Foundries
14. Fuel
15. Gasohol and fuel-related alcohol plants
16. Insulating materials determined to be nontoxic by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Kenosha County Office of Emergency Services
17. Laboratories
18. Lacquer, paint, stain
19. Large wind energy system
20. Livestock sale facilities
21. Living quarters for watchmen or caretakers
22. Lubricating oils and grease
23. Manufacturing, processing and storage of building materials, explosives, dry ice, fat, flammables, glue, grains, grease, lard, plastic, radioactive materials, shellac, soap, tires, turpentine, vinegar and yeast
24. Meat packing, slaughterhouse and production of sausages and other meat products
25. Motor Freight
26. Offal
27. Outside storage and manufacturing
28. Plastic materials and synthetic resins, synthetic rubber, and synthetic and other man-made fibers and products
29. Power and heat generating plants
30. Production of animal and marine fats and oils
31. Production of shortening, table oils, margarine, and other edible fats and oils
32. Railroad terminals and freight yards
33. Refineries
34. Rendering plants
35. Road test facilities
36. Salvage yards
37. Sewage treatment plants
38. Ship and boat building and repair
39. Smelting and refining of all metals and alloys
40. Stockyards
41. Tanneries
42. Utility substations
43. Towing with outside storage
(e) Lot Area and Width.
1. Lots shall have a minimum area of 40,000 square feet, and
2. All such lots shall have a frontage of not less than 150 feet in width
(f) Building Height and Area.
1. No building or parts of a building shall exceed 60 feet in height
2. No maximum or minimum building area shall be required in the M-2 district due to the variety of uses within this district and the diverse building demands of each use.
(g) Yards.
1. Street yard - not less than 65 feet from the right-of-way of all Federal, State and County Trunk highways and not less than 40 feet from the right-of-way of all other roads. (8/6/02)
2. Shore yard - not less than 75 feet from the ordinary high water mark of any navigable water. (11/5/86)
3. Side yard - not less than 25 feet in width on each side of all structures.
4. Rear yard - not less than 25 feet
(h) Authorized Sanitary Sewer Systems.
1. Public sanitary sewer
3. Holding tank on lots of record created prior to July 1, 1980 [Code § 12.23-2.]