Garden City City Zoning Code
§ XV
DISTRICT M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT USE REGULATIONS.
1.
Permitted uses.
In district M-1 no building, structure, land, or premises shall be used, and no building or structure shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved, or altered except for one or more of the following uses: (For exceptions, see Section XIX, “Special Classes,” Section XXII, “Nonconforming Uses,” and Section XXXII, “Powers and Duties of the Board.”)
(1)
Bakeries.
(2)
Blacksmith or wagon shops.
(3)
Bottling works.
(4)
Bus barns or lots.
(5)
Canning or preserving factories.
(6)
Carpenter, cabinet, or pattern shops, provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(7)
Carpet-cleaning establishments.
(8)
Chemical laboratories not producing noxious fumes or odors.
(9)
Cleaning, pressing, and dying plants.
(10)
Cold-storage plants.
(11)
Creameries.
(12)
Dog pounds, if within an enclosed building.
(13)
Electroplating works.
(14)
Flour mills, feed mills, and grain processing, provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(15)
Forges (hand).
(16)
Freight terminals (rail, truck, or water).
(17)
Galvanized works.
(18)
Garages (public).
(19)
Grain elevators.
(20)
Ice plants.
(21)
Laundries.
(22)
Machine shops, provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(23)
Manufacture or assembly of products such as: artificial flowers, feathers, plumes, awnings, bags, blacking, small boats, bone products, brooms and brushes, buttons and novelties, candy, canvas products, cement products, concrete blocks, chemicals (non-offensive), cigars, cigarettes, or smoking tobacco, cleaning or polishing preparations, clothing, coffee (roasting), cosmetics, cottonseed, peanut, or similar products, drugs or medicines, electric signs, extracts, food products, fruit juices, gas or electric fixtures, ice cream, leather products, light metal products, musical instruments, paper products, shell products, shoes and boots, syrup, terra-cotta or tile handcraft products, textiles, toys, woodenware.
(24)
Milk bottling or distribution plants.
(25)
Monument or marble works.
(26)
Moving, transfer, or storage plants.
(27)
Parking lots for trucks, mobile construction equipment, etc.
(28)
Planing mills, provided that such use is not noxious by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(29)
Plumbing and sheetmetal shop, provided that such use is not noxious by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(30)
Poultry killing or dressing for commercial purposes.
(31)
Produce markets (wholesale).
(32)
Railroad freight cars.
(33)
Sales rooms, yards, and service for farm machinery and contractors’ equipment.
(34)
Stone-cutting plants.
(35)
Storage in bulk of, or warehouse for such materials as: asphalt, brick building materials, cement, clothing, coal, contractors’ equipment, cotton, drugs, dry goods, feed, fertilizer, food, grain, gravel, grease, hay, ice, lime, liquor, lubricating oil, machinery, metals, millinery, oil, paint, materials, pipe, plaster, roofing, rope, rubber, shop supplies, sand, stone, tar, tarred or creosoted products, terra-cotta, timber, tobacco, turpentine, varnish, wine, wood, butane (less than tank-car lots), gasoline (less than tank-car lots), propane (less than tank-car lots).
(36)
Veterinary hospitals.
(37)
Manufacture of any similar character to that herein listed, provided such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, odor, dust, smoke, or gas.
(38)
Accessory uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.
(39)
Molding, casting, and shaping plastic products and compounding, formulating, mixing, and storage or warehousing in bulk of insecticides and pesticides, provided that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, dust, odor, smoke, or gas.
2.
Height and area regulations.
In district M-1, the height of buildings hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved, or altered and the minimum dimensions of lots and yards shall be as follows: provided that buildings erected for dwelling purposes exclusively shall comply with the front, side, rear yard, lot and floor requirements of districts R-1, R-2, or R-3, as the case may be. (For exceptions, see Section XX, “Setback Regulations” and Section XXIV, “Height and Area Exceptions.”)
A.
Height:
Buildings or structures shall not exceed 75 feet and shall not exceed six stories in height.
B.
Front yards:
No front yard is required except that where a portion of district M-1 lies within the block and fronts upon the same street with a portion of a residential district, and no lot within said district M-1 is occupied by a building with a front yard of less depth than required in that portion of a residential district adjoining, then in such case the front yard requirement of such adjoining residential district shall likewise be applicable to such portion of district M-1.
C.
Side yards:
Same as district C-1.
D.
Rear yards:
Same as district C-1.
(Ordinance 2002-518 adopted 3/5/02; Ordinance 2020-708, sec. 2, adopted 8/24/20; Ordinance 2023-916 adopted 9/5/2023)