The purpose of the limited industrial district, M-1, is to provide for a wide variety of manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale and freight distributing and warehousing and farm service uses appropriately located for access by transportation facilities and utilities as necessary. Certain service uses and open storage of materials are also permitted, but in general retail sales and commercial uses are not permitted.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.1)

(a)

In industrial district M-1, any structure to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses:

(1)

Retail and service establishments as follows in an M-1 district of thirty (30) acres or more, primarily for the use and convenience of employees in the district:

a.

Automobile service station.

b.

Banks and savings and loan offices.

c.

Business and office supply establishments.

d.

Central mail facility or branch post office.

e.

Clinics, medical or dental.

f.

Data processing center.

g.

Employment service or agency.

h.

Offices and office buildings, studios and the like, business, professional or administrative.

i.

Restaurant or cafeteria, drive-in or otherwise.

j.

Retail store for food, drugs, hardware, tools, wearing apparel and convenience goods with floor area limited to not more than five thousand (5,000) square feet.

k.

Security service office or station.

l.

Trade or business school.

(2)

Agriculture, general, and forestry as permitted in the A-2 agricultural district.

(3)

Agricultural or farm implements, manufacture, sale, storage or repair.

(4)

Aircraft and aircraft parts.

(5)

Airports and landing fields, heliports, and accessory uses, provided they shall comply with the requirements of the Federal Aviation Agency, with a conditional use permit.

(6)

Automobiles, tractors, trucks, buses, truck trailers, motorcycles and bicycles, repair and assembly, upholstering, rebuilding, body and fender work; transmission repair service, radiator repair and cleaning, tire retreading, recapping, rebuilding and vulcanizing. Damaged or inoperative vehicles may be stored outside for a maximum of thirty (30) days.

(7)

Blacksmith shop.

(8)

Boats, boating equipment and boat trailers.

(9)

Bolts, buttons, nuts, screws and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, tools, dies, machinery and hardware products, sheetmetal products and vitreous enameled metal products.

(10)

Boxes, barrels, containers, furniture, cabinets, baskets and wood, metal, fiber or plastic products of similar nature.

(11)

Building materials (cement, lime in bags or container, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or reinforcing steel, pipe and the like) storage and sales, open or enclosed, but not manufacturing or steel fabricating or junk storage.

(12)

Carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.

(13)

Circus or carnival grounds, temporary for a specified time period, with a conditional use permit.

(14)

Cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats, carpets and rugs.

(15)

Coal and wood yards, coke storage and sales.

(15.1)

Commercial renewable energy generation, utility scale, including wind and solar energy projects, with a conditional use permit.

(16)

Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

(17)

Cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, soaps, drugs and pharmaceutical products (compounding only).

(18)

Dog kennels, commercial or noncommercial.

(19)

Electrical appliances or electronic instruments and devices, medical and dental equipment, optical or drafting equipment, toys, novelties, games, stamps, musical instruments, watches and clocks manufacture or assembly.

(20)

Engine testing (internal combustion engines) but not jet engines or rockets.

(21)

Exposition center or fairgrounds, with a conditional use permit.

(22)

Exterminating establishment.

(23)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for electrical power distribution and communication service, and underground pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations which are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(24)

Fertilizer storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building, but not manufacture or processing.

(25)

Firewood operation, as defined.

(26)

Food products, candy, chewing gum, cocoa, coffee, tea and spices, beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, dairy products, cheese and ice cream, oleomargarine, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of animals.

(26.1)

General advertising sign, limited in area to two hundred (200) square feet and to a height of twenty-five (25) feet, with a special exception.

(27)

Grain storage, blending and packaging, but not milling except custom milling of small orders.

(28)

Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail.

(29)

Heating, cooling, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies, equipment and appliances.

(30)

Ice manufacture, including dry ice.

(31)

Industrial vocational training school, including internal combustion engines and including heavy construction equipment, materials handling equipment or similar equipment.

(32)

Ink manufacturing (mixing only).

(33)

Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical elements (blending only).

(34)

Janitorial service establishment.

(35)

Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, including combustion engine testing.

(36)

Leather goods manufacture, but not including tanning operations.

(37)

Lumber yard, planing and millwork.

(38)

Machine shop.

(39)

Monumental stone works.

(40)

Motion picture studio.

(41)

Nursery for growing plants, trees and shrubs.

(42)

Paper and paperboard (from paper machine only), but not pulpmills.

(43)

Plating, electrolytic process, in a completely enclosed building.

(44)

Plumbing supplies, manufacture, sale or storage.

(45)

Pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products and kilns (fired by electricity or gas only).

(46)

Printing, publishing and engraving establishment, photographic processing, blueprinting, photocopying and similar uses.

(47)

Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire and rescue stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings, with a conditional use permit.

(48)

Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including paper mache products), paper products, but not manufacture of paper.

(49)

Race track or course, any type, including horses, stock cars or drag strip, with a conditional use permit.

(50)

Radio or television tower more than one hundred fifty (150) feet in height, with a conditional use permit.

(51)

Railroad switching yard, primarily for railroad service in district, team tracks and spur tracks.

