The manufacturing districts set forth herein are established to protect public health, safety, comfort, convenience and the general welfare, and to protect the economic base of the City as well as the value of real estate by regulating manufacturing development in appropriate locations. These general objectives include, among others, the following specific objectives:

   (A)   To protect established residential areas, and the health of families living therein, by restricting those nearby manufacturing activities which may create offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, fire hazards and other objectionable influences, to those areas which are appropriate therefore.

   (B)   To provide adequate space in appropriate locations from all types of manufacturing and related activities so that economic structure of the community may be strengthened, and that employment opportunities may be found in the interest of public prosperity and welfare.

   (C)   To provide more space for manufacturing activities in locations accessible to rail and highways, so that the movement of raw materials, finished products and employees can be carried on efficiently and with a minimum of danger to public life and property.

   (D)   To establish proper standards of performance, which will restrict obnoxious manufacturing activities, while at the same time encourage and permit the manufacturing activities which have adopted facilities for the processing of finished products without adversely affecting the health, morals, happiness, safety, convenience and welfare of the people living and working in nearby areas.

   (E)   To protect manufacturing districts from incompatible uses of land by prohibiting the use of such space for new residential development, thereby preserving the land for a more appropriate use in accordance with the plans for City improvement and development.

   (F)   To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well considered plan of land use for all of the City, to conserve the use of property, to promote stability of manufacturing activities and related development, and to protect the character and established development in each area of the community, to enhance and stabilize the value of land and to protect the tax base of the City. (Ord. 1973, 1-6-1997)

   (A)   Permitted Uses: Since most uses permitted in this District will be in close proximity to residential districts, it is hereby declared that performance standards shall be high, and that all manufacturing, processing or assembly of materials and products must be carried on in a manner not injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission of odors, fumes, gases, dust, smoke, noise, vibrations or fire hazards. Properties directly adjacent to Residential Districts shall be heavily buffered. The LM District is intended to provide for a compatible mixture of office, research, and light industrial/warehouse uses located adjacent to arterial roads. All uses shall conform to the standards enumerated in Chapter 15: Environmental Performance Standards. Permitted uses are:

      1.   Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.

      2.   Artificial limb manufacture.

      3.   Auction houses with outside sales.

      4.   Automobile painting, upholstering, repairing, reconditioning and body and fender repairing when done within the confines of a structure.

      5.   Batteries, manufacture and rebuilding.

      6.   Bedspring and mattress manufacture.

      7.   Belting.

      8.   Bicycle manufacture.

      9.   Boat building and repair.

      10.   Brooms and brushes.

      11.   Building equipment, building materials, lumber, coal, sand and gravel yards, and yards for contracting equipment, maintenance or operating equipment of public agencies, or public utilities, or materials or equipment of similar nature.

      12.   Canning and preserving.

      13.   Canvas and canvas products.

      14.   Carpet and rug cleaning.

      15.   Carpet manufacturing.

      16.   Carting, express hauling or storage yards.

      17.   Cement block manufacture.

      18.   Ceramic products, pottery and glazed tile.

      19.   Chick hatcheries.

      20.   Cigarettes and cigars.

      21.   Cleaning and dyeing establishments when employing facilities for handling more than one thousand (1,000) pounds of dry goods per day.

      22.   Coated fabrics, except rubberized.

      23.   Cork and cork products.

      24.   Craft grower.

      25.   Creameries and dairies.

      26.   Cultivation center.

      27.   Distribution facility.

      28.   Drapery and bedding manufacture.

      29.   Drugs and pharmaceutical products.

      30.   Dwelling accommodations as may be needed to house a caretaker or watchman employed on the premises, and their families.

      31.   Electrical motors and generators.

      32.   Engraving.

      33.   Felt manufacture.

      34.   Fire station.

      35.   Fur goods, not including tanning or dyeing.

      36.   Glass products, from previously manufactured glass.

      37.   Health and fitness center.

      38.   Heating appliances and sheet metal products, including stoves and ranges.

      39.   Hosiery manufacture.

      40.   Ice cream and ice manufacture.

      41.   Laundries, more than one thousand (1,000) pounds capacity.

      42.   Machine shops and metal products manufacture, when not equipped with heavy punch presses, drop forges, riveting and grinding machines or any other equipment which may create noise, vibrations, smoke, odors, heat, glare or fire hazards, disturbing to adjacent property occupants.

