Evansdale City Zoning Code
170.19 M-1
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT.
The regulations set forth in this section and contained in Section 170.10 shall apply in the M-1 Industrial District. The intent of the M-1 District is to provide areas for light industrial uses.
1. Principal Permitted Uses.
A. Any use permitted in the C-2 District, except that no occupancy permit shall be issued for any dwelling, school, hospital, clinic, or other institution for human care, except where incidental to a permitted principal use.
B. Any use permitted in a C-3 District.
C. The following uses:
Automobile assembly.
Carpet and rug cleaning, provided necessary equipment is installed and operated for the effective precipitation or recovery of dust.
Bakeries, other than those whose products are sold at retail only on the premises.
Welding or other metal working shops, excluding shops with presses over 20-ton rated capacity, drop hammers and the like.
Contractor’s equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors, storage and sale of feed and/or fuel, provided dust is effectively controlled, and storage yards for vehicles of a delivery or draying service.
Carting, express, hauling or storage yards.
Circus, carnival, or similar transient enterprise, provided such structures or buildings shall be at least 200 feet from any R District.
Coal, coke, or wood yard.
Cooperage works.
Creamery, bottling works, ice cream manufacturing (wholesale), ice manufacturing, and cold storage plant.
Enameling, lacquering, or japanning.
Foundry casting lightweight non-ferrous metals or electric foundry not causing noxious fumes or odors.
Flammable liquids, underground storage only, not to exceed 25,000 gallons, if located not less than 200 feet from any R District.
Junk, iron or rags, storage or baling, where the premises upon which such activities are conducted are wholly enclosed within a building, wall or fence, not less than six feet in height, completely obscuring the activity. but not including automobile, tractor, or machinery wrecking or used parts yards.
Laboratories—experimental, film, or testing.
Machine shop.
Manufacture of musical instruments and novelties.
Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, instruments and devices.
Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns.
Manufacture and repair of electric signs, advertising structures, sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment.
Milk distributing station other than a retail business conducted on the premises.
Sawmill, planing mill, including manufacture of wood products not involving chemical treatment.
The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food products except fish and meat products, cereals, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, stock feed, flour, and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as bone, cloth, cork, fiber, leather, paper, plastics, metals or stones, tobacco, wax, yarns, and wood.
Facility for transportation, storage, processing, shipping and incineration of medical supplies or wastes.
Locker facility for the storage, processing, distribution and manufacturing of Iowa products, for both retail and wholesale industry.
Facility for commercial parking and storage of passenger vehicles, campers, boats, trailers, tractor trailers, and other vehicles and seasonally stored items and products both within buildings and within a fenced secured area.
Facility for warehousing of wholesale or retail products, that may require certain minor assembly, subassembly or processing.
Facility for manufacturing, processing, distribution, and storage of material and products involving laser technology, circuit board assembly, micro-chips and other aero-space technologies.
2. Accessory Uses.
A. Any accessory uses permitted in the C-2 Commercial District.
B. Any accessory uses customarily accessory and incidental to a permitted principal use.
3. Required Conditions. No use shall be permitted to be established or maintained which by reason of its nature or manner of operation is or may become hazardous, noxious, or offensive owing to the emission of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibrations, refuse matter, or water-carried waste.
4. Height Regulations. No building shall exceed four stories or 50 feet in height, whichever is lower, except as otherwise provided in Section 170.25.
5. Yard Requirements. The following minimum requirements shall be observed subject to the modified requirements contained in Section 170.25.
M-1 District Use | Minimum Lot Area | Minimum Lot Width | Minimum Lot Area Per Family | Minimum Front Yard *1 | Minimum Side Yard | Minimum Sum of Both Side Yards | Minimum Rear Yard Depths |
Dwellings | >> | >> | Same as R-2 District | << | << | << | << |
Motels and Auto Courts | >> | >> | Same as C-1 District | << | << | << | << |
Other Permitted Uses | 25 feet | *2 | 40 feet *3 | ||||
*1 The front yard depth of any lot abutting on a major street shall be measured from the proposed right-of-way lines as shown on the Official Major Street Plan. *2 None required except adjacent to an R District, in which case not less than 25 feet. *3 For every additional foot the front yard depth is increased over 25 feet, the rear yard may be decreased in direct proportion thereto, but in no case shall the rear yard be less than eight feet; and in addition, if any portion of this rear yard area is used for an enclosed off-street loading space, the area above such an enclosure may be used for building purposes. | |||||||