What businesses and activities are allowed in the MG district

(a) The following uses shall be permitted in the MG district: (1) Agricultural products processing, major and minor. (2) Airfields, heliports and private landing strips. (3) Amusement and recreation facilities, indoor. (4) Animal hospitals. (5) Animal quarantine stations. (6) Animal sales, stock, and feed yards. (7) Apiaries. (8) Aquaculture activities and facilities. (9) Automobile and truck storage facilities. (10) Automobile body and fender establishments. (11) Automobile service stations. (12) Bakeries. (13) Bars. (14) Breweries, distilleries, and alcohol manufacturing facilities. (15) Broadcasting stations. 25-117 SUPP. 17 (1-2025) (16) Bulk storage of flammable products and bulk storage of explosive products. (17) Car washing. (18) Catering establishments. (19) Cemeteries and mausoleums, as permitted under chapter 6, article 1 of this Code. (20) Cleaning and dyeing plants. (21) Commercial parking lots and garages. (22) Concrete or asphalt batching and mixing plants and yards. (23) Contractors’ yards for equipment, material, and vehicle storage, repair, or maintenance. (24) Crematoriums, funeral homes, funeral services, and mortuaries. (25) Day care centers. (26) Dumping, disposal, incineration, or reduction of refuse or waste matter. (27) Expansion of an existing commercial excavation operation, provided that plan approval is secured from the director. (28) Fabricating establishments. (29) Fertilizer manufacturing plants. (30) Financial institutions. (31) Food manufacturing and processing facilities. (32) Freight movers. (33) Greenhouses, plant nurseries. (34) Heavy equipment sales, service and rental. (35) Home improvement centers. (36) Junkyards. (37) Kennels. (38) Laboratories, medical and research. (39) Laundries. (40) Lava rock or stone cutting or shaping facilities. (41) Lumberyards and building material yards. (42) Machine, welding, sheet metal, and metal plating and treating establishments. (43) Manufacturing, processing and packaging establishments, light and general. (44) Marine railways, drydocks, and ship or boat yards. (45) Meeting facilities, as permitted under section 25-4-17. (46) Motion picture and television production studios. (47) Photographic processing. (48) Primary airports, provided that plan approval is secured from the director. (49) Public dumps. (50) Public uses and structures, as permitted under section 25-4-11. (51) Publishing plants for newspapers, books and magazines, printing shops, cartographing, and duplicating processes such as blueprinting or photostating shops. (52) Recycling centers. (53) Reduction, refining, smelting, or alloying of metals, petroleum products or ores. (54) Repair establishments, major and minor. SUPP. 19 (1-2026) 25-118 ZONING § 25-5-152 (55) Restaurants. (56) Saw mills. (57) Self storage facilities. (58) Slaughterhouses. (59) Special events. (60) Storage and sale of seed, feed, fertilizer and other products essential to agricultural production. (61) Storage, curing, or tanning of raw, green, or salted hides or skins. (62) Telecommunication antennas and towers, as permitted under section 25-4-12. (63) Temporary real estate offices, as permitted under section 25-4-8. (64) Transportation and tour terminals. (65) Truck, freight and draying terminals. (66) Utility facilities, public and private, including power plants, offices or yards for equipment, material, vehicle storage, repair or maintenance. (67) Utility substations, as permitted under section 25-4-11. (68) Veterinary establishments. (69) Warehousing. (70) Wholesaling and distribution, including the storage of incidental materials and equipment. (71) Yacht harbors and boating facilities. (b) In addition to those uses permitted under subsection (a) above, the following uses may be permitted in the MG district, provided that a use permit is issued for each use: (1) Commercial excavation. (2) Major outdoor amusement and recreation facilities. (3) Schools. (c) Any other use not otherwise permitted in subsection (a) that relates to the manufacturing, transportation, processing, assembling, distributing, repairing, and storage of goods, products, or materials, shall be permitted in the MG district. (d) The following uses shall be permitted in the MG district as incidental and subordinate to any permitted use: (1) Living quarters for watchmen or custodians in connection with the operation of any permitted use. (2) Retail sales. (3) Services for persons working in an MG district which are conducted within an integral part of a main structure with entrances from the interior of the building and which have no display or advertising visible from the street. (e) Buildings and uses normally considered directly accessory to the uses permitted in this section shall also be permitted in the MG district. (1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999; am 2005, ord 05-68, sec 2; am 2011, ord 11-26, sec 5; am 2012, ord 12-28, sec 17; am 2019, ord 19-100, sec 9; am 2020, ord 20-94, sec 4; am 2024, ord 24-65, secs 7 and 10; am 2025, ord 25-55, sec 12; ord 25-66, sec 24.)25-5-152 25-119 SUPP. 19 (1-2026)