Ahead of the May 5 Planning & Zoning hearing continuation on a requested special exception within a M-2A Industrial Zone, The Newtown Bee is presenting the full text of permitted uses within that zone.

The hearing will take up Application 22.07 by Wharton Equity Partners LLC, for a Special Exception located at 10 Hawleyville Road and 1 Sedor Lane, so as to permit the construction of a 344,880 square foot warehouse with truck docks, trailer and vehicle parking spaces, and associated site work as demonstrated on a set of plans titled “Land Development Plans For Proposed Warehouse Development, 10 Hawleyville Road, Newtown, Connecticut” and supporting documents submitted to the Land Use Agency March 1, 2022.

The following principal uses are permitted in Industrial Zone M-2A subject to conditions provided herein and subject to obtaining site development plan approval, if required, in accordance with Part 10 hereof. For each property having more than one principal use, each principal use shall have a minimum gross floor area of 10,000 square feet.

Uses that are not listed as permitted shall not be permitted by variance.

A. Laboratory devoted to research, design, and experimentation.

B. Office building or office buildings, including medical offices.

C. Light industrial use including manufacturing, fabricating, processing, converting, altering, packaging, bottling or assembling of products, the operations of which are conducted solely within an enclosed building or group of buildings.

D. Hotel and conference center having no more than 250 guest rooms.

Special exception uses: The following principal uses are permitted in Industrial Zone M-2A subject to obtaining a special exception in accordance with criteria, standards and conditions set forth in Part 11, special exceptions.

A. Recreation/sports facility. Such facility may include indoor and/or outdoor golf courses, dance studios, health and exercise facilities, racquetball, squash, basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse fields, field hockey, track and field, swimming pools, ice-skating rinks — and any other recognized collegiate sport subject to the condition that any outdoor sports/recreational facility shall not operate past 9 pm Monday through Saturday or past 7 pm on Sundays and subject to any other conditions that the Commission may reasonably impose to protect the safety, health and welfare of the community. The sports/recreational facility may include seating for spectators.

B. Distribution center, warehouse or wholesale business.

C. Self storage facility.

D. Retail sales shall be enclosed; no outdoor storage of merchandise shall be permitted, and the maximum gross floor area for any single retail tenant shall be 25,000 square feet.

E. Personal service establishment.

F. Financial institution.

G. Restaurant including outside service but excluding drive-through facilities and outside entertainment.

Accessory uses: In addition to the accessory uses permitted in the industrial zones pursuant to Part 5, Article VII, the following accessory uses are also permitted in Industrial Zone M-2A so long as they remain clearly accessory and incidental to the principal use on each lot. Such accessory uses shall not exceed 5% of the total building area occupied by the principal use on each lot:

A. Child day-care center.

B. Adult day-care center.