17.150.280 Industrial uses.

A. Light Industry. This category includes manufacturing, transportation and wholesale uses where all operations are inside the building, no exterior storage is permitted, and the maximum building size is two hundred thousand square feet or more. This includes the following uses, except where the use produces emissions exceeding sixty percent of the New Mexico standard:

General building contractors	SIC 15
Special trade contractors	SIC 17 (except storage of any equipment that is more than fifteen feet in height)
Food products	SIC 20 (except SIC 2011, 2015, 2077 and 2082-2085 other than microbreweries)
Textiles and apparel	SIC 22 and 23
Furniture and fixtures	SIC 25
Printing and publishing	SIC 27
Office and computing machines	SIC 357
Electric and electronic equipment	SIC 36 (except electronic distribution and electrical industrial (SIC 361 and 362))
Instruments and related products	SIC 38
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	SIC 59
Transportation services	SIC 47
Communications	SIC 48
Wholesale trade, durable and nondurable	SIC 50 and 51 (except farm products (SIC 515))
Mini-warehouses	part SIC 4225
A use otherwise classified as a junkyard occurring in a fully enclosed building

B. Warehouses. This category includes all warehousing (SIC 42 except mini- or self storage warehouses) that is not incidental to a manufacturing facility and occupying less than twenty-five percent of the total flood area.
C. Heavy Industry. This category includes construction, mining, manufacturing, transportation and public utilities due to the land use intensity impacts typically associated with large industrial uses, their accessory outdoor storage uses and large building areas.
1. All light industrial uses requiring outdoor storage or exceeding five thousand square feet;
2. Any light industrial use not meeting the noise, odor, vibration standards or producing emissions that exceed sixty percent within or adjoining the building shall also be considered a heavy industry regardless of use;
3. The following uses are permitted:

Dairy products	SIC 202
Heavy construction contractors	SIC 16
Meat products	SIC 201
Alcoholic beverages	SIC 208285
Stone, clay and glass products	SIC 32
Steel mills, foundries, smelter	SIC 33
Trucking and warehousing	SIC 42
Transportation equipment	SIC 37
Utility-production or processing facilities, but not office or transmission or distribution	SIC 49
Welding, sheet metal, blacksmith	SIC 76

D. Extraction. This category includes extraction uses such as mining and quarrying and any other extraction use (SIC 14).
E. Disposal. This category includes disposal uses such as: sanitary landfills, sludge disposal or storage; resource recovery facilities; energy recovery or generating from waste material; and any other form of waste management facilities (SIC 4953 excluding disposal of radioactive waste materials, all of which are prohibited). Sewer facilities are regulated as utilities.
F. Recycling or Storage. This category includes any land or structure used for salvaging, recycling, junkyards or storing of waste paper, rags, scrap metal and discarded materials and the collection, dismantlement, storage and salvage of two or more inoperative vehicles, automobiles, boats, trucks or farm vehicles or equipment, or other types of machinery. This category also includes the aggregate storage of manmade equipment, machinery, scrap, or other used materials having a total cubic volume of seven hundred cubic feet. Where no exterior storage exists, and all material is stored inside buildings with impervious floors, the use shall be considered light industry.
G. Waste Facilities. This category includes waste facilities where wastes are handled for transshipment to a disposal facility, including trash compaction and transfer stations. (Ord. 1495-96 § 3(part), 1996).