1. PURPOSE. To provide for manufacturing, industrial, and related uses of a limited nature and size, which on the basis of actual physical and operational characteristics would not be detrimental to the surrounding area or to the City as a whole by reason of smoke, noise, dust, odor, traffic, physical appearance, or other similar factors.
2. PERMITTED PRINCIPAL USES.
   1. Assembly, processing, manufacturing and/or storage of the following:
      1. (Am. #16-11) Automotive customizing, auto body shops.
      2. Automotive upholstery and automotive accessories.
      3. Apparel and findings, and related products.
      4. Automatic temperature controls.
      5. Blank books, loose-leaf binders, and binding devices.
      6. Books: publishing, printing, and binding.
      7. Brooms and brushes.
      8. Candy and confectionery products.
      9. Cereal preparations.
      10. Costume jewelry, buttons, and miscellaneous notions.
      11. Curtains and draperies.
      12. Dental equipment and supplies.
      13. Dress and work gloves.
      14. Electrical appliances.
      15. Electronic devices.
      16. Engineering, laboratory, scientific, and research instruments and related equipment.
      17. Envelopes.
      18. Fabrics, broad and narrow woven.
      19. Felt goods.
      20. Flavor extracts and flavor syrups.
      21. Floor coverings limited to rugs and carpeting.
      22. Footwear.
      23. Fresh or frozen fruits, fruit juices, vegetables and specialties.
      24. Glass.
      25. Greeting cards.
      26. Handbags and other personal leather goods.
      27. Hats, caps, and millinery.
      28. Household furniture and furnishings.
      29. Ice.
      30. Ice cream and frozen desserts.
      31. Jewelry.
      32. Knit goods.
      33. Lace goods.
      34. Lamp shades.
      35. Leather fabrication, not including tanning.
      36. Luggage.
      37. Macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, and noodles.
      38. Manifold business forms.
      39. Mechanical measuring and controlling instruments.
      40. Mens, youths, and boys furnishings, work clothing and allied garments.
      41. Morticians' goods.
      42. Musical instruments and parts.
      43. (Am. #11-15) Beverages and their bottling.
      44. Office furniture.
      45. Ophthalmic goods.
      46. Optical instruments and lenses.
      47. Orthopedic, prosthetic, and surgical appliances and supplies.
      48. Paper coating and glazing.
      49. Partitions, shelving, lockers, and office and store fixtures.
      50. Pens, pencils, and other office and artist materials.
      51. Pharmaceutical processing.
      52. Photoengraving instruments and apparatus.
      53. Photographic equipment and supplies.
      54. Pressed and molded pulp goods.
      55. Raincoats and other waterproof outer garments.
      56. Robes and dressing gowns.
      57. Sanitary paper products.
      58. Signs and other advertising display media.
      59. Silverware and plated ware.
      60. Surgical and medical instruments and apparatus.
      61. Textiles, dyeing and finishing.
      62. Tire cord and fabric.
      63. Toys, amusement, sporting and athletic goods.
      64. Umbrellas, parasols, and canes.
      65. Venetian blinds and shades.
      66. Wallpaper.
      67. Watches, clocks, clockwork operated devices and parts.
      68. Women’s, misses, juniors, girls, and infants furnishings, work and dress garments.
      69. Yarns and threads.
   2. Adult Oriented Establishments.
   3. Animal hospitals, veterinary services, and boarding of animals when boarding is not adjacent to residential districts.
   4. Cleaning, dressing, and dyeing.
   5. Commercial bakeries.
   6. Commercial greenhouses.
   7. (Cr. #61-02) Construction services including general building contractors, carpentering, wood flooring, concrete services, masonry, stone work, tile setting, plastering services, roofing services, siding and gutter services, sheet metal services, and water well drilling services.
