Chapter 18.50
USE REGULATION FOR “C-M” COMMERCIAL-MANUFACTURING DISTRICT

Sections:

18.50.010    General regulations.

18.50.010 General regulations.

The “C-M” commercial-manufacturing district is designed to provide for uses, with exterior storage or industrial character, which due to their size and nature would not be compatible with general rural development patterns of Black Hawk County. The district is further designed to permit the normal operation of all industries, subject to prescribed regulation needed to control congestion and to protect nonindustrial uses. Since this is the least restrictive of any district, many uses are permissible which involve hazardous operations or circumstances, or create conditions or effects which, if not properly managed, could be unhealthy, offensive or injurious to workers or the public at large. For this reason and because the performance standards set forth in this chapter provide only limited control, it is necessary that any application for “C-M” district be heavily scrutinized for proper spatial relationship to adjoining districts with respect to prevailing winds, traffic patterns, service facilities such as sewer, water, roads and public safety (police, fire and emergency response), compatibility with surrounding land uses, and other similar considerations. This district is not to be utilized to accommodate major subdivisions, unless public sanitary sewer and public water are available or may be extended at the time of development. All such subdivisions shall comply with the subdivision ordinance and the “Procedural Guidelines for Subdivision Platting in the Unincorporated Areas of Black Hawk County.”

In the “C-M” commercial-manufacturing district, the following provisions, regulations, and restrictions shall apply:

A. Principal Permitted Uses. Any of the following uses, provided they are adjacent to and served by a paved road:

1. Any use permitted in the “C” commercial district.

2. Agricultural retail/service outlets and farm implement establishments for display, hire and sales (excluding auctions), including repair work clearly incidental and secondary to the primary use.

3. Animal hospital, veterinary clinic or commercial kennel, providing an exercising runway shall be at least 660 feet from any “R” district, incorporated boundary line or dwelling other than the lessee or owner of the site.

4. Cabinet manufacturing.

5. Dairy retail store.

6. Distribution, storage, or manufacture of food products.

7. Exterminator sales.

8. Garages for general motor vehicle repair, but not including major body and fender work or overall painting and upholstering.

9. Gasoline or convenience store with a service station, but does not include body repair or used parts wrecking and storage.

10. Hatcheries.

11. Commercial laundries.

12. Machine shop.

13. Monument sales yard.

14. Wholesale warehouse or storage warehouse/business including mini-storage.

B. Height Regulations. Shall be those specified in BHCC 18.70.210.

C. Water and Sewer Systems. Subject to the approval of the County Department of Health.

D. Minimum Lot Area, Lot Frontage and Yard Requirements for “C-M” Commercial-Manufacturing District. Shall be those specified in BHCC 18.70.210.

E. Sign and Parking Regulations. See Chapters 18.100 and 18.90 BHCC, respectively.

F. Use Exceptions. In accordance with BHCC 18.130.040, none of the following uses shall be established or reconstructed, structurally altered, enlarged or moved unless the Board of Adjustment approves the issuance of a conditional use permit.

1. Clothes dry cleaning and/or dyeing establishments using flammable cleaning fluids with a flash point higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Milk processing or distributing station other than a retail business conducted on the premises.

3. Sales auctions such as automotive, farm equipment, livestock, furniture/appliances and similar uses.

4. Tire shop, including vulcanizing and retreading.

5. Public airport.

6. Asphalt plants.

7. Coal, coke, wood, and other raw material storage yards.

8. Concrete mixing and concrete products manufacturing.

9. Rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

10. Blacksmith or cooperage works.

11. Enameling, lacquering, or japanning.

12. Bulk storage and pumping of agricultural chemicals and fertilizers.

13. Foundry casting lightweight metals, to include smelting of tin, copper, zinc, or iron ores.

14. Auto body repair shop, but does not include parts wrecking and storage.

15. Hide tanning.

16. Junk, salvage, or scrap metal yards. Junk, metal or rags, storage or baling, where the premises upon which such activities are conducted are wholly enclosed within a building, wall or solid fence, not less than six feet in height, completely obscuring the activity. Such junk yards must comply with the 50-foot setback requirements for all junk and scrap metal and must screen such material from any road.

17. Laboratories, experimental, or testing.

18. Locker plant and storage for retail sales only.

19. Manufacture, storage, refining, extraction, and pumping of chemicals, fertilizers, or petroleum products.

20. Printing and/or publishing houses.

21. Rendering facilities, or its products, refining and wholesale storage.

22. Slaughter houses, meat packing and processing plants, and stock yards.

23. Commercial or wholesale seed processing and storage.

24. Sawmill, planing mill, including manufacture of wood products.

25. Cement, lime gypsum, or plaster of Paris manufacture.

26. Explosive manufacture or storage.

27. Taverns, nightclubs and similar uses; provided, that the principal building is located at least 600 feet from any “R” residential district, incorporated boundary line, or dwelling other than the lessee or owner of the site.

28. Automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer or recreation vehicle establishments for display, hire and sale (including sales lots), including repair work clearly incidental and secondary to the primary use.

29. Creamery, bottling, ice manufacturing and cold storage plant.

30. Lumber yards and building material sales yard.

31. Commercial outdoor recreation facilities including automobile race tracks, drag strips, go-cart tracks, and/or activity areas for motorcycles, mini-bikes and snowmobiles, miniature golf courses and driving ranges, drive-in theaters, water slides, and similar outdoor recreation facilities.

32. Manufacturing or assembly of any product not listed as a principal permitted use.

33. Any principal permitted use listed above that is not adjacent to and served by a paved road. [Ord. 92, 2005; Ord. 86, 2004; Ord. 82, 2003; Ord. 79, 2003; Ord. 76, 2002; Ord. 63, 2001; Ord. 49, 2000; Ord. 41, 1997; Ord. 36 § 15, 1995. Code 2009 App. A, § 15.]