      43.   Metal polishing and plating.

      44.   Municipal or private recreational building.

      45.   Musical instruments.

      46.   Parks, public or private.

      47.   Perfumes and cosmetics.

      48.   Pianos and organs.

      49.   Plastic products, but not including the processing of the raw materials.

      50.   Police, fire and rescue station.

      51.   Post office, drop off and pick up.

      52.   Processing organization.

      53.   Public utility electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gasholder stations.

      54.   Public utility facilities: filtration plant, heat or power plant, water reservoir or pumping station.   

      55.   Radio/TV, transmitting or antenna tower, commercial.

      56.   Railroad right-of-way.

      57.   Railroad station.

      58.   Research facilities with experimental, testing or development activities.

      59.   Rubber products (small), such as washers, gloves, footwear and bathing caps, but excluding rubber and synthetic rubber processing.

      60.   Shoes and boots.

      61.   Sporting and athletic equipment.

      62.   Stone, marble and granite grinding and cutting.

      63.   Storage and sale of trailers, farm implements and other similar equipment on an open lot.

      64.   Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oil in tanks, each of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or less capacity, but only after the location and protective measures have been approved by local governing officials.

      65.   Textiles; spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing.

      66.   Tool and die shops.

      67.   Tools and hardware, such as hand tools, bolts, nuts, screws, cutlery, house hardware, locks and plumbing appliances.

      68.   Toys and children's vehicles.

      69.   Transporting organization.

      70.   Truck, tractor, trailer or bus storage yards.

      71.   Wholesale trade establishment.

      72.   Wire brush manufacture.

      73.   Accessory uses, clearly secondary to the principal use of the property or building, provided they occupy in the aggregate not more than 20% of the floor area of such building.

      74.   Any other similar type use not specifically listed herein, that is compatible with the established uses on adjoining properties.

   (B)   Special Uses:

      1.   Airport/landing field/strip (subject to FAA).

      2.   Amusement centers.

      3.   Auditorium, public.

      4.   Automobile fuel and service stations, including vehicle washing facilities.

      5.   Automobile/truck and recreational vehicle sales.

      6.   Automobile/truck stops.

      7.   Bus terminal.

      8.   Child care center.

      9.   Dispensing organization.

      10.   Excavation of gravel, sand or raw material.

      11.   Fair grounds/permanent carnivals, public or private.

      12.   Freight terminal.

      13.   Penal or correctional institution.

      14.   Recycling center.

      15.   Recycling plant.

      16.   Self-service storage facility.

      17.   Stadium/arena.

      18.   Telephone exchanges, antenna towers.

      19.   Emergency shelter/mission.

      20.   Schools: Dance.

   (C)   Height: No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed a height of four (4) stories nor shall it exceed forty-five feet (45') in height, except as provided in Chapter 3.

   (D)   Yard Area: The maximum ground area occupied by all buildings shall be not more than sixty percent (60%) of the area of the lot or tract on which a building permit has been issued.

      1.   Front Yard: There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than fifty feet (50') wherein there shall be no structure of any kind, open storage of materials or equipment or the parking of vehicles.

      2.   Side Yard: There shall be a minimum side yard of not less than fifteen feet (15') on both sides of the building, except where the property is adjacent to a manufacturing district, in which event no side yard shall be required but where the property is adjacent to a residential district, there shall be a side yard of not less than twenty five feet (25') on the side nearest to residential lots. The parking of private automobiles may be permitted within the side yard areas, but not closer than five feet (5') to any lot zoned for residential use.

   Refer to Chapter 14 for Buffer Yard Requirements.

      3.   Rear Yard: A rear yard is not required except where a lot abuts upon any Residential District, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than thirty feet (30'), and no storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of automobiles shall take place within ten feet (10') closest to any residential lot. (Ord. 1973, 1-6-1997; amd. Ord. 2806, 1-3-2011; Ord. 2843, 9-19-2011; Ord. 3178, 12-2-2019)

   (A)   Permitted Uses: The uses permitted in this District generally include those manufacturing and industrial activities which cannot be operated economically without creating some conditions which may be obnoxious or objectionable to the occupants of adjoining properties and for that reason must be grouped in areas where similar industrial uses are now located or where the permitted uses will be best located in accordance with the comprehensive land use plan of the City, which is designed to protect the welfare of the community. All uses shall conform with the standards enumerated in Chapter 15: Environmental Performance Standards. Permitted uses are:

