The manufacturing districts set forth herein are established to protect public health, safety, comfort, convenience and the general welfare, and to protect the economic base of the city as well as the value of real estate by regulating manufacturing development in appropriate locations. These general objectives include, among others, the following specific objectives:

   (A)   To protect established residential areas, and the health of families living therein, by restricting those nearby manufacturing activities which may create offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare, fire hazards and other objectionable influences, to those areas which are appropriate therefor.

   (B)   To provide adequate space in appropriate locations for all types of manufacturing and related activities so that economic structure of the community may be strengthened, and that employment opportunities may be found in the interest of public prosperity and welfare.

   (C)   To provide more space for manufacturing activities in locations accessible to rail and highways, so that the movement of raw materials, finished products and employees can be carried on efficiently and with a minimum of danger to public life and property.

   (D)   To establish proper standards of performance which will restrict obnoxious manufacturing activities while at the same time encourage and permit the manufacturing activities which have adopted facilities for the processing of finished products without adversely affecting the health, happiness, safety, convenience and welfare of the people living and working in nearby areas.

   (E)   To protect manufacturing districts from incompatible uses of land by prohibiting the use of such space for new residential development, thereby preserving the land for a more appropriate use in accordance with the plans for city improvement and development.

   (F)   To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well considered plan of land use for all of the city, to conserve the use of property, to promote stability of manufacturing activities and related development, and to protect the character and established development in each area of the community, to enhance and stabilize the value of land and to protect the tax base of the city. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

Since most uses permitted in this district will be in close proximity to residential districts, it is hereby declared that performance standards shall be high, and that all manufacturing, processing or assembly of materials and products must be carried on in a manner not injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission of odors, fumes, or gases, dust, smoke, noise, vibrations or fire hazards. Permitted uses are:

Any use permitted in a B district, but not including residences or apartments, except such dwelling accommodations as may be needed to house a caretaker or watchman employed on the premises, and their families.

Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.

Artificial limb manufacture.

Automobile and truck repair (major), painting, upholstering, reconditioning, and body and fender repairing when done within the confines of a structure.

Batteries, manufacture and rebuilding.

Bedspring and mattress manufacture.

Belting manufacture.

Bicycle manufacture.

Boat building and repair.

Brooms and brushes manufacture.

Building equipment yards; yards for building materials; lumber, coal, sand and gravel yard; and yards for contracting equipment, maintenance or operating equipment of public agencies, or public utilities, or materials or equipment of similar nature.

Bus line shops and garages.

Canning and preserving.

Canvas and canvas products manufacture.

Carpet and rug cleaning.

Carpet manufacture.

Cartage (local), express hauling or storage yards.

Cement block manufacture.

Ceramic products, pottery and glazed tile manufacture.

Chick hatcheries.

Cigarette and cigar manufacture.

Cleaning and dyeing establishments when employing facilities for handling more than one thousand (1,000) pounds of dry goods per day.

Coated fabrics, except rubberized, manufacture.

Cork and cork products manufacture.

Creameries and dairies.

Drapery and bedding manufacture.

Drugs and pharmaceutical products manufacture.

Electric motor and generators manufacture.

Engraving.

Felt manufacture.

Fur goods, not including tanning or dyeing, manufacture.

Glass products, from previously manufactured glass.

Heating appliances and sheet metal products, including stoves and ranges, manufacture.

Hosiery manufacture.

Ice cream and ice manufacture.

Kennel with outdoor pens and runs.

Laundries, more than one thousand (1,000) pounds' daily capacity.

Machine shops and metal products manufacture, when not equipped with heavy (exceeding 50 ton pressure) punch presses, drop forges, riveting and grinding machines or any other equipment which may create noise, vibration, smoke, odors, heat, glare or fire hazards.

Metal polishing and plating.

Motor freight terminal, private.

Musical instruments manufacture.

Perfumes and cosmetics manufacture.

Pianos and organs manufacture.

Plastic products, but not including the processing of the raw materials, manufacture.

Public utility electric substations, and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations.

Rubber products (small), such as washers, gloves, footwear and bathing caps, but excluding rubber and synthetic rubber processing, manufacture.

Shoes and boots manufacture.

Sporting and athletic equipment manufacture.

Stone, marble and granite grinding and cutting.

Storage and sale of trailers, farm implements, and other similar equipment on an open lot.

Storage of household goods.

Textiles; spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing.

Tool and die shops.

Tools and hardware, such as hand tools, bolts, nuts, screws, cutlery, house hardware, locks and plumbing appliances, manufacture.

Toys and children's vehicles, manufacture.

Truck terminal, including exchange and handling of freight.

Truck, tractor or bus storage of parking yard, lot or garage.

Wire brush manufacture.

Any other manufacturing establishment that can be operated in compliance with the requirements of this section, without creating objectionable noises, odor, dust, smoke, gas, fumes or vapor, and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

No building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered to exceed a height of four (4) stories nor shall it exceed forty five feet (45') in height, except as provided in section 9-1-6 of this title. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

The maximum ground area occupied by all buildings shall be not more than sixty percent (60%) of the area of the lot or tract on which a building permit has been issued.

   (A)   Front Yard: There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than twenty five feet (25') wherein there shall be no structure of any kind, open storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of vehicles; where established building line is less, the established building line governs the front yard.

