Permitted uses in the M1 Manufacturing District shall be as follows:

   (A)   Any establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembling, disassembling, repairing, cleaning, servicing, testing, loading or storing of materials, products and goods except for materials, products and goods which are flammable or explosive, and provided that the operations conform with the performance standards and other general requirements applicable to an M1 District. This division (A) shall not apply to any building, structure or use which existed lawfully at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this section;

   (B)   Agriculture;

   (C)   Building;

   (D)   Contractors’ offices and shops;

   (E)   Dwelling units for watchmen and operating personnel and their families when the nature of operations requires such personnel to reside on the premises where they are employed;

   (F)   Fuel and ice retail sales and storage;

   (G)   Greenhouses, including retail and wholesale sales of plants and products;

   (H)   Laundries;

   (I)   Mail order houses;

   (J)   Monument establishments, including accessory open sales lots;

   (K)   Offices, general, private, semipublic or public;

   (L)   Parking lots and storage garages;

   (M)   Printing and publishing establishments;

   (N)   Public open space;

   (O)   Public utility, governmental service and similar uses as follows:

      (1)   Bus transit facilities, including shelters, passenger stations, parking areas and service buildings;

      (2)   Electric distribution centers and substations;

      (3)   Compressor stations, wellhead stations, well separators and other similar above-ground facilities customarily used for the distribution of natural gas as a part of the operations of a public utility company;

      (4)   Gas regulator stations;

      (5)   Public utility and governmental service establishments, including offices, storing, testing, repairing and servicing;

      (6)   Railroad rights-of-way and passenger stations;

      (7)   Telephone exchanges, microwave relay towers and telephone transmission equipment and other such service buildings (no limit on height of towers); and

      (8)   Water filtration plants, pumping stations and reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants and lift stations, public or community.

   (P)   Research laboratories;

   (Q)   Schools, commercial or trade;

   (R)   Training centers, engineering or sales;

   (S)   Warehouses;

   (T)   Wholesale establishments; and

   (U)   Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses, including but not limited to the following:

      (1)   Off-street parking;

      (2)   Off-street loading; and

      (3)   Awnings, marquees and business signs as regulated herein.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .010, passed 2-15-1999)

   Conditional permitted uses in the M1 District shall be as follows:

   (A)   Airports, public and private, on a lot not less than five acres in area;

   (B)   Heliports, public and private, on a lot not less than one acre in area;

   (C)   Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above conditional permitted uses, including but not limited to the following:

      (1)   Off-street parking;

      (2)   Off-street loading; and

      (3)   Awnings, marquees and business signs as regulated herein.

   (D)   Any establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembling, disassembling, repairing, cleaning, servicing, testing, loading or storing of materials which are flammable or explosive, and provided that the operations conform with the performance standards and other general requirements applicable to an M1 District;

   (E)   Restaurant with cocktail lounge, banquet hall and dancing area;

   (F)   Radio and television stations, and towers, transmitting and receiving; and

   (G)   (1)   Cargo containers, as defined in § 155.021, shall be allowed as a conditional permitted use in an M3 Manufacturing Zone only subject to the following minimum conditions:

         (a)   Only two cargo containers will be allowed per lot;

         (b)   Cargo containers located within the village should not exceed a length of 30 feet;

         (c)   Cargo containers shall be located to minimize the visual impact to adjacent properties, parks, trails and rights-of-way through the use of adequate screening. The screening may be a combination of solid fencing, landscaping or the placement of the cargo containers behind, between or within buildings;

         (d)   If located adjacent to a building, all cargo containers must be painted to match the building’s color;

         (e)   All cargo containers must have working doors and locks;

         (f)   Cargo containers may not occupy any required off-street parking spaces;

         (g)   Cargo containers shall meet all setback requirements for the zoning district where they are placed and allowed;

         (h)   Outdoor cargo containers shall not be refrigerated;

         (i)   Outdoor cargo containers shall not be stacked;

         (j)   Cargo containers shall be placed on a level hard surface, such as gravel, blacktop, concrete or other hard surface approved by the Village Board; and

         (k)   Cargo containers must be designed to allow drainage from above and beneath the container. Containers with a flat roof will not be allowed.

