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ARTICLE A. - MANUFACTURING ZONES (M-1, M-2 )

Part of the City Code of Riverdale, UT.

Local law · Updated June 10, 2026 · 1,041 sections

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10-11A-1: - PURPOSE AND INTENT:#

The purpose of heavy manufacturing zones is to provide suitable areas that will accommodate the need for heavy intensity manufacturing and extractive and associated uses where the environmental impact upon the community may be substantial and where public regulation may be necessary to preserve the general welfare of the community. The two (2) types of manufacturing zones provided for in this article are as follows: A.

M-1 - light manufacturing use zone.

B.

M-2 - heavy manufacturing use zone.

(1985 Code § 19-25-1; amd. 2001 Code)

10-11A-2: - USES:#

In the following list of possible uses, those designated in any zone as "P" will be a permitted use. Uses designated as "C" will be allowed only when authorized by a conditional use permit obtained as provided in chapter 19 of this title. Uses designated as "N" will not be allowed in that zone. All permitted and conditional uses allowed in the C-3 zone are also allowed as conditional uses in the M-1 zone, except those uses having to do with hotels, lodging houses, and motels. M-1 M-2

Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to a permitted use P P

Agriculture P P

Ambulance base station P P

Ambulance substation P P

Animal hospitals P P

Animals and fowl for family food production P P

Battery manufacture C C

Boat building P P

Body and fender work, if conducted within a closed building P P

Bottling works, soft drinks P P

Building material sale yard including the sale of rock, sand, gravel and the like as an incidental part of the main business, but excluding concrete mixing, except as such concrete mixing is necessary in the preparation and manufacture of any of the products specified in this section C P

Carnival or other amusement enterprises, transient in nature C C

Carpenter shop, cabinet shop C C

Carpet and rug cleaning and dyeing P P

Construction of buildings to be sold and moved off the premises P P

Contractor's equipment storage yard or rental of equipment used by contractors C C

Dairy P P

Draying, freighting or trucking yard or terminal C P

Dry cleaning plant P P

Dwelling unit for watchman and family P P

Egg handling, process and sales P P

Electric appliances and/or electronic instruments assembly P P

Express office P P

Feed, cereal or flour mill N P

Fertilizer and soil conditioner manufacture, processing and/or sales, providing only nonanimal products C C

Foundry, casting lightweight, nonferrous metal without causing noxious odors or fumes C C

Garage, public P P

Glass manufacturing C C

Go-cart racing or drag strip racing N C

Honey extraction P P

Ice manufacturing and storage P P

Incinerator nonaccessory; provided, that no objectionable fumes and odors are emitted N C

Kennel, enclosed within a building C C

Knitting mill P P

Laboratory P P

Laundry P P

Lithographing including engraving and photo engraving P P

Machine shop P P

Manufacture, fabrication, assembly, canning, compounding, packaging, process, treatment, storage and/or maintenance of the following: C C

Automobile and parts

Cans

Emery cloth excelsior

Hardware

Machinery, matches

Oxygen

Salt

Manufacture of brick and all clay, ceramic, cinder, concrete, synthetic, cast stone, plastic and pumice stone products, including the manufacture or fabrication of building blocks, tile or pipe from raw material for use in building construction or for sewer or drainage purposes, and including rock or gravel crushings or raw material which is incidental to the above described products; and provided, that such crushing facilities shall be located not closer than 200 feet to any property line C C

Manufacturing and maintenance of the following: P P

Business machines

Cameras and photographic equipment

Electric and neon sign, billboard and/or commercial advertising structures

Light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment

Musical instruments

Novelties

Rubber and metal stamps

Toys

Manufacturing, compounding and treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: C C

Bone

Feathers

Fiber

Fish

Glass

Hair

Horn

Leather

Paint

Paper

Plastic

Rubber

Tobacco

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling and treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: P P

Canvas

Cellophane

Cloth

Cork

Felt

Shell

Straw

Textile

Wood

Yarn

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing, and treatment of the following products: P P

Bakery goods

Candy

Dairy products

Pharmaceuticals

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing and treatment of the following products: C C

Cosmetics

Food products, excluding the following: fish, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar, yeast, the rendering of fat

Toiletries

Manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, canning, compounding, packaging, processing, treatment, storage and/or maintenance of the following: N C

Alcohol

Brass

Candles, cast stone products, cement and cinder products, copper ceramic products, clay products

