The regulations set forth in this article or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance when referred to in this article, are the regulations in the "M-1" Light Industrial District. This district is intended primarily for light manufacturing, fabricating, warehousing and wholesale distributing, in low buildings, with off-street loading, and off-street parking for employees, and with access by major streets or railroads, in either central or outlying locations.

A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

(1)

Any use permitted in the "B-2" General Commercial District, except dwellings, hospitals, institutions, or other buildings used for permanent or temporary housing of persons, except as described in (a) and (b) of this subsection, below:

(a)

Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises;

(b)

Accessory farm dwellings on a farm of ten (10) acres or more;

(2)

The following uses, and any similar uses which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses permitted; such permitted uses being generally wholesale and retail trade, service industries, light industries that manufacture, process, store and distribute goods and materials and are, in general, dependent on raw materials refined elsewhere, and manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment, as specified, of the following products or similar products:

Chemicals, petroleum, coal and allied products.

Cosmetics and toiletries;

Ice manufacture, including dry ice; Ink manufacture (mixing only);

Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical compounds;

Laboratories;

Perfumes and perfumed soap (compounding only);

Pharmaceutical products;

Soap, washing, cleaning, powder or soda (compounding only).

Clay, stone and glass products.

Clay, stone and glass products;

Concrete products (except central mixing and proportioning plant);

Pottery and porcelain products (electric or gas fired).

Food and beverages.

Bakery products, wholesale (manufacturing permitted);

Beverage blending, bottling (all types);

Candy, wholesale (manufacturing permitted);

Chewing gum;

Chocolate, cocoa and cocoa products;

Coffee, tea and spices processing and packaging;

Condensed and evaporated milk processing and canning;

Creamery and dairy operations;

Dairy products;

Fish, shrimp, oyster and other seafood processing, packing and storing, except fish curing;

Flour, feed and grain (packaging, blending and storage only);

Fruit and vegetable processing (including canning, preserving, drying and freezing);

Gelatin products;

Glucose and dextrine;

Grain blending and packaging, but not milling;

Ice cream, wholesale (manufacturing permitted);

Macaroni and noodle manufacture;

Malt products manufacture (except breweries);

Meat products, packing an processing (no slaughtering);

Oleomargarine (compounding and packaging only);

Metals and metal products.

Agriculture or farm implements;

Aircraft and aircraft parts;

Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication and forming;

Automobile, truck trailer, motorcycle and bicycle assembly;

Boat manufacture (vessels less than five (5) tons);

Bolts, nuts, screws, washers and rivets;

Container (metal);

Culvert;

Firearms;

Foundry products manufacture (electrical only);

Heating, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies and appliances;

Iron (ornamental) fabrication;

Machinery manufacture;

Nails, brads, tacks, spikes and staples;

Needle and pin;

Plating, electrolytic process;

Plumbing supplies;

Scale and fault;

Sheet metal products;

Silverware and plated ware;

Stove and range;

Tool, die, gauge and machine shops;

Tools and hardware products;

Vitreous enameled products.

Textiles, fibers and bedding.

Bedding (mattress, pillow and quilt);

Carpet, rug or mat;

Hat bodies of fur and wool felt (including men's hats) manufacture;

Hosiery mill;

Knitting, weaving, printing, finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods;

Rubber and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing);

Yam, threads and cordage.

Wood and paper products.

Basket and hamper (wood, reed, rattan, etc.);

Box and crate;

Cooperage works (except cooperage stock mill);

Furniture (wood, rattan, reed, etc.);

Pencils;

Planning and millwork;

Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including papier mache products);

Shipping container (corrugated board, fiber or wire bound);

Trailer, carriage and wagon;

Wood products.

Unclassified uses.

