The M-1 light industrial district is intended primarily for the manufacture, processing and assembly of articles and nonobjectionable products not involving the use of any materials, processes or machinery likely to cause undesirable effects upon nearby or adjacent residential or business property.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 1, 2-24-83)

No building or land shall be used in the M-1 district and no building shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed or structurally altered which is designed, arranged, or intended to be occupied or used for any purpose other than one or more of the following:

(1)

The manufacture or processing of such products as bakery goods, candies, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, pharmaceuticals, and food products unless otherwise prohibited.

(2)

The manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, fur, felt, fiber, glass, horn, hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious and semiprecious metals or stones, shells, textiles, tobacco, wood, except planning mills, and yarn.

(3)

The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kiln-fired only by electricity or gas.

(4)

Manufacture and assembly of metal products including electroplating.

(5)

Manufacture of musical instruments or toys, novelties, notions, and rubber and metal stamps.

(6)

Machine shops.

(7)

Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radio, television and phonographs, including the manufacturing of small parts such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders and the like.

(8)

Plastic manufacturing, except pyroxylin.

(9)

Ice manufacturing and distributing.

(10)

Boat building, repair and sales.

(11)

Laundry and dry cleaning plants.

(12)

Storage warehouses.

(13)

Welding shop.

(14)

Wholesale establishments.

(15)

Crematory/funeral home.

(16)

Plant nursery and sales as accessory to a permitted use.

(17)

Home appliance repair, hand laundry, job printing shop, locksmith, sharpening and grinding, radio, television and phonograph repair, newspaper printing plant.

(18)

Taxi service establishment.

(19)

New and used automobile, truck and trailer display, sales and repair; repair and service garage, including bumping and painting; auto laundry.

(20)

Hatchery, fish or fowl.

(21)

Sales of new and used motorcycles, sign painting, glass and mirror shop, awning and canvas shop, furniture repair shop.

(22)

Milk distributing stations.

(23)

Diaper and linen services.

(24)

Tire and battery store, retail plumbing and electrical fixtures, lawnmower rental, sales and service, ship chandlery, upholstery shop.

(25)

Pumps and wells, retail and wholesale.

(26)

Taxidermist, research and testing laboratory, pest control agency.

(27)

Clubs, private, noncommercial.

(28)

Machinery sales, storage and repair.

(29)

Wreckers, building and automobile.

(30)

Accessory uses and structures.

(31)

Major office employment centers. "Major office employment center" is defined as an office park or single office building with a gross covered area of over 30,000 square feet and whose uses are consistent with the requirements and intent of the city land use plan. Major office employment centers shall adhere to the requirements of the B-3 business district except that a 20-foot landscaped bermed buffer shall be required where such property abuts a trafficway or a residential zoning district.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 2, 2-24-83; Ord. No. 03-07-1089, § 9, 7-22-03)

The following uses may be permitted in an M-1 district at the discretion of the governing body in accordance with the requirements of article V of this chapter:

(1)

Police, fire protection facilities, public safety facilities.

(2)

Office uses, other than major employment centers subject to the restrictions of the city land use plan, permitted uses in industrial areas.

(3)

Public and private utility services and accessory buildings and structures including but not limited to the following:

a.

Telephone exchange building.

b.

Gas and water regulation station.

c.

Electric power and light substation.

d.

Sewage treatment plant.

e.

Water tower, storage tank, reservoir, water or waste water treatment plant.

(4)

Athletic clubs and health spas.

(5)

Automobile service stations, with or without repairs.

(6)

Sales of used automobile parts.

(7)

Bus terminals.

(8)

Canning or freezing plant.

(9)

Citrus packing and canning plant.

(10)

Excavations, rock pits.

(11)

Salvage and junkyards.

(12)

Restaurants and fast-food restaurants, for the primary use of the employees of the industrial area.

(13)

Toiletries, perfumes.

(14)

Facilities for the manufacture, storage, transfer, loading, mixing, batching, dispensation or sale of creosote, paint, varnish, lacquer, or other preservatives, glue or adhesives, lard, shortening, animal or vegetable oils or similar products.

(15)

Facilities for the manufacture, storage, transfer, loading, mixing, batching, dispensation or sale of insecticides, fertiliz-ers, poisonous gases and similar products; provided, however, that it is not intended that this section prohibit storage and sale of commonly used household or home garden supplies which are containerized at some other location and are packed or stored in small containers as contrasted to wholesale purchases or agricultural users.

(16)

Convenience store for the primary use of the employees of the industrial area.

(17)

Truck sales, new and used.

(18)

Commercial radio, television, microwave transmission and relay stations and towers.