      (2)   The Zoning Board of Appeals may recommend and the Village Board may impose such additional conditions as may be deemed reasonable and/or appropriate.

      (3)   No cargo containers shall be allowed within any residential or commercial zoning district within the corporate limits of the village.

      (4)   Licensed and bonded contractors may use cargo containers in any zone for temporary storage of any equipment and/or materials at the construction site during construction that is authorized by the village building permit. Said cargo containers shall not be allowed to remain at any such construction site subsequent to the issuance of an occupancy permit or the completion of construction, whichever occurs first.

      (5)   Any cargo containers which are existing as nonconforming structures at the time of this division (G) shall be removed within one year from the effective date of this division (G).

      (6)   Any person, firm or corporation in violation of the provisions of this division (G) shall be subject to the penalties set forth in § 155.999.

   (H)   Large solar energy system.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .020, passed 2-15-1999; Ord. 2003-5, passed 5-19-2003; Ord. 2020-05, passed 9-21-2020) Penalty, see § 155.999

   Floor area ratio in the M1 District shall not exceed 0.6.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .030, passed 2-15-1999)

   Except as required herein under regulations along residence district boundary lines, and applicable M1 District performance standards, yards shall be provided in accordance with the following:

   (A)   Front yard. Not less than 40 feet in depth;

   (B)   Side yards.

      (1)   Not less than 40 feet wide when adjoining a street or residence district; and

      (2)   Not less than 15 feet wide when adjoining an interior lot line.

   (C)   Rear yard. Not less than 25 feet in depth; except when adjoining a railroad right-of-way, the rear yard may be measured from the centerline of the railroad right-of-way, and except when adjoining a residence district, the rear yard shall be not less than 40 feet in depth; and

   (D)   Yard requirements for existing buildings or structures. Where manufacturing buildings or structures existing on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter have yards of less dimension than those required herein, any expansion of such buildings or structures shall, in lieu of the above requirements, be required to provide yards having a minimum depth or width equal to those provided by such buildings or structures on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter; provided that the lot upon which the manufacturing building or structure is located does not adjoin a residence district.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .040, passed 2-15-1999)

   Business signs are permitted subject to the conditions set forth herein.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .050, passed 2-15-1999)

   Signs on awnings shall be exempt from the limitations imposed by this chapter on the projection of signs from the face of the wall of any building or structure; provided that any sign located on the awning shall be affixed flat to the surface thereof, shall be nonilluminated and shall indicate only the name or address of the establishment. Further, no such sign shall extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of the awning.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .060, passed 2-15-1999)

   Signs may have constant illumination; provided that such a sign located in direct line of vision of any traffic control signal shall not have illumination of red, green or amber color. Where a sign is illuminated by light reflected upon it, direct rays of light shall not beam upon any part of any existing residential buildings, nor into a residence district, or into a street.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .070, passed 2-15-1999)

   The gross area in square feet of all signs on a lot shall not exceed four times the lineal feet of street frontage of such lot.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .080, passed 2-15-1999)

   Signs shall be affixed flat against the building walls and may project therefrom not more than 18 inches and shall not project higher than five feet above building height, except one ground sign shall be permitted along each side of a lot fronting on a street. Ground signs shall be located not less than 20 feet from a lot line, shall not project higher than 30 feet above curb level, and if located within six feet of a sidewalk, driveway or parking area, or within 50 feet (or greater distance if required by state law) of the intersection of two or more streets, shall have its lowest elevation at least 12 feet above the curb level, or 12 feet above the highest grade of the street pavement at the street intersection or 12 feet above the grade of the sidewalk, driveway or parking area directly opposite the sign, whichever is the higher grade. The gross surface area of a ground sign shall be subtracted from the gross surface area permitted for gross area of signs herein.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .090, passed 2-15-1999)

   For industrial parks, one additional ground sign facing each street frontage may be erected. Such ground sign shall have a gross surface area of not more than 200 square feet, which shall be in addition to the gross surface area permitted for gross area of signs herein.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .100, passed 2-15-1999)

    Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be in accordance with regulations set forth in this chapter.

(Ord. 1999-2, Zoning § 17, subs. .110, passed 2-15-1999)