This district is established primarily as an area for wholesale activities, warehouses and industrial operations of a light nature that will not create serious compatibility problems with other land users. Features of noise, glare, smoke, dust and fumes should be minimal.

In industrial district M-1, any building to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

(2-1)

Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs. Also the manufacture of small parts, such as coils, condensers, transformers and crystal holders.

(2-2)

Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical.

(2-3)

Manufacture and sale of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas, coal and fuel oil (including ceramics studios).

(2-4)

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps.

(2-5)

Plumbing and building supplies, sales and storage.

(2-6)

Coal and wood yards.

(2-7)

Cabinet, furniture and upholstery shops.

(2-8)

Boat building.

(2-9)

Monumental stone works.

(2-10)

Wholesale business and storage warehouses.

(2-11)

Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and towers, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and water and sewerage installations.

(2-12)

Storage of petroleum or other inflammable liquids, above ground.

(2-13)

Garment, clothing and knitting mills and apparel manufacturing.

(2-14)

Machine and sheet metal shops.

(2-15)

Building contractor's yards.

(2-16)

Trucking terminals.

(2-17)

Radio transmitter stations.

(2-18)

Auto and truck repair shops.

(2-19)

Any use permitted in the district C-3.

(Ord. No. O-15-03, 6-9-2015)

(3-1)

Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district, or a certificate of occupancy issued for a new use, a site plan and other plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study. The administrator may refer these plans to the planning commission for their recommendation. Modifications of the plans may be required by the planning commission to conform to the provisions of this ordinance (see article XX for site plan regulations).

(3-2)

Where permitted uses are within 500 feet of a residential district, they shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area appropriately screened on the side facing the district, by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.

(3-2.1)

Public utilities requiring natural air circulation or other technical consideration necessary for proper operation may be exempt from this provision. This exception does not include storing of any materials.

(3-3)

Landscaping is required within any established or required front setback area. The plans and execution must take into consideration traffic hazards. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet, and to within 50 feet from the corner of any intersecting street.

(3-4)

Sufficient area shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and for off-street parking vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.

None, except that wherever a building is built upon a lot adjacent to a residential district boundary, there shall be provided a minimum yard of 30 feet or more for all yards on the side of the building adjacent to the district boundary line. On corner lots, the side yards facing on a street shall be 30 feet or more.

Signs shall conform to article XV of this ordinance.

Buildings may be erected up to a height of 75 feet. For buildings over 75 feet in height, approval shall be obtained from the board of zoning appeals. Chimneys, flues, cooling towers, storage bins, screening plants, flag poles, radio or communications towers or their accessory facilities not normally occupied by workmen are excluded. Parapet walls are permitted up to four feet above the limited height of the building on which the walls rest.

No building shall be located or structurally altered nearer to the street on which it faces than 35 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is over 50 feet or greater in width, or 60 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width. This shall be known as the "setback line".

(Ord. No. O-18-13, 12-11-2018; Ord. No. O-20-14, 6-14-2022)

Buildings or groups of buildings with their accessory buildings may cover up to 70 percent of the area of the lot. Any area not covered by buildings or pavement shall be landscaped and maintained.

Off-street parking is required. Refer to article XIV of this ordinance.