Zoning Dictionary

Category: Industrial Uses

Pollution Reduction Facility

A facility specifically designed to remove pollutants from stormwater. Pollutants may include sediment, heavy metals, or plant nutrients. These facilities generally include native wetland plants which blend into surrounding habitat.

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Portable Asphalt Plant

A facility with equipment designed to heat and dry aggregate and to mix aggregate with bituminous asphalt to produce asphalt paving material, and includes stockpiling and storage of bulk materials used in the process but which is not of permanent construction and is designed to be dismantled and moved to another location as required.

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Portable Processing Plant

Any equipment for the crushing, screening or washing of sand and gravel aggregate materials, but not including a concrete batching plant or an asphalt plant, which equipment is capable of being readily drawn or readily propelled by a motor vehicle and which equipment is not considered permanently affixed to the site.

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Primary Metals Plant

A smelter, blast furnace, cupola, foundry, mill or other factory used for the production of primary iron or steel, including pig-iron, ferro-alloys and rolled products, or of babbitt metal or other primary non-ferrous metals.

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Primary Processing

The washing, cleaning, screening, sifting, sorting, grading and crushing of raw material grown or extracted in or from the earth but excludes any manufacturing, fabricating, assembling or production of goods or other materials from or out of such raw material.

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Private Gasoline Pump Island

A gasoline pump island used to dispense gasoline solely to vehicles owned or leased by the occupant of the lot where such gasoline pump island is located. This definition shall not include an automobile service station or any other facility for the sale of fuels.

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Processing Plant

The use of lands, buildings, or structures where agricultural produce, including meat and poultry products, is washed, cleaned, dusted, waxed, or otherwise prepared or packaged and from which such produce is shipped to a wholesale or retail outlet.

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Propane Transfer Facility

A facility at a fixed location having not more than one storage container and such container shall not have an aggregate propane storage capacity in excess of 50,000 litres and from which no retail sale of propane fuels to the public is or may be affected.

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Propane Transfer Facility, Private

A facility which is accessory to a propane transfer facility or tank farm and is used to refuel the vehicles, appliances or other equipment of the business or establishment to which the propane transfer facility or tank farm belongs but from which no retail sale of propane fuel to the public is or may be […]

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Public Utility Building

The building in which the proprietor of the public utility maintains its office or offices or maintains or houses any equipment used in connection with the public utility. A building used in conjunction with the supply of local utility services including a water or sewage pumping station, a water storage reservoir, a gas regulator building, […]

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