Breckinridge Boulevard ~ Gwinnett County, GA.
Northeast Atlanta

LAND FOR SALE

Current Zoning on this Parcel is M-2

Section 1311. M-2 heavy industry district.
Purpose.  The M-2 heavy industry district provides a location for industrial operations and processes conducted both indoors and outdoors, and which due to their intensity of use, should be located on or have ready access to a major thoroughfare or state highway. 
Permitted uses.  Only the following uses shall be permitted within the M-2 heavy industry district and no structure shall be erected, structurally altered or enlarged for any use other than a use permitted herein with the exception of a) uses lawfully established prior to the effective date of this amendment, b) special uses as permitted herein, c) accessory uses as defined in article III, Definitions, or d) other uses which are clearly similar to and consistent with the purpose of this district. 
Accessory uses such as retail business and service establishments. In addition to the limitations on "accessory use" imposed under article III, Definitions, such permitted accessory uses specifically exclude retail business, office, and service establishments that could be construed as principal uses except as provided herein, and include only those uses that are primarily intended for and used by patrons or occupants of the principal use to which said establishment is accessory.
Aircraft factory.
Aircraft hanger/maintenance.
Aircraft landing field.
Alcoholic beverage plant/distillery.
Animal hospital or veterinary clinic.
Appliance repair shop.
Automatic teller machine.
Automobile or truck storage lot, excluding junk or wrecked vehicles (subject to screening requirements for outdoor storage).
Automobile rental.
Baking plant.
Bank/financial services institution.
Billboards or oversized signs, as provided in the sign ordinance of the county.
Building material sales (wholesale).
Cabinet shop.
Cafeteria (employee/accessory only).
Catering service (no retail sales).
Cement, concrete, masonry plant.
Clothing and apparel manufacturing.
Cold storage plant.
Contractor's office, with accessory vehicle maintenance. (Subject to screening requirements for outdoor storage).
Convention facility.
Crematory.
Depot/passenger terminal (bus, rail).
Distribution facility.
Dye casting works.
Food processing/packaging/canning plant (other than poultry/meat processing).
Fraternal club or lodge.
Heavy equipment and farm equipment rental or sales and service.
Hospital or medical clinic.
Hotel or motel provided the minimum standards are met as specified in the C-2 zoning district, section 1308.
HVAC equipment dealer/contractor.
Ice manufacturing/packing plant.
Laboratory.
Laundry/dry cleaning plant.
Lawn treatment service.
Liquid wastes treatment/recycling (paint, oil, grease, etc.).
Machine shop (not including on-site automotive repair).
Maintenance shop (automobile or truck fleet vehicles).
Manufacturing or assembly plant, general (including outdoor activities subject to screening requirements).
Medical/dental laboratory.
Movie studio.
Museum.
Office park.
Offices, professional/business.
Outdoor storage, other than junk/salvage yards, meeting the following requirements:
a.   It shall not be located within a required front yard.
b.   It shall be screened by a solid wood fence, masonry wall or slatted chain-link fence at least eight feet high.
c.   Materials stored outdoors shall not be placed or stacked at a height exceeding that of the screening fence.
Parking garage.
Pest control/extermination business.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing plant.
Photo processing plant.
Plant nursery (wholesale).
Plastics extrusion plant.
Plumbing equipment dealer/contractor.
Printing/bookbinding/publishing plant.
Radio/television station.
Railroad repair/storage yard.
Recording/rehearsal studio.
Recovered materials processing facility, wood chipping and shredding, yard trimmings composting facility, provided the following conditions are met:
a.   Recovered materials processing activities shall be limited to collection, sorting, compaction, and shipping. Composting materials shall be limited to tree stumps, branches, leaves, and grass clippings or similar putrescent vegetative materials, not including animal products, inorganic materials such as bottles, cans, plastics, metals, or similar materials.
b.   During the preceding 90 days of operation, the amount of material that is recycled, sold, used, or reused shall equal at least 60 percent by weight or volume of the material received during that 90-day period and 60 percent by weight or volume of all material previously received and not recycled, sold, used, or reused and carried forward into that 90-day period.
c.   Along the entire road frontage (except for approved access crossings), and along the side and rear property lines, provide a three-foot high landscaped earthen berm with a maximum slope of three to one and/or a minimum eight-foot high, 100 percent opaque, solid wooden fence or masonry wall. The fence/wall or berm must be located outside of any public right-of-way and interior to any landscaped strip or buffer. The finished side of a fence/wall shall face the exterior property lines.
d.   No such facility shall be located adjacent to or across the street from any property used for or zoned for residential use.
e.   Lighting for such facilities shall be placed in such a fashion as to be directed away from any nearby residential areas.
f.   Materials collected shall not be visible once deposited in a bin. All sorting and collection bins shall either be enclosed and have chutes available to the public or be located inside a fully-enclosed building.
g.   Any outside storage areas shall be screened by a minimum eight-foot high, solid wood fence, masonry wall or slatted chain-link fence. Materials stored outdoors shall not be placed or stacked at a height exceeding that of the screening fence.
Research and testing facility.
Soft drink bottling/distribution plant.
Stadium/concert hall/amphitheater.
Taxi/limousine service.
Textile/carpeting factory.
Trade/vocational school.
Truck rental or leasing.
Truck fleet maintenance shop, principal use.
Truck terminal.
Upholstery shop.
Welding shop.
Wholesaling and warehousing (accessory retail sales are permitted, not to exceed 15 percent of gross floor area).
Wholesale membership club.
Public and semi-public uses.   
Electrical, telephone or other public or semi-public utility station.
Residential uses.   
Caretaker or watchman quarters as an accessory use.
Special use.  Within the M-2 heavy industry district the following uses may be permitted provided the applicant for such a development is granted a special use permit by the board of commissioners after receiving recommendations from the planning director and planning commission and after a public hearing: 
Asphalt plant.
Bulk storage tanks including natural gas, chemical and petroleum and excluding accessory fuel dispensing/storage tanks or stations. No above ground storage facilities may be located closer than 500 feet to a residential district. All storage is to be subject to approval of the fire department.
Chemical plant.
Church, temple or synagogue.
Composting facility, municipal solid waste.
Day care facility.
Explosives plant/storage.
Fat and bone rendering plant.
Feed processing facility.
Fertilizer plant.
Health club or fitness center.
Metal smelting/forging works.
Mini-warehouses or self-service storage facility.
Nursing home, personal care home or assisted living facility.
Paper/pulp mill.
Petroleum refinery/processing plant.
Poultry/meat processing plant.
Private school.
Quarry for the removal of minerals and other natural materials, together with the necessary accessory asphalt plant, buildings, machinery, and appurtenances thereto, provided that:
a.   Quarry areas being excavated shall be entirely enclosed within a fence located at least ten feet back from the edge of any excavation and of such construction and height as to be demonstrably able to exclude children and animals from the quarry area.
b.   The operators and owners of the quarry present to the Municipal Gwinnett County Planning Commission and to the County Commissioners of Gwinnett County an acceptable comprehensive plan for the re-use of the property at the cessation of the quarry operation.
c.   In case of an existing quarry, any extension of the quarrying operations beyond the areas being quarried or approved for quarrying at the effective date of this amendment to the resolution, shall be permitted and shall not be considered a new operation nor require the approval of the board of commissioners as a special use permit, provided that said extension does not extend to within 300 feet of a residential district boundary line.
Recreation facility/training center, indoor (gymnastics schools, baseball academies, etc.).
Residential or community shelter, subject to the provisions of Rules for Shelters in Gwinnett County.
Restaurant, provided the following minimum standards are met:
a.   The proposed site shall be located within a recorded concept plan or subdivision plat for a business or office park which:
1.   Has an overall area of not less than 50 acres.
2.   Has existing principal use structures already developed within the office/business park.
3.   Has controls in place through protective covenants which will ensure building appearance and landscaping compatible with the remainder of the business or office park and which will ensure compliance with the requirements of this section.
b.   No more than ten percent of the acreage within the recorded concept plan or subdivision plat for the business or office park may be occupied by uses requiring a special use permit.
c.   The proposed restaurant:
1.   Shall have a minimum of 2,000 square feet of seating area excluding kitchen facilities.
2.   Shall have sit-down waiter or waitress service.
3.   Shall not have drive-thru or pick-up windows.
4.   Shall not be adjacent to or across a public street from residentially zoned property.
d.   Restaurant appearance shall blend with campus-type office/warehouse development. Application must include landscape plan, building elevations, and signage plans.
Rubber/tire/retreading plant.
Salvage operation, junk yard, impound lot (subject to screening requirements for outdoor storage).
Scrap tire processing plant.
Slaughter house.
Solid waste transfer station.
Sugar refinery.
Tannery/leather processing.
Towing/wrecker service.
Waste incineration facility.
(Res. of 4-22-86(2); Res. of 4-22-86(4); Res. of 2-20-91; Amend. of 6-27-95(1); Ord. No. A-96-006, 4-23-96; Res. No. A-01-001, 3-27-01; Res. No. A-01-004, 8-28-01)