(52)

Rifle or pistol range, with a conditional use permit.

(53)

Rubber and synthetic treating of fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing).

(54)

Sand and gravel processing but not extraction.

(55)

Sawmill (including cooperage stock mill) stationery and planing mill.

(56)

Sign painting and fabricating.

(57)

Spacecraft or spacecraft parts.

(58)

Sports arena or stadium, commercial athletic field or baseball park, with a conditional use permit.

(59)

Structural iron and steel fabrication.

(60)

Tobacco products.

(61)

Truck stop or truck terminal, freight.

(62)

Warehouses, wholesale houses and distributors, wholesale market.

(63)

Water well drilling establishment.

(64)

Welding, bracing, or soldering shops.

(65)

Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427 of this chapter.

(b)

The administrator may permit other manufacturing uses similar to those listed above which do not create any more danger to health and safety in surrounding areas and which do not create any more offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, lint, odor, heat, glare or electrical impulse than that which is generally associated with light industries of the types specifically permitted.

(c)

In cases of doubt regarding the nature of a process or use, the administrator may require an engineering report describing the process or use and the probable impact thereof at property lines in terms of the factors listed above or other significant factors as may be associated with a particular process or use.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.2; Ord. of 9-23-02(2); Ord. of 11-24-03(2); Ord. of 12-17-18)

Accessory uses permitted in the M-1 district include, but are not limited to the following:

(1)

Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises.

(2)

Security service office or station.

(3)

Signs as regulated in section 18-284 hereunder.

(4)

Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment or goods normally carried in stock, used or produced in connection with a permitted office, business, commercial or industrial use subject to applicable district regulations.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.3)

Signs permitted in this district are subject to the general sign regulations of article XV, consisting of accessory illuminated or nonilluminated signs as follows:

(1)

Flat signs, no limit on number or area.

(2)

Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one (1) for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to sixty (60) square feet.

(3)

Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet, one (1) for each business or industry on the premises. A group of three (3) or more contiguous business or industrial uses may combine permitted detached sign area to provide a single detached sign advertising the group if there are no other detached signs and if the combined sign area does not exceed two hundred fifty (250) square feet. Detached signs greater in area or height require a conditional use permit.

(4)

Marquee signs, if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to ten (10) square feet.

(5)

Directional signs limited in area to eight (8) square feet, giving directions to motorists regarding the location of parking areas and access drives, shall be permitted as accessory signs and not included in any computation of sign area.

(6)

Signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.4; Ord. of 6-22-98(2); Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

There are no minimum lot size standards for other uses in the M-1 limited industrial district.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.5)

All structures:

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.6)

Buildings in an M-1 district may be erected up to fifty (50) feet in height from grade; except that:

(1)

Belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennae and radio aerials less than one hundred fifty (150) feet in height are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four (4) feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

(2)

Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.

(3)

The board of zoning appeals may grant a special exception to height restrictions under article XVII.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.7; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

Buildings or groups of buildings and their accessory buildings in an M-1 district may cover not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the area of the lot.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.8)

(a)

Compatibility with nearby properties. Any development within the district shall be designed to promote harmonious relationships with surrounding adjacent and nearby properties, developed and undeveloped, and to this end may employ such design techniques as may be appropriate to a particular case, including location of permitted elements, orientation, spacing and setback of buildings, maintenance of natural vegetation, location of access points, size and location of signs, open spaces and parking areas, grading, landscaping and servicing.

(1)

All uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable or offensive conditions at residential district boundaries by reason of odor, dust, lint, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, wastes, fire or explosion.

(2)

Where the side lot line of a business, commercial or industrial use abuts a residential district, a continuous opaque fence, wall, hedge or planting screen of approved design not less than six (6) feet in height shall be provided and maintained along such lot line, but not within fifteen (15) feet of any street line.

(b)

Paved area. Service drives or other areas shall be provided for off-street loading and in such a way that in the process of loading or unloading, no truck will block the passage of other vehicles on the service drive or extend into any fire lane or other public or private drive or street used for traffic circulation. The drives, parking areas, loading areas, and walks shall be paved with hard all-weather surface material meeting applicable county specifications. Pavement is not required in storage areas for equipment, machinery, or products. This provision shall not apply to race tracks with a design capacity of less than ten thousand (10,000) seats.

(c)

Landscaping. Any part of the front yard not used for parking or accessways, shall be landscaped with appropriate planting or, with pedestrian walks, in accord with an approved landscaping plan. In addition the landscape plan shall indicate particular emphasis on maintaining natural vegetation or designed landscaping along surface streams which are to remain and along any lot line which abuts a residential district.

(d)

Fencing. All fencing and screening shall have a uniform and durable character and shall be properly maintained.

(e)

Refuse. Refuse containers or refuse storage shall be located in a paved area and hidden from general public view, either from within or outside the premises, by means of fences, walls or landscaping planting.

(f)

Drainage. Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage. Water from parking and loading sheds shall not be permitted to drain onto or across public sidewalks, or onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.9; Ord. of 5-28-91, § 19-10.9(b))

Off-street parking and loading design standards and space requirements for particular uses are contained in article XV.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-10.10; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))