The purpose of this district is to provide appropriate areas within the Village limits for manufacturing and related activities that strengthen the Village's economic base and that are not incompatible with other land uses in the Village.

Permitted Uses. Manufacture, fabrication, packing, packaging, and assembly of products from furs, glass, leather, metals, paper, plaster, plastics, textile, and wood; manufacture, fabrication, processing, packaging and packing of confections, cosmetics, electrical appliances, electronic devices, food (except cabbage, fish, and pea vining), instruments, jewelry, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, and toiletries; freight yards, freight terminals, and trans-shipment depots; inside storage; and any similar uses not specifically listed.

Conditional Uses. Disposal areas, incinerators and sewage disposal plants; manufacturing establishments that require outside storage areas that may be objectionable to surrounding land uses. The Village Board may require solid fencing or evergreen plantings to screen objectionable outside storage areas from other properties or from the public right-of-way.

Prohibited Uses. Residential, education, or institutional uses except a dwelling for a watchman employed on the premises and members of his family; uses in conflict with village or state ordinances governing nuisances; abattoirs, except for slaughter of poultry; acid manufacture; cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of paris manufacture; distillation of bones; explosives manufacture or storage; fat rendering; fertilizer manufacture; dead animal reduction or dumping; glue manufacture; junk yards; petroleum refining.

Within the M-1 District, the following standards shall apply:

● Minimum Lot Area and Width:

o 20,000 square feet, 100 feet width

● Minimum Yards:

o Principal building

■ front 30 feet

■ side 20 feet

■ rear 25 feet

o Accessory building

■ side 10 feet

■ rear 25 feet

● Maximum Building Height:

o 2 stories or 50 feet

● Maximum Building Coverage:

o 50%

● Required Buffer Strips:

o Where the M-1 Industrial District abuts or adjoins along a street line opposite a residential district, a buffer strip of not less than 15 feet shall be provided. Plant materials at least six feet in height of such variety and growth habits as to provide a year-round effective visual screen when viewed from the residential district shall be planted within the buffer strip.