This district is intended to accommodate wholesaling, distribution, storage, processing, keep manufacturing and industry and light manufacturing. Certain related structures and uses required to serve the needs of such uses are permitted outright or are permissible as special exceptions subject to restrictions and requirements intended to best fulfill the intent of this ordinance. This district allows manufacturing and industrial uses having moderately objectionable environmental influences by reason of the emission of odor, heat, smoke, noise, or vibration. The uses included must be approved as a Specific Use Permit when located on a 40-acre or larger tract in accordance with Chapter 22. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

Principal uses permitted in the IM Industrial Moderate Manufacturing and Industry district are as follows:

   A.   Any use permitted in the IL Industrial Light district.

   B.   Moderate Manufacturing and Industry.

      1.   Aircraft and Aerospace Parts Manufacturing and Remanufacturing

      2.   Alcohol Manufacturing

      3.   Aluminum, Brass, Copper Foundry

      4.   Batch Plant

      5.   Beverage Manufacturing

      6.   Boiler or Forage Works

      7.   Brewery

      8.   Canning and Preserving of Fruits/Vegetables

      9.   Cellophane Manufacturing

      10.   Celluloid Manufacturing

      11.   Cheese Manufacturing

      12.   Chipping of Trees and Shrubs

      13.   Chrome Plating

      14.   Concrete Ready-Mix Plant

      15.   Confectionery and Related Products - Manufacturing

      16.   Cooperage Works

      17.   Corrugated Metal Manufacturing

      18.   Cotton Baling, Compressing and Ginning

      19.   Cotton Storage, Open

      20.   Cottonseed Oil Milling

      21.   Cultured Marble Manufacturing

      22.   Cutlery, Hand Tools, General Hardware - Manufacturing

      23.   Dairy Products Manufacturing

      24.   Die Casting Manufacturing

      25.   Diesel Engine Repairs

      26.   Dyestuff Manufacturing

      27.   Electronic Components and Accessories - Manufacturing

      28.   Electrical Lighting and Wiring Equipment - Manufacturing

      29.   Electrical Machinery, Equipment and Supplies - Manufacturing

      30.   Electroplating

      31.   Fabricated Metal Products, NEC - Manufacturing

      32.   Feed Grinding and Processing

      33.   Fiberglass Products Manufacturing

      34.   Flat Glass - Manufacturing

      35.   Flavor Extracts and Flavoring Syrups Manufacturing, NEC

      36.   Flour Mills

      37.   Food Products, Manufacturing

      38.   Foundry, Nonferrous Metals

      39.   Fur Goods - Manufacturing

      40.   Furniture and Fixtures - Manufacturing

      41.   Galvanizing

      42.   Gas (heating or illuminating) manufacturing or Storage, except where such gas is to be entirely consumed on the same premises

