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Riverdale City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VII

M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

SECTION 70 TITLE.

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.

SECTION 71 USE REGULATIONS.

A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
71.01.   Any use first permitted in the "C" Commercial District but not including those uses first permitted in "R-1" or "R-2" Residential Districts.
71.02.   Used car lots provided that use be limited to the display of used cars for drive-away sales and does not include wrecking or salvage operations.
71.03.   Repair shop for repair of small tools, equipment and appliances, electrical and otherwise.
71.04.   Electric motor repair shop.
71.05.   Tool, die, gage and pattern shop.
71.06.   Small manufacturing plant using machine tools for production but excluding foundries, smelting operations or any operation giving off objectionable fumes, dust or noise.
71.07 Bottling plant.
71.08.   Private or commercial parking lot.
71.09.   Wood working shop but not to include saw mill.
71.10.   Tent and awning manufacture and service.
71.11.   Upholstering shop.
71.12.   Stone cutting but not to include quarrying.
71.13.   Warehouse.

SECTION 72 HEIGHT REGULATIONS.

No building hereafter erected or altered shall exceed two and one-half (2-1/2) stories nor shall it exceed forty (40) feet in height except as provided in Articles X and XI.

SECTION 73 AREA REGULATIONS.

73.01.   Front Yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than than twelve (12) feet. Where the street is curved, the line shall follow the curve of the street rather than be a straight line.
73.02.   Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of a building having a width of not less than ten (10) feet. No accessory building shall project beyond the side line.
73.03.   Rear Yard. There shall be rear yard having a depth of not less than thirty (30) feet.
73.04.   Intensity of Use. Every lot or tract of land shall have an area of not less than seventy-five hundred (7,500) square feet and an average width of not less than sixty (60) feet, except that if a lot or tract has less area or width than herein required and was legally platted and was on record at the time of the passage of the 1977 Ordinance, such lot or tract may be used for any of the uses permitted by this Article.