      1.   Any use permitted in the LM District, excluding Municipal or private recreational building.

      2.   Aircraft, assembly and testing of fuselage and motors.

      3.   Alcoholic beverages.

      4.   Asbestos and asbestos products.

      5.   Automobiles, trucks and trailers.

      6.   Blacksmith shop.

      7.   Blast furnaces, steel works or rolling mills.

      8.   Boiler works.

      9.   Box and crate manufacture.

      10.   Brass foundry.

      11.   Brick, tile and terra cotta manufacture.

      12.   Building materials, such as prefabricated houses, composition wallboards, partitions and panels.

      13.   Cement products.

      14.   Charcoal.

      15.   Chalk.

      16.   Chemicals, not including those which may be inflammable or explosive.

      17.   Coffin manufacture.

      18.   Cooperage works.

      19.   Corrugated metal products.

      20.   Cotton ginning and cotton wadding.

      21.   Cottonseed oil.

      22.   Craft grower.

      23.   Cultivation center.

      24.   Dyes, aniline, ink pigments and others.

      25.   Feed milling and processing.

      26.   Gelatin, vegetable and animals.

      27.   Glass blowing and manufacture.

      28.   Grain elevators.

      29.   Graphite and graphite products.

      30.   Hemp products.

      31.   Ink from primary raw materials, including colors and pigment.

      32.   Salvage yards and automobile wrecking yards.

      33.   Linoleum.

      34.   Lumber, preserving treatment, processing, sawmills and planing mills.

      35.   Machinery, heavy manufacturing and repair, including electrical, construction, mining and agriculture.

      36.   Meat and fish products, packing and processing of, but not including slaughtering and glue and size manufacturing.

      37.   Metal foundries and casting.

      38.   Metal stamping and extrusion of metal products.

      39.   Motor testing or internal combustion motors.

      40.   Porcelain products, such as bathroom and kitchen equipment.

      41.   Processing organization.

      42.   Railroad equipment, such as railroad car and locomotive manufacture.

      43.   Recycling center.

      44.   Recycling plant.

      45.   Rubber products, including tires and tubes and tire recapping.

      46.   Transporting organization.

      47.   Wax products, manufacture from paraffin.

      48.   Wool scouring and pulling.

   (B)   Special Uses: In addition to the foregoing the following uses may be permitted if located more than five hundred feet (500') from any part of a Residential District.

      1.   Any special use allowed in the LM District.

      2.   Acetylene gas manufacture.

      3.   Acid manufacture.

      4.   Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture.

      5.   "Animal Control Facility" as defined in Section 2.18 of the Animal Control Act   (510 ILCS 5/2.18)

      6.   Animal slaughterhouse and stockyards.

      7.   Arsenal.

      8.   Asphalt manufacture or refining.

      9.   Celluloid manufacture or treatment.

      10.   Cement, gypsum, lime or plaster of paris manufacture.

      11.   Coke ovens.

      12.   Creosote treatment or manufacture.

      13.   Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture.

      14.   Dispensing organization.

      15.   Distillation of bones, coal or wood.

      16.   Dyestuff manufacture.

      17.   Fat rendering.

      18.   Fertilizer manufacture.

      19.   Fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage.

      20.   Gas (illuminating or heating) manufacture.

      21.   Glue, sizing or gelatin manufacture.

      22.   Gunpowder manufacture and storage.

      23.   Incinerator or reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse, except for Municipal purposes.

      24.   Petroleum refining.

      25.   Recycling center.

      26.   Rock crushing.

      27.   Rubber or gutta percha manufacture or treatment.

      28.   Saltworks.

      29.   Sauerkraut, sausage or bologna manufacture.

      30.   Smelters.

      31.   Stone mill or quarry.

      32.   Sulfuric, nitric, hydrochloric or picric acid manufacture.

      33.   Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining.

      34.   Tar distillation or manufacture.

      35.   Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture.

      36.   Vinegar manufacture.

      37.   Yeast plant.

      38.   And in general those uses which have been declared a nuisance in any court of record or which is or may be unreasonably obnoxious or offensive in the opinion of the Building Official by reason of the emission of odor, vapor, smoke, gas or noise.

   (C)   Height: No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed a height of six (6) stories or seventy-five feet (75') except as provided in Chapter 3.

   (D)   Yard Areas:

      1.   Front Yard: No front yard shall be required when all of the frontage on one side of the street between intersecting streets, a public area or a railroad right of way is located in a GM Manufacturing District. Where the frontage on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets is located partially in a GM Manufacturing District and partially in some other use district, the front yard requirements of the other use district shall apply to the GM Manufacturing District.

      2.   Side Yards: The same as required in the LM Manufacturing District.

         Refer to Chapter 14 for Buffer Yard Requirements.

      3.   Rear Yards: The same as required in the LM Manufacturing District. (Ord. 1973, 1-6-1997; amd. Ord. 2919, 7-15-2013; Ord. 2962, 4-20-2015; Ord. 3178, 12-2-2019)