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Thomas Township City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

M-1 LIMITED MANUFACTURING DISTRICT

SECTION 17.1.- GENERAL USE REQUIREMENTS.

a.

Enclosed Buildings and Storage Activities: Enclosed buildings and storage activities in this District shall be carried on in completely enclosed buildings. Storage may be permitted out-of-doors provided that within two hundred feet (200') of any other district said storage shall be in completely enclosed buildings.

All outdoor storage shall be effectively screened by a solid, uniformly finished wall or fence with solid entrance and exit gates, which fence or wall shall be at least four feet (4') in height, but in no case shall the fence be lower than the enclosed storage up to a maximum of eight feet (8') in height. Such storage shall be deemed to include the parking of licensed motor vehicles over one and one-half (1 ½ ) ton rated capacity.

b.

Retail Sales and Residential Dwellings: Retail sales and residential dwellings are expressly prohibited except as may herein be specially allowed.

c.

Standards For Uses: Uses in this District shall conform to the following standards:

1)

Emit no noxious, toxic or corrosive fumes or gases which are harmful to the public health, safety or general welfare except those produced by internal combustion engines under design operating conditions.

2)

Emit no smoke, odorous gases or other odorous matter in such quantities as to be offensive at or beyond any boundary of the use on the parcel.

3)

Produce no heat or glare to such an extent to be detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries.

4)

Produce no physical vibrations to such an extent to be determined detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare at or beyond the lot boundaries.

5)

Does not include in the manufacturing process any production or storage of any material designed for use as an explosive nor the use of any such material in production.

6)

Shall conform to all local, State and applicable Federal pollution control standards, including noise, air, and water quality requirements.

TABLE 28 M-1 LIMITED MANUFACTURING DISTRICT USES

Uses By Right

• Accessory uses

• Childcare organizations

• Commercial schools

• Contractor's establishments

• Drilling, operating and maintenance of wells

• Drive-in, drive-thru, and take-out retail establishments

• Incinerators and sanitary landfills.

• Kennels, veterinary hospitals, clinics

• Laboratories

• Livestock auction yards

• Manufacturing and assembly of electronic equipment, or musical instruments, toys, and novelties, pottery and ceramics

• Production, processing and packaging of articles or products

• Professional offices

• Public buildings and utility installations and buildings

• Sewage treatment and disposal installations

• Truck terminals

• Warehouse and storage buildings and yards

• Windmills and wind powered electricity generating devices

Uses by Special Permit

• Correctional camps

• Junk yards

• Motorized race tracks

• Wireless communication facilities

(Ord. No. 97-Z-03, 11-3-1997, eff. 12-12-1997; Ord. No. 13-Z-03, § 1, 10-7-2013, eff. 11-15-2013)

TABLE 28 M-1 LIMITED MANUFACTURING DISTRICT USES