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IM-3 Medium Intensity Industrial and Manufacturing District Hollywood, Florida

Medium-intensity industrial district: permits commercial, manufacturing and industrial (but not heavy), warehouse, self-storage, offices, hotels/motels, pawn/thrift/consignment shops and places of worship; hazardous industries and service stations are special exceptions. Outdoor storage is permitted subject to street landscape buffers.

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Permitted uses

What you can operate in IM-3, Hollywood

The businesses the IM-3 district in Hollywood allows. The ones on the left are permitted by right; the ones on the right need a special approval first. (Zoning codes are set by each municipality, so IM-3 here means specifically Hollywood's IM-3 district.)

Allowed by right

CommercialConsignment ShopManufacturing and IndustrialHotels and motelsPawn ShopPlaces of worshipOfficesSelf-Storage FacilityThrift ShopWarehouse

With special approval

Hazardous IndustriesService Station

Build envelope

Development standards

Headline dimensional limits for this district. Confirm exact figures against the current code for your specific parcel.

StandardMax height 100 ft (radio antenna towers to 200 ft)

StandardMax lot coverage 90%

Setbacksfront/street side per industrial landscape buffer (5% of lot depth, min 5 ft, max 15 ft; fence/wall 6-8 ft); side/rear 0 ft; abutting residential: 20 ft +1 ft per ft over 15 ft height with 5 ft buffer; recycling adjacent to residential needs 6 ft CBS wall and 10 ft setback

ProhibitedResidential (except living quarters for owners/agents within structures used exclusively for businesses); Institutional; Heavy manufacturing and industrial; Paint or varnish manufacture; uses producing noise/odor/vibration/smoke/glare/heat/fire/explosive effects on contiguous property; uses incompatible with the Future Land Use Map

Accessory usesOutdoor storage (permitted per sec. 4.4.E, subject to industrial street landscape buffer); Accessory off-street parking/loading and storage of goods used in or produced by permitted industrial uses; non-industrial floor area max 25% of total development (sec. 4.21.F); Recycling operations within enclosed buildings only (disassembling, sorting, baling, storage, buying/selling; no chemicals or heat) (sec. 4.4.E)

StandardRead from Art. 4 sec. 4.4.C (IM-3) and 4.4.E (performance standards); permitted = by right, conditional = needs conditional-use / special-exception approval

The fine print

In plain English

BY RIGHT No hearing needed

If your business is on the by-right list, you can occupy a space in this district and open — no zoning hearing. Building permits and licensing still apply, but the use itself is already allowed.

SPECIAL Approval first

Special-approval uses can work here too, but they go through a public review before opening. Plan for extra time and possible conditions — we'll tell you which path a space needs.

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