(19)

Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacturing.

(20)

Veterinary clinics and kennels.

(21)

Government facilities not otherwise listed as permitted uses under section 106-487 of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 3, 2-24-83; Ord. No. 03-07-1089, § 10, 7-22-03)

Uses prohibited in the M-1 district include but are not necessarily limited to the following:

(1)

Residential uses with the exception of accessory hotels or motels.

(2)

Acid and corrosive material manufacturing.

(3)

Cement and/or lime manufacture or processing.

(4)

Manufacture or storage of explosives.

(5)

Packing plants, canning plants or slaughter yards.

(6)

Petroleum storage, refining or transfer.

(7)

Stockyards.

(8)

Rendering plants or glue works.

(9)

Pulp or paper mills.

(10)

Parking of automobile house trailers and use of such trailers as living quarters.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 4, 2-24-83)

The following design standards are applicable to the M-1 district:

(1)

Paving. All interior paving shall comply with specifications and standards set forth by and subject to the approval of the city engineer.

(2)

Accessways. In the interest of public safety, no more than two accessways shall be allowed onto any single perimeter public right-of-way and interior accessways shall be no closer than 150 feet from centerline to centerline.

(3)

Utility transmission lines, etc. All utility transmission lines, conduits, conveyances or other devices or apparatus for the transmission of utility services and products, including all franchised utilities, shall be constructed and installed beneath the surface of the ground, with the exception of a main feeder line.

(4)

Solid waste and refuse disposal. Plans for solid waste and refuse disposal shall conform to and be approved by the governing body and county health department.

(5)

Access to perform necessary public services. The developer or owner shall dedicate to the city an easement which city deems necessary for public services and such dedication shall provide that developer or owner shall hold the city harmless for any of its acts performed within or abutting such easements if any loss or damage is caused to abutting property.

(6)

Off-street loading. In no instance shall off-street loading facilities front onto a trafficway as depicted on the county trafficway plan, as amended from time to time, and in no event shall these facilities front onto a residential district.

(7)

Storage. All storage, except storage of motor vehicles used in the operation of a business, shall be within a fully enclosed building.

(8)

Plot coverage. The gross floor area of the building and its accessory structures shall not exceed 50 percent of the plot on which it is constructed.

(9)

Open space. Each plot to be developed shall contain a minimum of 20 percent unobstructed, nonvehicular open space. All portions of any lot shall have adequate grading and drainage, and shall be continuously maintained in a dust-free condition by suitable landscaping with trees, shrubs or planted ground cover. The design of such landscaping and the measures taken to ensure its maintenance shall be subject to the approval of the planning and zoning board and the development review committee.

(10)

Building height. No building shall exceed 45 feet in height excluding appurtenances thereof.

(11)

Distance between buildings. Where two or more separate buildings are erected or placed on the same plot, minimum front, side and rear setbacks shall be provided as required by this section. There shall be a minimum of 20 feet or one-half the height of the tallest building, whichever is greater, between buildings on the same plot.

(12)

Setbacks. Minimum building setbacks shall be provided as follows: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, a setback of 50 feet from the adjacent right-of-way line of a trafficway as depicted on the county trafficways plan, as amended from time to time, shall be required of all owners/developers.

a.

Front: Twenty-five feet from adjacent right-of-way line.

b.

Side: Ten feet on one side of the building and 25 feet on the other side, except that a setback of 40 feet shall be required when abutting a residential district.

c.

Rear: Forty feet.

(13)

Greenbelts. The project area shall be enclosed on the perimeter with the exception of accessways by a landscaped area with a minimum width of 25 feet when abutting a residential district and ten feet on all other perimeters, except where there is a canal separating a residential district from the industrial district; in that event the greenbelt may be a minimum width of ten feet providing the canal right-of-way is at least 30 feet wide. Such perimeter landscaping shall consist of at least one tree per every 20 lineal feet with a three-foot-high hedge connecting the trees. It shall be the responsibility of the owner/developer to carry out this requirement, continuously, and to provide maintenance or guarantee of maintenance subject to planning and zoning board and development review committee approval.

(14)

Signs. All signs shall be subject to the approval of the governing body with the recommendation of the planning and zoning board and the development review committee.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 5, 2-24-83)

It shall be the duty of the development review committee and planning and zoning board and governing body to ensure that the plan provides for an industrial district of efficient and harmonious design so arranged as to create an attractive project readily integrated with and having no adverse effect on adjoining or surrounding areas and developments, and further, that such project will promote the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the city.

(Ord. No. 83-2-497, art. 20, § 6, 2-24-83)