   (B)   Side Yard: There shall be a minimum side yard of not less than fifteen feet (15') on both sides of the building or buildings, but where the property is adjacent to an R district, there shall be a side yard of not less than twenty five feet (25') on the side nearest to residential lots. The parking of private automobiles may be permitted within the side yard areas, but not closer than five feet (5') to any lot zoned for residential use.

   (C)   Rear Yard: A rear yard is not required except where a lot abuts upon an R district, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than thirty feet (30'), and no storage of materials or equipment or the parking of automobiles shall take place within the ten feet (10') closest to any residential lot or lots. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

The uses permitted in this district generally include those manufacturing and industrial activities which cannot be operated economically without creating some conditions which may be obnoxious or objectionable to the occupants of adjoining properties and for that reason, must be grouped in areas where similar industrial uses are now located or where the permitted uses will be best located in accordance with the comprehensive land use plan of the city, which is designed to protect the welfare of the community. The permitted uses are:

Any use permitted in the M-1 district.

Aircraft, assembly and testing of fuselage and motors.

Alcoholic beverages, manufacture.

Automobiles, trucks and trailers, manufacture.

Blacksmith shops.

Boiler works.

Box and crate manufacture.

Brick, tile and terra cotta manufacture.

Building materials, such as prefabricated houses, composition wallboards, partitions and panels.

Cement products.

Chalk manufacture.

Chemicals, not including those which may be inflammable or explosive.

Coffin manufacture.

Cooperage works.

Corrugated metal products.

Cottonseed oil manufacture.

Dyes, aniline, ink pigments and others, manufacture.

Feed milling and processing.

Gelatin, vegetable and animal.

Glass blowing and manufacture.

Grain elevators.

Graphite and graphite products, manufacture.

Hemp products, manufacture.

Ink from primary raw materials, including colors and pigments.

Junkyards and automobile wrecking yards.

Lumber, preserving treatment, processing, sawmills and planing mills.

Machinery, heavy manufacturing and repair, including electrical, construction, mining and agriculture, manufacture.

Meat and fish products, packing and processing of, but not including, slaughtering and glue and size manufacture.

Metal stamping and extrusion of metal products.

Motor testing or internal combustion motors, manufacture.

Porcelain products, such as bathroom and kitchen equipment, manufacture.

Railroad equipment, such as railroad car and locomotive manufacture.

Rubber products, including tires and tubes manufacture and tire recapping.

Wax products, manufacture from paraffin. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

In addition to the preceding uses, the following uses may be permitted if located more than five hundred feet (500') from any part of an R district, and also no closer than five hundred feet (500') from any school, public or private; nursing homes or residential care centers; daycare centers for seniors, disabled persons, or children; churches and public parks, and subject to all applicable licensing requirements now in place or hereafter enacted; and subject to the approval of the city council by virtue of compliance with the requirements as established herein, and then only after receiving a recommendation for approval from the plan commission indicating that the proposed application is in compliance with the requirements herein. Said report from the plan commission shall be made within thirty (30) days after the use application has been referred to it by the zoning administrator. There shall be no conditional permitted uses without the express approval of the plan commission.

Adult use establishment (defined under section 3-3-8 of this code). (Ord. 662, 9-21-2009)

No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed a height of six (6) stories or seventy five feet (75'), except as provided in section 9-1-6 of this title. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

   (A)   Front Yard: No front yard shall be required when all of the frontage on one side of the street between the intersecting streets, a public area of a railroad right of way is located in an M-2 manufacturing district. Where the frontage on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets is located partially in some other use district, the front yard requirements of the other use district shall apply to the M-2 district.

   (B)   Side Yards: The same regulations shall apply as required in the M-1 manufacturing district.

   (C)   Rear Yards: The same regulations shall apply as required in the M-1 manufacturing district. (Ord. 233, 7-3-1978)

   (A)   Ground mounted satellite earth stations and microwave relay towers may be erected in industrial districts to the maximum building height applicable in the underlying zoning districts, provided:

      1.   They are not located within the front yard.

      2.   The visual impact of the satellite earth stations and microwave relay towers is reduced by landscaping or opaque fencing.

      3.   If the subject parcel abuts upon a residential district, all antennas shall be placed a minimum of ten feet (10') from any lot line, and be effectively screened by a solid fence, wall, or dense screening hedge to a minimum height of six feet (6'). Such fence, wall or hedge shall be located on or near the lot line abutting the residential district and shall otherwise comply with the applicable zoning requirements governing its location.

      4.   The satellite earth station shall be painted a solid neutral color, shall exhibit no alphabetical information and shall be located on a cement pad not less than four feet by four feet (4' x 4') in length and width.

   (B)   No satellite earth station or microwave relay antenna may be located on any roof except as follows:

      1.   Satellite earth stations and microwave relay antennas shall not be clearly visible from any parcel lying along an enjoining street that is zoned R-1, R-2 or R-3.

      2.   Roof mounted satellite earth stations or microwave relay antennas shall not exceed four feet (4') in diameter.

      3.   Roof mounted satellite earth stations and microwave relay antennas and their accompanying support structures shall be painted a solid neutral color and shall not exhibit any advertising.

      4.   Satellite earth stations and microwave relay antennas which are mounted on a roof surface shall require a building permit to ensure compliance with the city's building code and to ensure the structural integrity of the subject roof. (Ord. 384, 5-4-1992)