      43.   Glass and Glassware (pressed and blown) manufacturing

      44.   Grain Elevators

      45.   Grain Mill Products - Manufacturing

      46.   Heat Exchangers, Fabrication

      47.   Household Appliance Manufacturing

      48.   Ice Cream Manufacturing

      49.   Indoor Recycling Center for Metal, paper, Glass and Plastic Products

      50.   Industrial Spray Painting and Other Solvent Use

      51.   Jewelry, Silverware and Plated Ware - Manufacturing

      52.   Lamp Black Manufacturing

      53.   Lamp Shades - Manufacturing

      54.   Leather and Leather Products - Manufacturing

      55.   Liquefied Petroleum Gas Sales and Service, Wholesale

      56.   Livestock Auction Sales

      57.   Lumber and Wood Products Manufacturing, NEC

      58.   Machinery Manufacturing

      59.   Moderate Manufacturing, NEC

      60.   Meat Products - Manufacturing

      61.   Milling, Custom

      62.   Monument Manufacture

      63.   Mortician Goods - Manufacturing

      64.   Noodle Manufacturing

      65.   Oilcloth Manufacturing

      66.   Oil Compounding and Barreling

      67.   Oil Well Equipment Storage

      68.   Other Fabricated Metals Products - Manufacturing

      69.   Paper Products - Manufacturing, Not Using Sulphide Processes

      70.   Pickle, Sausage, Sauerkraut or Vinegar Manufacturing

      71.   Pickling, Fruits and Vegetables; Salad Dressings - Manufacturing

      72.   Planing Mill

      73.   Plastics, Blow Molding and Injection Molding

      74.   Pottery and Related Products - Manufacturing

      75.   Prefabricated House Manufacturing

      76.   Prestressed and Pretensioned Concrete Products

      77.   Printing Ink Manufacturing

      78.   Radioactive Service Company

      79.   Rayon or Cellophane Manufacturing

      80.   Ready Built House Manufacturing

      81.   Refrigerator Manufacturing

      82.   Sandblasting (indoor)

      83.   Sash and Door Manufacturing

      84.   Sausage Manufacturing

      85.   Shoddy Manufacturing (low grade cotton or wool)

      86.   Shoe Polish Manufacturing

      87.   Sighting and Fire Control Equipment - Manufacturing

      88.   Signs and Advertising Displays - Manufacturing

      89.   Small Arms Manufacturing

      90.   Soybean Oil Milling

      91.   Space Vehicle Manufacturing

      92.   Starch, Glucose, Dextrin Manufacturing

      93.   Wrecker Service and Storage of Abandoned or Inoperative Vehicles reclaimed from Highway/Streets for 60 days or less (excludes salvaged or dismantled vehicles)

      94.   Store Fixture Manufacturing

      95.    Tank and Tank Components - Manufacturing

      96.   Textile Mill - Manufacturing

      97.   Tire Recapping

      98.   Tobacco - Manufacturing

      99.   Toy, Amusement, Sporting and Athletic Goods - Manufacturing Transportation

      100.   Equipment Manufacturing

      101.   Vegetable Oil Milling

      102.   Vinegar Manufacturing

      103.   Waste Paper Salvage and Reclamation

      104.   Wool Scouring, Hair Manufacturing

      105.   Yeast Manufacturing

   Use Conditions

      1.   The uses included when located on a lot which is abutting an R District, shall be screened from the abutting R District by the erection and maintenance of a screening wall or fence along the lot line or lines in common with the R District.

      2.   Wrecker Service and Storage of Abandoned or Inoperative Vehicles reclaimed from Highway/Streets for 60 days or less, Vehicles shall have a screening wall or fence with a minimum of eight (8) feet in height.

      3.   All parking areas and drives shall be paved with an All Weather Surface as otherwise required by this Code. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

   A.   Signs subject to the provisions of Chapter 15.

   B.   Other structures and uses which:

      1.   Are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted principal uses and structures;

      2.   Are located wholly on the same lot as the permitted principal use or structure, or on a contiguous lot in the same ownership;

      3.   Do not involve operations not in keeping with the character of the area. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by the Board of Adjustment in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 18.

   A.   Temporary borrow pits for fill dirt and top soil. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

The following uses may be permitted as Specific Use Permit by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 22.

   A.   Mini-storage. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

   A.   Front yard - The depth of the required front yard shall be determined in the following manner: measured from the centerline of the abutting street, add ½ of the right-of-way designated on the Major Street Plan or 25 feet if not designated on the Major Street Plan, to a setback of thirty-five (35) feet on arterial streets and twenty-five (25) feet on non-arterial streets. When a lot has double frontage, the front yard requirements shall be provided on both streets.

   B.   Side yard:

      1.   On the side of an interior lot or the interior side of a corner lot which abut a residential district, a side yard of not less than twenty (20) feet shall be provided.

      2.   On any corner lot, the depth of the required exterior side yard shall be determined in the following manner: measured from the centerline of the abutting street, add ½ of the right-of-way designated in the Major Street Plan, or 25 feet if not designated on the Major Street Plan, to a setback distance of thirty-five (35) feet on arterial streets and twenty (20) feet for non-arterial streets.

      3.   In all other cases, no side yard is required if the buildings are built to the side lot line, otherwise at least three (3) feet of side yard width shall be provided.

   C.   Rear yard - When the IM zoned property abuts residentially zoned property, or the properties are separated only there from by an alley or easement, there shall be a rear yard of not less than fifteen (15) feet, and if the building is to be serviced from the rear, then there shall be a rear yard requirement of thirty (30) feet. Unattached buildings of accessory use shall be setback five (5) feet from the utility easement or alley line, whichever is greater. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No minimum lot area required except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No minimum lot width required except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No limitation except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No building shall exceed forty (40) feet in height. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)