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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-308 “Industrial: General” to “Lot: Interior”.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-308" heading="“Industrial: General” to “Lot: Interior”.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Industrial: General.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Industrial: General” means the processing, manufacturing, or compounding of materials, products, or energy, having impacts on the environment or significant impacts on the use and enjoyment of adjacent property in terms of noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or health and safety hazards.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Industrial: General” includes:<para num="(i)">the storage of large volumes of toxic or highly flammable matter or explosives; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">outdoor operations as part of the processing, manufacturing, or compounding process.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Industrial: General” does not include or authorize any use prohibited by &lt;cite data-path="|32|§1-209"&gt;§ 1-209 {“Uses prohibited citywide”} of this title&lt;/cite&gt;.
            </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Industrial: Light.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Industrial: Light” means the processing, manufacturing, assembly, or compounding of materials or products, where:<para num="(i)">all processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of products are contained entirely within a building;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">noise, odor, smoke, heat, glare, and vibration resulting from the manufacturing process are confined within the building or otherwise minimized; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">only minimal truck traffic is required for daily operations.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Industrial: Light” includes incidental storage, sales, and distribution of products manufactured or stored on site.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Industrial: Light” does not include or authorize any use prohibited by &lt;cite data-path="|32|§1-209"&gt;§ 1-209 {“Uses prohibited citywide”} of this title&lt;/cite&gt;.
            </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Industrial: Maritime-dependent.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Industrial: Maritime-dependent” means industrial uses with maritime-dependent facilities.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Industrial: Maritime-dependent” includes:<para num="(i)">facilities associated with marine terminals for the storage or intermodal transfer of goods transported in waterborne commerce;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">manufacturing facilities relying on the bulk receipt or shipments of goods by waterborne commerce;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">wharves, piers, docks, and storage facilities for the commercial fishing industry;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">dry docks and other facilities related to the construction, servicing, storage, maintenance, or repair of vessels and other marine structures;</para>
        <para num="(v)">facilities for tow boats, barges, dredges, ferries, commuter boats, water buses, water taxis, or other vessels engaged in waterborne commerce, port operations, or marine construction; and</para>
        <para num="(vi)">facilities that:<para num="(A)">are educational in nature, including visitors centers, museums, and interpretive areas, indoor or outdoor; and</para>
          <para num="(B)">are substantially related to an existing industrial maritime-dependent use, whether on the same parcel or an adjacent parcel to that use.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Interior lot.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Lot: Interior.”</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Interior-side lot line.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Lot line: Interior-side.”</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Junk or scrap storage and yards.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="“Processed metal” defined.">
        <para num="(i)" heading="In general.">“Processed metal” means scrap metal that has been manually or physically altered either to separate it into distinct materials to enhance economic value or to improve the handling of materials.</para>
        <para num="(ii)" heading="Inclusions.">“Processed metal” includes:<para num="(A)">scrap metal that has been baled, shredded, sheared, chopped, crushed, flattened, cut, melted, or separated; and</para>
          <para num="(B)">fines, drosses, and related materials that have been agglomerated.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="“Junk or scrap storage and yards” defined.">“Junk or scrap storage and yards” means any premises used for any 1 or more of the following:<para num="(i)">the commercial or industrial storage, temporary or otherwise, of unprocessed metal, processed metal, wastepaper, rags, or other junk;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the purchase or sale, by weight across an on-site scale, of unprocessed metal, processed metal, wastepaper, rags, or other junk; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">the sorting, baling, separating, shearing, shredding, or torch preparation of metal or any other form of scrap-metal processing, including automobile flattening and crushing.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Kennel.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Kennel” means a business or other entity where 3 or more dogs or cats over 6 months old are boarded or maintained by a person other than their owner, and boarding is the primary or principal function of the use.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Kennel” does not include:<para num="(i)">the premises of a feral cat caregiver, as defined in &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-128" data-path="|health"&gt;City Health Code &lt;/cite&gt;
                &lt;cite data-doc="City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-128" data-path="|health|10|1|10-101"&gt;§ 10-101 {“Animal Control...: Definitons”}&lt;/cite&gt;, unless 3 or more dogs or non-feral cats over six 6 months old are boarded or maintained on the premises; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">an animal clinic, unless it engages in the boarding of healthy animals not then being treated or convalescing from treatment in the animal clinic.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Landfill: Industrial.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Landfill: Industrial” means a facility for the disposal of inert, non-hazardous industrial materials that are not biodegradable and are not economically and beneficially reusable at the time of their disposal.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Landfill: Industrial” does not include a facility for the disposal of:<para num="(i)">household, commercial, or municipal solid waste;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">rubble; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">land-clearing debris.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Landfill: Solid waste sanitary.">“ Landfill: Solid waste sanitary” means a facility for the disposal of primarily household, commercial, and municipal solid waste.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Light food processing.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Food processing: Light”.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Light industrial.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Industrial: Light”.</para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Live entertainment.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Entertainment: Live”.</para>
    <para num="(m)" heading="Lighting: Shielded.">“Lighting: Shielded” means a fixture that is shielded in a manner so that light rays emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture or a reflector, are projected below a horizontal plane running through the lowest point on the fixture where light is emitted.</para>
    <para num="(n)" heading="Lighting: Unshielded.">“Lighting: Unshielded” means a fixture that allows light, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture or a reflector, to be emitted above the horizontal plane running through the lowest point on the fixture where light is emitted.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Live-work dwelling.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Dwelling: Live-Work”.</para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Loading berth.">“Loading berth” means a space within a loading facility that:<para num="(1)">is exclusively for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading goods or materials; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">adjoins a street, alley, or other appropriate means of access.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(q)" heading="Lodge or social club.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Lodge or social club” means a lodge or social club that:<para num="(i)">has a limited membership, with members elected pursuant to its charter or bylaws;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">excludes the general public from its premises or place of meeting;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">is organized with officers and directors elected pursuant to its charter or bylaws; and</para>
        <para num="(iv)">holds all property for the common benefit of its members.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Lodge or social club” includes:<para num="(i)">a union hall; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a non-residential post-baccalaureate fraternity and sorority center.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Lodge or social club” does not include an establishment that permits non-members to pay a temporary membership fee at the door in order to enter and use the premises.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(r)" heading="Lot.">“Lot” means a portion of land that:<para num="(1)">is a lot of record; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">has been established as a lot by an approved subdivision plat.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(s)" heading="Lot area.">“Lot area” means the area of a horizontal plane bounded by lot lines at grade.</para>
    <para num="(t)" heading="Lot: Corner.">“Lot: Corner” means a lot that is situated at the junction of and adjoins 2 or more intersecting streets.</para>
    <para num="(u)" heading="Lot coverage.">“Lot coverage” means the portion of a lot that is occupied by buildings or other structures, including accessory structures, expressed as a percentage of total lot area.</para>
    <para num="(v)" heading="Lot: Interior.">“Lot: Interior” means a lot that is neither a corner lot nor a through lot.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-181</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
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</baltimore-city-law>