Animal pound;

Animal, poultry and bird raising, commercial;

Building materials (cement, lime (in bags or containers}, sand, gravel, shell, lumber and the like) storage and sales;

Carbon paper and inked ribbons manufacture;

Cigar and cigarette manufacture;

Cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats and rugs;

Exposition building or center;

Fairgrounds;

Fur finishing;

Greenhouses, wholesale;

Industrial vocational training school, including internal combustion engines;

Kennels;

Laboratories, research experimental, including combustion-type motor testing;

Leather goods manufacture, but not including tanning operations;

Laundries;

Livery stables and riding academy;

Market, wholesale;

Motion picture production;

Ophthalmic goods;

Plastic fabrications;

Printing, publishing and engraving;

Produce and storage warehouse;

Railroad switching yard primarily for railroad service in the district;

Theater, including a drive-in or outdoor theater;

Tobacco products, processing, storage and treatment;

Truck or transfer terminal, freight;

Wholesale houses and distributors.

(3)

Data centers, subject to the following conditions:

a.

All principal structures shall be set back at least one hundred (100) feet from any property line abutting a property used or zoned for residential purposes or a public park;

b.

A vegetated buffer fifty (50) feet in width shall be required along any property line abutting or across a road from a property used or zoned for residential purposes or a public park; for sites on which seventy (70) percent or more of the existing open space or vegetated area is cleared for the development, the buffer shall be a minimum of one hundred (100) feet in width;

1.

The buffer shall consist of an earthen berm that has a minimum height of six (6) feet and a slope not steeper than two-to-one (2:1) with plantings including a combination of large and understory deciduous trees, large and small evergreen trees, and ornamental trees and shrubs at a rate of one hundred and twenty (120) plants per one hundred (100) linear feet; a minimum of forty (40) percent of the plantings shall be large evergreen trees on minimum 20-foot centers and no more than twenty (20) percent of the plantings shall be shrubs.

2.

Notwithstanding the requirements of this section, use of natural topography and preservation of existing vegetation, supplemented by new vegetation, if needed, or on the outside of a six-foot-tall solid fence, may be substituted for the above requirements when found by the Planning Director to provide visual screening equivalent to the buffer yard with earthen berm.

c.

For sites that abut property used or zoned for residential purposes or a public park, the following noise studies must be prepared by a Commonwealth Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) verifying the maximum sound levels for the development;

1.

A pre-construction study shall be submitted at the time of site plan review evaluating the existing noise conditions prior to the development and model-predicted noise conditions resulting from the development.

2.

A post-construction study of noise conditions at the time of operations shall be submitted at least one (1) month but no more than twelve (12) months after the issuance of the first Certificate of Occupancy for the development.

3.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, if either the pre-construction or post-construction noise study demonstrates the development exceeds the maximum sound levels specified in Chapter 50, Section 50-36 of the City Code as measured at the boundary abutting a property used or zoned for residential purposes or a public park, noise mitigation measures shall be required to secure conformance. Each study shall be accompanied by an affidavit or certificate signed by the PE stating whether noise mitigation measures are required by the noise study. If mitigation measures are required, they shall be designed in compliance with the noise study and shown on the site plan. The Zoning Administrator has the authority to interpret and enforce the Pre- and Post-Construction Study and any necessary noise mitigation measures.

d.

All mechanical equipment, both on ground and roof-mounted equipment, shall be attenuated through sound mitigation measures including, but not limited to, sound muffling materials;

e.

Fencing of the property is permitted, provided that fencing within thirty-five (35) feet of a public street does not include barbed wire or other similar visible intrusion deterrence devices;

f.

Closed-loop systems shall be utilized if water-based cooling is employed for the facility. This requirement may be waived or amended by the Director of Public Works.

(Ord. No. 2025-012, Exh. A, 1-21-2025)

Height, area and bulk requirements shall be as set forth in the chart of article 22, and in addition the following regulations shall apply:

(1)

There shall be a side yard not less than ten (10) feet in width on the side of a lot adjoining a residence district;

(2)

There shall be a rear yard not less than ten (10) feet in depth on the rear of a lot adjoining a residence district;

(3)

Whenever any building in the "M-1" Light Industrial District adjoins or abuts upon a residential district, such building shall not exceed two (2) stories nor thirty-five (35) feet in height, unless it is set back one foot from all required yard lines for each one foot of additional height above thirty-five feet.

The regulations contained in this article are supplemented or modified by regulations contained in other articles of this ordinance, especially the following: Article 19, Off-street parking regulations; Article 20, Off-street loading regulations; Article 23, Supplementary use regulations; Article 25, Supplementary height, area and bulk regulations.