Dyestuff

Feathers, fiber, fish food products

Glass, glucose, gypsum

Hair

Ink, iron

Lampblack, linoleum, lime

Malt, meats

Oilcloth, oiled rubber goods

Paper, paint, pulp, pickles, plaster, plaster of Paris, plastic

Sauerkraut, sheet metal, shellac, shoddy, shoe polish, soap and detergent, starch, steel

Terra cotta, tile, turpentine

Varnish, vinegar

Yeast

Manufacturing, processing, compounding, packing treatment and/or storage of acetylene gas N C

Meat products smoking, curing and packing; provided, that no objectionable fumes are emitted C C

Metals and metal products treatment and processing N C

Monument works P P

Motion picture studio P P

Motor vehicles, trailers, bicycles and machinery repairing, rentals, sales and reconditioning P P

Parking lot C C

Petroleum refining and storage N C

Planing mill P P

Printing, including engraving and photo engraving, blueprinting, photostating and duplication C C

Public and quasi-public uses P P

Public transit yards C C

Radio and television transmitting towers P P

Railroad yards, shop and/or roundhouse N C

Retail sale of products produced by, developed in conjunction with, or normally required and used in the performance of a commercial or manufacturing operation permitted in this zone; and provided the retail sale is clearly an accessory use to the main permitted use and is conducted within the same building or if the main use is not a building then on the same property; provided however, no retail sale of products may be made in conjunction with a warehousing or wholesale business C C

Sandblasting C C

Service station P P

Sign painting shop P P

Temporary building for uses incidental to construction work, including living quarters for a guard or night watchman, which building must be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work C C

Transfer company C C

Trucking terminal C C

Upholstering, including mattress manufacturing, rebuilding, and renovating P P

Used car lot P P

Veterinary and hotel or beauty parlor for cats and dogs P P

Warehouse P P

Weaving P P

Welding shop C C

Wholesale business P P

Uses which follow, provided they are located at least 600 feet from any zone boundary: N C

Blast furnace

Cement, concrete, mortar, plaster, or paving material central mixing plant

Gravel pits, quarries

Junk or salvage yard, provided the use is enclosed with a 7 feet high solid fence or wall

Manufacturing, processing, refining, treatment, distillation, storage or compounding of the following:

Acid

Ammonia

Asphalt

Bleaching powder and chlorine

Bone

Chemicals of an objectionable or dangerous nature

Coal or wood

Creosote

Disinfectants or insecticides

Fat

Fireworks or explosives

Fur

Gas

Gelatin or size

Glue

Hide

Ore

Plastic

Potash

Pyroxylin

Roofing or waterproofing materials

Rubber or gutta percha

Tallow grease or lard

Tar

Wood

Ore benefication

Smelting or refining of materials

(Ord. 658, 4-18-2006)

10-11A-3: - SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS:#

M-1 M-2

Minimum site area 20,000 square feet

Minimum lot width 100 feet 100 feet

Minimum yard setbacks:

Front 30 feet on streets of less than 80 feet in width, 50 feet on all streets and highways of 80 or more feet in width

Side None, except 20 feet adjacent to a residential boundary

Rear None, except 20 feet where building rears on a residential zone

Building height:

Minimum 1 story 1 story

Maximum None None

Lot coverage Not over 80 percent of lot area of building

(Ord. 658, 4-18-2006)

10-11A-4: - SITE PLAN APPROVAL REQUIRED:#

In considering any site plan as regulated by this title for permitted or conditional uses specified in this article, the planning commission shall endeavor to ensure, among other things, the safety and convenience of traffic movement both within the area covered and in relation to access streets, harmonious and beneficial relation among the buildings and uses in the area covered, and satisfactory and harmonious relation between such area and contiguous land and buildings and adjacent neighborhoods. In any manufacturing zone, the location of main and accessory buildings on the site and in relation to one another, the traffic circulation features within the site, the height and bulk of buildings, the provision of off street parking space, the provision of driveways for ingress and egress, and the provision of other open space on the site, and the display of signs, shall be in accordance with a site plan or plans or subsequent amendment thereof, approved in any case by the planning commission prior to issuance of a building or land use permit. A site plan may also include provisions for landscaping, fences and walls designed to further the purposes of the regulations for manufacturing zones and such features shall be provided and maintained as a condition of the establishment and maintenance of any use to which they are appurtenant. Conditional uses are regulated by chapter 19 of this title.

(Ord. 658, 4-18-2006)