10-6-1 Purpose and Objectives

1. The Manufacturing Zone (M) is established to provide areas in the City where light manufacturing firms can engage in processing, assembling, manufacturing, warehousing and storage; and for incidental service facilities and public facilities to serve the manufacturing area. The Zone is intended to encourage sound development, subject to regulations necessary to assure the orderly growth of the City and the protection of residential and commercial land uses from noise and other disturbances. 2. This Zone is to be characterized by relatively flat, open land suited for industrial uses because of proximity to major transportation routes and the availability of utilities necessary for successful manufacturing or processes. The area in which this Zone will be applied may provide for land reserves for industrial and manufacturing uses. 3. Representative of the uses within the Zone are light manufacturing, fabrication, processing, storage warehousing and wholesale distribution. Uses which generate excessive noise, vibration, smoke, odor, dust, fumes or danger of explosion have been excluded from this Zone. 4. The basic objectives of the M Zone are: a. To provide space for light manufacturing and processing uses within the City in an appropriate location and to discourage uses from locating within this Zone which will tend to deteriorate the light manufacturing environment and thwart the use of the land for light industrial purposes. b. To broaden the tax base and improve the economic base of the community. c. To promote new industry, to the end that the economic and social well-being of the City and its inhabitants shall be enhanced. 10-6-2: d. To discourage the undesirable mixture of incompatible commercial, industrial and residential uses. (Ord. 2000-4-12, 4-12-2000) Permitted and Conditional Uses The following uses or categories, including but not limited to, are permitted in the Manufacturing Zone (M): 1. Permitted Principal Uses: The following principal uses and structures, are permitted in the M Zone: • Carpenter, cabinet shop • Laboratory • Manufacture/maintenance • Office, business and/or professional • Veterinary • Wholesale business • Garage, public • Machine shop • Motor vehicles shop/business • Parking lot • Warehouse and storage 2. Permitted Accessory Uses: Accessory and uses and structures are permitted in the M Zone, provided they are incidental to and do not substantially alter the character of the permitted principal uses or structures. Such permitted accessory uses, and structures include, but are not limited to, the following: a. An accessory dwelling unit (ADU), as part of an existing single family home and consistent with the provisions of Moroni City Code 10-8-20. b. Accessory buildings such as garages, carports, equipment storage buildings and supply storage buildings which are customarily used in conjunction with and incidental to a principal use or structure permitted in the M Zone. c. Temporary storage of materials used for the construction of a building, including a contractor’s office; provided, that such use be located on the building site or immediately adjacent thereto; and provided further, that such use shall be permitted only during the construction period and thirty (30) days thereafter. d. All detached buildings or structures, including carports or shipping storage containers, must meet the following requirements: i. Must be located behind the front wall plane of the principal structure for non- corner lots. ii. For corner lots, an accessory building may be located in the side yard provided it is placed behind the front wall plane of the principal structure. The accessory building must not encroach into the required front setback of the lot. While it may be adjacent to the side road, it must still comply with all applicable side and rear yard setbacks. iii. Accessory buildings, including carports, may be attached or detached to the existing principle building or any other structure, in accordance with applicable fire and building codes, including provisions for fire walls. iv. Accessory buildings or structures must meet the following requirements: 1. Must be set back at least 5 feet from property lines unless firewalls are provided for walls which lay closest and parallel to property lines, as approved by the building inspector or designee 2. The roof must be no taller than 12 feet tall at the property lines and may slope higher at the maximum rate of 1 vertical foot per horizontal foot away from the property line. Buildings taller than 12 feet must be set back from property lines at least 1 foot for every foot above 12 foot in height. v. Exceptions to this setback requirement for height may be granted by the Planning Commission if all adjoining property owners agree to the proposed height in writing. vi. Accessory buildings or structures over 200 square feet in area must have a building permit and comply with all requirements of this ordinance and the building and fire codes. vii. Private garages and accessory buildings located less than 5 foot from the property line must also meet the following: 1. the roof shall not project across the property line; 2. storm water runoff from the building shall not flow onto adjacent property. 3. the building shall not be placed over any designated easements. viii. Accessory buildings shall not provide living quarters nor act as a dwelling unit or an accessory apartment to the primary building. 3. Conditional Uses: The following, including but not limited to, uses and structures are permitted in the M Zone only after a conditional use permit has been issued by the Planning Commission, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof: • Building material sales yard • Construction of buildings to be sold and moved off the premises • Draying, freighting or trucking yard/terminal • Foundry, casting light-weight nonferrous metal without causing noxious odors/fumes • Public and quasi-public use • Welding shop (Ord. 2000-4-12, 4-1 2-2000)