Section 1312. Floodplain general provisions.
These regulations pertain only to the use of lands contained within a floodplain as defined by the Gwinnett County Floodplain Management Ordinance. For the purposes of this section, all terms shall be as defined in Article 1.1 of the Floodplain Management Ordinance, and as may be defined in the Development Regulations of Gwinnett County, whichever definition is more restrictive.
Section 1312.1 Use provisions.  The intent of the regulations within this section is to limit the use of land contained within a floodplain. Notwithstanding the uses permitted for any applicable zoning district which apply to the property, no building or structure or land shall hereafter be used or occupied other than as herein provided, and no building or structure or part thereof shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved or altered except in conformity with the requirements of this regulation when such lands fall within or are affected by a floodplain. 
2.   Lot area restrictions.  All concept plans, site plans, preliminary plats, and final subdivision plats with all or portions of the land area contained within the floodplain, or contiguous to the floodplain, shall comply with the following requirements, as applicable: 
a.   In all residential zoning districts, up to 50 percent of the area located at or below the base flood elevation may be used in computations for meeting the density requirements in accordance with the provisions of this resolution.
b.   In the RA-200, R-140, R-100 and R-75 zoning districts, no lot shall contain less than 8,000 square feet of land area above the base flood elevation. In the R-60 zoning district, no lot shall contain less than 7,000 square feet of land area above the base flood elevation. Subdivisions zoned R-ZT shall comply with all the requirements of this resolution; however, each lot within this zoning classification shall have a minimum of 4,000 square feet above the base flood elevation
c.   No subdivision lot shall be approved which has less than 50 percent of the minimum lot area required by the applicable zoning district located above the base flood elevation.
d.   Each plat or site plan submitted for rezoning, special use permit or move-in-house permit shall contain a readily identifiable line indicating the limits of the base flood elevation if any portion of the property lies within the floodplain. This line shall be clearly labeled and the base flood elevation above mean sea level stated. The plat or site plan shall indicate where the base flood elevation has been established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or where the base flood elevation has been calculated by a registered professional engineer using the best available information.