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Section 8 . 3 . 6

Light Industrial and Manufacturing Industrial

Jonathan Watson

The “L: Light Industrial District” is intended to be a transitional zone between less intense districts such as business and commercial and the heavier “M: Manufacturing Industrial District.” As such:

The L: Light Industrial District is established to provide for development of office/warehouse,warehouse/  distribution, wholesale, assembly and manufacturing or processing facilities which are clean, quiet, free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, or glare. Permitted uses in this district tend to generate heavy traffic, require extensive community facilities, and may require limited amounts of outdoor storage.[1]

Many of the same uses one finds in the “C: Commercial District” also show up in the “L” district, in addition to others. For example, this district includes bus stations, boat showrooms, fuel sales, greenhouses, exterminating shops, machinery sales, medical and dental clinics, printing, commercial parking lots, radar installations and towers, radio and television studios, trade schools, and weighing stations.

The “M: Manufacturing Industrial District” is similar to the “L” district, but it includes operations which may have large amounts of outdoor operation or storage. The “M” district includes all those uses in “L,” in addition to: “any establishment engaged in production, processing, assembly, disassembly, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair, or storage of materials, goods, or services”[2] It may also include landfills, recycling processing centers, and trailer sales and rentals.

[1] St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, § 154.195.

[2] St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, § 154.211.

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