(A)   This district is intended for light industrial uses with few, if any nuisance characteristics, but also permits commercial establishments not engaged in retail sales and service establishments which are of a type not generally requiring the customer to call at the place of business. The M-1 district is designed to permit manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging or treatment of products from previously prepared materials. It is also intended to prohibit residential uses and intensive retail enterprises as being incompatible with the primary industrial and related uses permitted; however, under "special use" provision, certain retail and wholesale activities may be permitted.

   (B)   All new commercial and industrial development must have public water and sanitary sewer available and be connected to the services.

   (C)   It is the purpose of these regulations to promote sound industrial areas within the community which are also protected from incompatible uses.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006)

   The following are the principal uses permitted by right within an M-1 district. Only similar principal permitted uses are permitted on a single lot. Where more than one principal permitted use is proposed for a lot, the Planning Commission shall determine if the uses are similar enough to be compatible with each other and in harmony with the character of the existing and adjacent principal uses:

   (A)   Office buildings for any of the following: executive, administrative, professional, accounting or writing, clerical or stenographic and drafting;

   (B)   Production, manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging or treatment of goods;

   (C)   Laboratories, research and testing;

   (D)   Restaurants, taverns and other eating or drinking establishments which provide entertainment, food and/or drink on the premises, including "drive-in" services;

   (E)   Commercial schools;

   (F)   Veterinary hospitals or clinics;

   (G)   Public buildings;

   (H)   General contractors;

   (I)   Landscape contractors;

   (J)   Contractor's storage;

   (K)   Warehouse and storage buildings and yards;

   (L)   Billboards, as defined in Ch. 153 of this code of ordinances; and

   (M)   Morgues, as defined in § 155.005 of this code of ordinances.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 08-01, passed 1-22-2008; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 21-05, passed 7-19-2021)

   The following uses of land and buildings may be permitted in the M-1 district by the application for issuance of a special use permit when all the provisional requirements are met with all applicable standards:

   (A)   Retail and wholesale businesses whose principal activity is the sale of merchandise in an enclosed building;

   (B)   Drive-in businesses subject to the site development standards for automobile service stations;

   (C)   Wireless communication facilities;

   (D)   Facilities for the developmentally disabled and physically handicapped, drug or alcoholic patients and correctional institutions, and must be a minimum of five acres; and

   (E)   Service installations and public utilities.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009)

   (A)   (1)   All activities in this district shall be carried on in completely enclosed buildings. Storage may be permitted out-of-doors; provided that, within 200 feet of any other district, the storage shall be in completely enclosed buildings.

      (2)   All outdoor storage shall be effectively screened from public view by a solid, opaque, uniformly finished wall or fence with solid entrance and exit gates. The fence or wall shall be at least six feet in height, but in no case shall the fence be lower than the enclosed storage up to a maximum of eight feet in height. The storage shall be deemed to include the parking of licensed motor vehicles over one and one-half-tons rated capacity. Completely obscuring landscaping may be used as an alternative.

   (B)   Uses in this district shall conform to the following standards:

      (1)   Emit no obnoxious, toxic or corrosive fumes or gases which are harmful to the public health, safety or general welfare, except those produced by internal combustion engines under design operating conditions;

      (2)   Emit no smoke, odorous gases or other odorous matter in quantities as to be offensive at or beyond any boundary of the parcel;

      (3)   Produce no heat or glare to an extent to be detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries;

      (4)   Produce no physical vibrations to an extent to be determined detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries;

      (5)   Does not include in the manufacturing process any production or storage of any material designed for use as an explosive, nor in the use of any material in production; and

      (6)   Shall conform to all local, state and applicable federal pollution control standards, including noise, air and water quality.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006)

   (A)   Minimum lot size. All lots shall have a minimum of one acre and 120 feet frontage on a public street.

   (B)   Minimum yard requirements.

      (1)   All structures are required to have a minimum front yard or setback of not less than 40 feet from the front property line. Side and rear yards shall be no less than 20 feet each, as determined at the time of site plan review. Where a lot in this district abuts a lot in any residential district, no building in the M-1 district shall be closer than 100 feet to the property line of the residential lot.

      (2)   Except for landscape improvements, necessary drives and walks, and parking for office personnel and visitors (up to ten spaces), the front yard shall remain clear of loading, storage or accessory structures. Side and rear yards, except for a landscape strip along the lot boundary ten feet in width, may be used for parking and loading, but not for storage. The side or rear yard may be eliminated where a railroad service to the site is obtained at the edge of the lot.

      (3)   Structures and solid fences or walls shall be a minimum of 15 feet from the property line.

      (4)   When the side or rear yard areas abut land within a residential district and when the yard areas are to be used for parking, loading, unloading or servicing, then the side and rear yard areas shall be effectively screened by an opaque, solid, uniformly finished wall or fence and landscaping sufficient to enhance the area abutting the residential district. The wall or fence shall be at least six feet in height, but in no case shall the fence or wall be lower than the enclosed parking, loading or servicing activity to be screened.

   (C)   Maximum building height. Buildings shall not exceed three and one-half stories in height or 45 feet; provided, any buildings within 75 feet of a residential district shall not exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet.

   (D)   Maximum lot coverage. There is no maximum lot coverage requirement for M-1 districts.

(Ord. 06-14-Z, passed 10-3-2006; Ord. 06-14, passed 10-17-2006; Ord. 09-02, passed 10-20-2009)