Butte-Silver Bow County |
Code of Ordinances |
Title 17. ZONING |
Chapter 17.30. M-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ZONE |
§ 17.30.020. Permitted uses.
A.
Hereafter in the M-2 zone no building or structure shall be erected, altered, enlarged, or relocated therein which is designed or intended to be used for any use other than the following unless otherwise provided in this title:
1.
Any nonresidential use permitted in the M-1 zone;
2.
Apiaries, commercial;
3.
Bleaching powder manufacturing;
4.
Bolt and nail manufacturing;
5.
Brick and tile manufacturing;
6.
Can manufacturing and tank-coating;
7.
Cellulose manufacturing, excluding nitrates;
8.
Cesspool cleaning equipment storage;
9.
Chemical manufacturing, excluding manufacturing of explosives, ammonia, alcohol, and stove polish;
10.
Concrete block and pipe manufacturing;
11.
Concrete transit and mix plants;
12.
Die casting;
13.
Dye manufacturing;
14.
Electric power plants;
15.
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacturing;
16.
Fertilizer manufacturing and manure processing;
17.
Forging industries using drop hammers;
18.
Foundries, including iron, steel, brass, bronze, copper;
19.
Galvanizing;
20.
Gas storage, heating and chlorine;
21.
Glass manufacturing;
22.
Graphite manufacturing;
23.
Junkyards and salvage yards (including house wrecking, used lumber and salvaged building materials and parts, auto wrecking yards, auto shredding and baling, storage of scrap metals, etc.) when located not less than three hundred feet from an R or C zone or state or federal highway, and provided all activity, merchandise display and storage shall be indoors or screened by a fence, properly erected or conventional masonry, new wood and/or new wire materials having a sight-obscuring effect;
24.
Class one and class two kennels as defined in this title, when located not less than one hundred feet from an R zone;
25.
Large household appliance manufacturing;
26.
Lightweight aggregate manufacturing;
27.
Linoleum and oilcloth manufacturing;
28.
Match manufacturing;
29.
Meat canning, smoking, and curing;
30.
Oxygen gas manufacturing;
31.
Petroleum wholesale storage and distribution;
32.
Pipe manufacturing from clays or metals;
33.
Planing mills;
34.
Plastic manufacturing;
35.
Porcelain enameling works;
36.
Poultry and rabbit slaughtering; provided, that such establishments shall not be located within three hundred feet of an R zone;
37.
Printing ink manufacturing;
38.
Railroad repair shops;
39.
Refuse and garbage dumps and incinerators;
40.
Rendering of edible fats;
41.
Sand and gravel pits by a conditional use permit from the board of adjustment after a finding that such use will not be unduly detrimental to surrounding properties and that the use will not jeopardize the probable industrial use of surrounding properties through the breaking up of large industrial sites, nor of the site itself upon termination of the extraction operation. The permit shall be temporary, conditional and revocable. Conditions shall be required by the board as it may deem necessary to eliminate any hazard and any detriment to the site or surrounding properties and zone, and to restore the land so that development of the highest potential uses as indicated by this title for the site and surrounding properties and zone will not be impaired. The conditions may include a performance bond and an agreement to rehabilitate the excavation by refilling, recontouring, replacement of subsoil and topsoil, and planting of protective ground cover in order to assure the elimination of such hazard and detriment. No permit shall be issued for extraction of sand or gravel on any site within six hundred feet of any R zone, nor less than fifty from any street or adjoining property line;
42.
Sandblasting;
43.
Saltworks;
44.
Sausage manufacturing;
45.
Sawmills;
46.
Slaughterhouses;
47.
Soap manufacturing from previously prepared materials;
48.
Sodium manufacturing;
49.
Stables and the keeping of livestock other than swine;
50.
Stockyards;
51.
Stone quarries, extraction of minerals, oil, and similar uses other than sand and gravel pits; provided, that all open excavations with a slope steeper than one foot vertical for every two feet horizontal, or which has water therein, shall be enclosed by an eight-foot fence;
52.
Tanning;
53.
Tobacco treatment, except chewing tobacco;
54.
Uses similar to those mentioned above, may be permitted, subject to the approval of the zoning officer;
55.
Vegetable oil manufacturing;
56.
Vinegar manufacturing;
57.
Wool pulling and scouring;
58.
Yeast manufacturing;
59.
Other uses permitted under supplementary use regulations in Sections 17.38.170 through 17.38.240, and accessory uses, buildings, and structures appurtenant to any other permitted uses listed above in this section. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as permitting temporary or permanent residences in the M-2 zone, except that caretakers or owners of the business may have a residence on the premises.
B.
Exceptions. The provisions of this title shall not apply to any operation or use which is subject to review by the State Department of Lands with regard to any mining plan, permit or contract or to any operation of use which is subject to review by the State Department of Natural Resources and Conservation with regard to a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need. However, when a person applies to either the State Department of Lands or the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for a permit, that person shall notify the council of commissioners by letter of such action at the time of submitting this application.
A mining area is a designated area of land where mining operations have occurred in the past, are presently occurring, or may occur in the future.
C.
Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as permitting any temporary or permanent residences within an M-2 zone. Existing residential uses shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.48, Nonconforming uses.
(Ord. 602 § 1 (part), 1998; Ord. 456 § 7, 1993; Ord. 225 § 1(F), 1985; Ord. 135 § 1(w)—(z), 1981; Ord. 105 § 1, 1980; Ord. 53 § 140-2, 1978)
(Ord. No. 11-3, § 5, 5-4-2011)