The purpose of this district is to provide areas for certain nonoffensive industries which do not have harmful effects on residential areas to locate in areas near or adjacent to residential uses. The limitations on (or provisions relating to) height of building, horsepower of machinery, heating, flammable liquids or explosives, controlling emission of fumes, odors and/or noise, landscaping, and the number of persons employed are imposed to protect and foster nearby or adjacent residential desirability while permitting industries to locate near a labor supply.

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

7-1-1.

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.

7-1-2.

Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical.

7-1-3.

Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries and food products.

7-1-4.

Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood and yarn, and paint.

7-1-5.

Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

7-1-6.

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

7-1-7.

Building material sales yards, plumbing supplies storage.

7-1-8.

Coal and wood yards, lumber yards, feed and seed stores.

7-1-9.

Contractors equipment storage yards or plants, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

7-1-10.

Cabinets, furniture and upholstery shops.

7-1-11.

Mobile home building.

7-1-12.

Monumental stone works.

7-1-13.

Veterinary or dog or cat hospital, kennels.

7-1-14.

Airports with conditional use permit.

7-1-15.

Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses.

7-1-16.

Off-street parking as required by this ordinance.

7-1-17.

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 facilities, and water and sewerage installations.

7-1-18.

Business signs.

7-1-19.

General advertising signs.

7-1-20.

Location signs.

7-2-1.

Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district, or a permit issued for a new use, the plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study. The administrator shall refer these plans to the planning commission for recommendation. Modifications of the plans may be required.

7-2-2.

Permitted uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or evergreen hedge six feet in height. Public utilities and signs requiring natural air circulation, unobstructed view, or other technical consideration necessary for proper operation may be exempt from this provision. This exception does not include storing of any material.

7-2-3.

Landscaping may be 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 streets.

7-2-4.

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

7-2-5.

Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this ordinance are to be considered as nonconforming uses. They shall be allowed up to one year after adoption of this ordinance in which to completely screen, on any side open to view from a public road, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.

7-2-6.

The administrator shall act on any application received within 20 days after receiving the application. If formal notice in writing is given to the applicant, the time for action may be extended for a 20-day period. Failure on the part of the administrator to act on the application within the established time limit shall be deemed to constitute approval of the application.

For permitted uses utilizing individual sewage disposal systems, the required area for any such use shall be approved by the health official. The administrator may require a greater area if considered necessary by the health official.

Buildings shall be located 20 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width or 35 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width except that signs advertising sale or rent of premises may be erected up to the property line. This shall be known as the "setback line."

For permitted uses the minimum side yard adjoining or adjacent to a residential district shall be 25 feet. The side yard of corner lots shall be 25 feet or more. Off-street parking shall be in accordance with the provisions contained herein.

Buildings may be erected up to a height of 35 feet. For buildings over 35 feet in height, approval shall be obtained from the administrator. Chimneys, flues, cooling towers, flag poles, radio or communication towers or their accessory facilities not normally occupied by workmen are excluded from this limitation. Parapet walls are permitted up to four feet above the limited height of the building on which the walls rest.

Buildings or groups of buildings with their accessory buildings may cover up to 75 percent of the area of the lot.