The manufacturing (M1) zoning regulations are established to provide areas within the city for business parks, light industrial development, offices, data centers, and similar uses which provide employment and drive economic growth.

(Ord. No. 4647, § 10, 10-21-2024)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4647, § 10, adopted October 21, 2024, set out provisions intended for use as § 48-1245. For purposes of classification, and at the editor's discretion, these provisions have been included as § 48-1283.

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

(1)

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 subsection 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;

(2)

Agriculture;

(3)

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations;

(4)

Adult-use cannabis craft grower organizations;

(5)

Adult-use cannabis dispensing organizations;

(6)

Adult-use cannabis infuser organizations;

(7)

Adult-use cannabis processing organizations;

(8)

Adult-use cannabis transporting organizations;

(9)

Contractors' offices and shops;

(10)

Gas stations;

(11)

Laundries;

(12)

Monument establishments, including accessory open sales lots;

(13)

Offices, general, private, semipublic, or public;

(14)

Parking lots and storage garages;

(15)

Printing and publishing establishments;

(16)

Public open spaces;

(17)

Public utility, governmental service and similar uses as follows:

a.

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

b.

Electric distribution centers and substations;

c.

Compressor stations, wellhead stations, well separators and other similar aboveground facilities customarily used for the distribution of natural gas as a part of the operations of a natural gas company or nonexempt operations of a public utility company;

d.

Gas regulator stations;

e.

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

f.

Railroad rights-of-way and passenger stations;

g.

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

h.

Water filtration plants, pumping stations, and reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants and lift stations, public or community;

(18)

Medical/research laboratories;

(19)

Schools, commercial or trade;

(20)

Warehouses;

(21)

Wholesale establishments;

(22)

Archery ranges (indoor);

(23)

Cartage, express and parcel delivery establishments;

(24)

Communications and cellular towers;

(25)

Construction equipment sales;

(26)

Commercial laundries;

(27)

Employment agencies/training;

(28)

Fire stations;

(29)

Highway maintenance shops and yards;

(30)

Lumberyards (retail);

(31)

Machinery and equipment sales;

(32)

Machine, sheet metal and welding shops;

(33)

Model home and garage displays and sales, sheds;

(34)

Motor vehicle parts and supply stores;

(35)

Motor vehicle rental/leasing agencies;

(36)

Motor vehicle repair and/or service;

(37)

Museums;

(38)

Multifamily dwellings;

(39)

Newspaper distribution agencies;

(40)

Garden supply stores;

(41)

Parcel pickup, delivery, and packing;

(42)

Parks;

(43)

Police stations;

(44)

Radio and television broadcasting studios;

(45)

Restaurants;

(46)

Riding academies and stables;

(47)

Self-storage (indoor or outdoor);

(48)

Sign stores;

(49)

Swimming pool sales/service;

(50)

Telephone exchange, relay, switching and transmitting facilities;

(51)

Temporary buildings for construction purposes;

(52)

Two-family dwellings;

(53)

Vending machines;

(54)

Welding shops;

(55)

Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above-permitted uses, including, but not limited to, the following:

a.

Off-street parking;

b.

Off-street loading;

c.

Awnings, marquees, and business signs as regulated in division 2 of article XX of this chapter.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.010; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(1); Ord. No. 2506, 9-22-1980; Ord. No. 2711(part), 4-25-1988; Ord. No. 3976, § 22, 7-1-2013; Ord. No. 4313, § 7, 11-4-2019)

Conditionally permitted uses in the M1 district shall be as follows:

(1)

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

(2)

Landing strips (private);

(3)

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

(4)

Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above conditionally permitted uses, including, but not limited to, the following:

a.

Off-street parking;

b.

Off-street loading;

c.

Awnings, marquees, and business signs as regulated in division 2 of article XX of this chapter;

(5)

Any establishments, 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;

(6)

Restaurants with cocktail lounge, banquet hall and dancing area;

(7)

Animal day care centers;

(8)

Coffee shops, tea houses;

(9)

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;

(10)

Farm implement sales;

(11)

Gun shops;

(12)

Hospitals;

(13)

Microbreweries;

(14)

Nanobreweries;

(15)

Planned developments;

(16)

Railroad rights-of-way and passenger stations;

(17)

Recreational areas or camps (private or not-for-profit);

(18)

Colleges and universities, including dormitories and housing accommodations;

(19)

Seminaries, convents, monasteries;

(20)

Slaughterhouses;

(21)

Storage yards (screened);

(22)

Utility substations;

(23)

Cultivation centers.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.020; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(2); Ord. No. 2508, 9-22-1980; Ord. No. 2610, 10-9-1984; Ord. No. 2711(part), 4-25-1988; Ord. No. 3976, § 23, 7-1-2013; Ord. No. 4048, § 6, 11-3-2014)

Lot area shall be not less than 30,000 square feet and lot width requirements shall be not less than 150 feet, except as may herein otherwise be required for a specific permitted or conditionally permitted use.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.025; Ord. No. 3455, § 4, 2-2-2004)

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

(Code 2012, § 17.51.030; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(3))

(a)

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

(1)

Front yard: Not less than 40 feet in depth.

(2)

Side yards:

a.

Not less than 40 feet wide when adjoining a street or residence district;

b.

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

(3)

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.

(b)

Yard requirements for existing buildings or structures. Where manufacturing buildings or structures existing on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this article 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 article, provided that the lot upon which the manufacturing building or structure is located does not adjoin a residence district.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.040; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(4))

Business signs are permitted subject to the conditions set forth in this division.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.050; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(5)(part))

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.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.060; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(5)(a))

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.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.070; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(5)(b))

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

(Code 2012, § 17.51.080; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(5)(c))

(a)

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 statutes) 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 in section 48-1323.

(b)

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 in section 48-1323. Such signs shall be permitted as regulated in subsection (a) of this section.

(Code 2012, §§ 17.51.090, 17.51.100; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(5)(d), (e))

Off-street parking and off-street loading shall be in accordance with regulations set forth in article XXIII of this section.

(Code 2012, § 17.51.110; Ord. of 9-28-1966, § 9(C)(6))