Village of Plover
M-2-Heavy Manufacturing District

M2	HEAVY MANUFACTURING DISTRICT

PURPOSE. The M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District is established to provide for those manufacturing or other industrial uses having more intensity than the M-1 District. It is intended that this District generally be located distant from non-manufacturing uses; that it be buffered by the M-1 District or by major highways, rivers, open space or high intensity commercial uses; and that all M-2 Districts be located consistent with the Village Comprehensive Plan.

PERMITTED USES.
(a) Railroad yards, switching yards, repair facilities, roundhouses, administrative offices and other related rail facilities.
(b) Manufacturing and sale of products, primarily from wood, including furniture products.
(c) Manufacturing, bottling and distribution of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages.
(d) Truck terminals, municipal garages and shop facilities.
(e) Paper product manufacturers.
(f) Brick, tile and terra cotta manufacturing.
(g) Plastic manufacturers.
(h) Warehouses except self-storage facilities.
(i) Sheet metal, body and machine shops.
(j) Metal fabrication.
(k) Wholesale distributors.
(l) Manufacturing and assembling of motor vehicle parts.
(m) Pallet manufacturing.
(n) Preparation, assembly and packaging of foods.
(o) Brick, stone sales and storage.
(p) Flammable liquids storage to be used in conjunction with a permitted use.
(q) Any permitted use in the M-1 District.

CONDITIONAL USES. (Rep. & Recr. #7-11-87)
(a) Private or public sanitary landfills.
(b) Asphalt batch plants.
(c) Petroleum products manufacturing, refining or storing.
(d) Chemical manufacturing.
(e) Municipal utility substations, structures and facilities.
(f) Non-municipal utility substations, structures or facilities.
(g) Meat packing or processing plants.
(h) Other manufacturing, processing or storage uses determined by the Plan Commission and the Village Board to be generally similar to the permitted uses of this District and to be consistent with the Village Comprehensive Plan.
(i) Wholesale gasoline, sales and storage.
(j) Sand and gravel pits.
(k) Solid waste transfer facilities.
(l) Storage and distribution of petroleum components.
(m) Refining, processing, smelting of mineral or ores.
(n) Single-family dwellings, housing custodian, watchman or caretaker and his family, whose employment is directly related to a permitted use of this District.
(o) Wastewater disposal plant.
(p) Paint manufacturers.
(q) Coal sales and storage.
(r) Any conditional use in the M-1 District.
(s) Wind generators or windmill towers.
(t) Junk, iron or rag storage or baling where the premises upon which such activities conducted are wholly enclosed within a building, wall or fence not less than 8 feet high completely obscuring the activity, including automobile, tractor or machinery wrecking or used parts yards.
(u) Circus, carnival or similar transient enterprises.
(v) Municipal structures and facilities.
(w) Municipal Police Firing Range.
(x) Automobile salvage where the premises upon which such activities conducted are wholly enclosed within a building, wall or fence not less than 8 feet in height, completely obscuring the activity including tractor and machinery wrecking or used parts yards.
(y) Concrete ready-mix plants and distribution activities.
(z) Manufacturing, storage and sale of concrete products.
(aa) Fertilizer mixing, blending, bagging, storage and sales.

MINIMUM STANDARDS.
(a) Parking and Loading Requirements. See Secs. 17.34 and 17.35 of this chapter.
(b) Signs. (Am. Ord. #15-97) See ch. 23 of this Code.
(c) Other Standards. Minimum Standards for the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing District.

USE	LOT AREA	LOT AREA PER FAMILY	LOT WIDTH	HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE	SIDE YARD	STREET SETBACK	REAR YARD
All building or uses	1/2 acre	10,000 Sq. ft.	150 Ft.	50 Ft. or up to 125 Ft. if such use has an automatic sprinkler or other fire prevention systems approved by the Village Fire Dept.	20 Ft. each side yard and 30 Ft. for side yard adjoin- ing any "R" District	40 Ft.	20 Ft. if 3 stories or less and for each story or fraction thereof such rear yard shall be increased 5 Ft.

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