   8. Electrotyping and stereotyping.
   9. Food locker plants.
   10. Government structures, such as fire and police stations.
   11. Laboratories.
   12. Machine shops.
   13. Newspaper and magazine publishing and printing.
   14. Packaging and assembly of products made from fur.
   15. Pleating, decorative and novelty stitching and tucking for the trade.
   16. Printing and publishing.
   17. Rice milling.
   18. Self-service storage facilities; mini-warehouses.
   19. Typesetting.
   20. Warehousing.
   21. Wholesaling.
   22. Wool scouring, worsted combing, and towing to top.
3. PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.
   1. Garages used for storage of vehicles used in conjunction with the operation of the business.
   2. Off-street parking and loading areas.
   3. Office, storage, power supply, and other uses normally auxiliary to the principal industrial operation.
   4. Roof-mounted solar collectors provided that a registered engineer or registered architect shall certify that the structure is adequate to support the load.
   5. Earth station dish antennas located on the roof of the principal or accessory structure or in the rear yard. Where the earth station dish is roof-mounted, a registered engineer or registered architect shall certify that the structure is adequate to support the load.
   6. Solar energy collectors erected as an accessory structure.
4. CONDITIONAL USES.
   1. Automobile service stations provided that all gas pumps meet the setback requirements of the district and are located not closer than forty (40) feet to any side lot line.
   2. (Cr. #11-16) Buildings exceeding forty (40) feet in height when adjacent to a residential district.
   3. Commercial recreation facilities. (Cr. #17-14)
   4. Dimension hardwood flooring, veneer, and plywood manufacturing and processing.
   5. Freight yards, freight terminals, and transshipment depots.
   6. Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing and storage.
   7. Lumber yards, millwork, saw mills, and planing mills.
   8. Parks and playgrounds.
   9. Processing of feed for animals and fowl, and processing of animal health products.
   10. (Am. #28-08) Public passenger transportation terminals, such as bus and rail depots, but not including airports, airstrips, heliports, helipads and landing fields. Any such use shall be located not less than one hundred (100) feet from any residential district boundary.
   11. Recycling center and/or transfer station.
   12. Residential quarters for the owner or caretaker of an industrial operation.
   13. Resin and chemical compound blending.
   14. Storage of animal feeds, fertilizer, seeds, and animal health products.
   15. Transmitting towers, receiving towers, and relay and microwave towers without broadcast facilities or studios.
   16. Utility substations, municipal wells, pumping stations, and towers provided that the use is not less than fifty (50) feet from any lot line.
   17. Wireless communications facilities as set forth and under conditions authorized in Section 22.21.
   18. Uses similar to and reasonably related to principal permitted uses.
5. LOT AREA AND WIDTH. Lots shall provide sufficient area and width for the principal building and its accessory buildings, off-street parking and loading areas, and required yards.
6. BUILDING HEIGHT. (Am. #11-16) Subject to subsection (4q) above, there shall be no maximum height for a principal building. Accessory buildings shall be less than twenty (20) feet tall and shall not exceed the height of the principal structure.
7. SETBACK AND YARDS.
   1. There shall be a minimum street yard setback of twenty-five (25) feet from the right-of-way of all streets.
   2. There shall be a side yard on each side of all buildings of not less than ten (10) feet.
   3. There shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet.
   4. There shall be a minimum shoreyard setback of seventy-five (75) feet from the ordinary highwater mark of a navigable body of water.
8. EROSION CONTROL. The uses and structures in the M-1 District are subject to Chapter 32 of the City of Waukesha Municipal Code, Chapter 21 of the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code, and any other applicable State laws and administrative rules.
9. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLAN COMMISSION. (Am. #38-02) To encourage a business environment that is compatible with the residential character of the City, building permits for permitted uses in the M-1 District shall not be issued nor shall any substantial changes be made to any site improvements without review and approval of the Plan Commission in accordance with Section 22.15. Plan Commission review shall include consideration of such factors as open space utilization, ingress, egress, parking, landscaping, building plans and the general layout in relationship to the surrounding area.
10. PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS. (Cr. #38-02) The restrictions on lot area, lot width, building height, setbacks, and yards may be reduced or increased if the property is part of a Planned Unit Development Overlay District in accordance with Section 22.52.

(Rep. & recr. #66-01) (Repealed and replaced #2020-14)