This district is established to provide for manufacturing or other industrial uses at locations all consistent with land use planning principles and industrial location standards, compatible with the surrounding neighborhood, adequately served by utilities and street/highway access, compatible with the natural environment and not in conflict with the City Comprehensive Plan and policies.

   1.   Permitted Uses:

      A.   Photograph processing.

      B.   Sign companies, including fabrication and repair of all types of signs.

      C.   Transfer, storage, moving, freight, and parcel delivery operations.

      D.   Warehouses, wholesale operations, and distributors.

      E.   Lumber yards.

      F.   Building, plumbing, electrical, and general contractor office and storage yards.

      G.   Sheet metal, welding, body, and machine shops.

      H.   Vehicle, implement, and trailer sales and repairs.

      I.   Mobile home sales.

      J.   Repair shops.

      K.   Processing, bottling and distribution facilities for non-alcoholic beverages.

      L.   Sausage manufacturing and sales.

      M.   Preparation, assembly, and packaging of foods.

      N.   Manufacturing and assembling of commercial and household fixtures, cabinets, and counters, but excluding furniture.

      O.   Sales, rental, storage, and distribution of household and commercial fuel tanks.

      P.   Hatcheries.

      Q.   Manufacturing of pottery or similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

      R.   Industrial research laboratories.

      S.   Ice, coal, brick, and stone sales and storage.

      T.   Bag, carpet, and rug cleaning and commercial laundries.

      U.   Concrete ready-mix plants.

      V.   Manufacturing, processing, and assembly of any metal or non-metal products.

      W.   Gas stations, convenience stores.

      X.   Airport grounds including customary accessory uses such as terminals, hangars, flying schools, protective facilities, and parking.

      Y.   Circus, carnival, or similar transient enterprises.

      Z.   Pasturing of horses and raising of field crops.

      AA.   Greenhouses and nurseries.

      BB.   Agricultural services, including elevators, but not including the storage, blending, mixing or on-premises sale, for commercial agricultural purposes, of pesticide, herbicide, or anhydrous ammonia.

      CC.   Truck terminals and municipal garage and yard facilities.

      DD.   Accessory uses.

      EE.   Animal hospitals, veterinary clinics, and boarding kennels.

   2.   Conditional Uses [Performance Standards as provided in Section 165.10(3)]:

      A.   Conditional uses in C District.

      B.   Single-family residence housing a custodian, owner, watchman or caretaker and their family whose employment is directly related to a permitted use of the M-1 District.

      C.   Racing tracks for stock cars, snowmobiles, mini-bikes, and other motorized vehicle demonstrations and exhibitions.

      D.   Public fairgrounds.

      E.   Boarding kennels.

      F.   Junk, iron, or rags storage or baling where the premises upon which such activities conducted are wholly enclosed within a building, wall, or fence not less than eight feet high completely obscuring the activity.

      G.   Businesses whose functions include the bulk storage or on-premises sale of flammable or explosive substances, or the storage, blending, mixing or on-premises sale, for commercial agricultural purposes, of pesticide, herbicide, or anhydrous ammonia.

      H.   Livestock sales barns, stock yards, and related uses.

      I.   Slaughterhouses and any meat or vegetable processing factory.

      J.   Wastewater treatment facilities.

      K.   Rock quarries, rock processing, and gravel pits.

      L.   Chemical manufacturing, refining and storage.

      M.   Any landfill, incinerator, or solid waste collection or recycling services.

      N.   Junk or salvage yards.

      O.   Accessory uses.

      P.   Daycare centers and nursery schools.

      Q.   Telecommunication towers.

      R.   Governmental and semi-governmental administrative and protective facilities.

      S.   Private gymnasiums and physical fitness facilities.

   3.   Special Exception Uses: As provided in Section 165.11(3).

   4.   Minimum Performance Standards For Permitted Uses:

      A.   Lot area and density: 18,000 square feet.

      B.   Lot width: 80 feet.

      C.   Height of structure: not over 45 feet.

      D.   Front yard setback: 30 feet.

      E.   Side yard setback: eight feet.; 12 feet where adjacent to any R District.

      F.   Rear yard setback: 15 feet (two feet for accessory structures)

      G.   Area of structure: 600 square feet.

      H.   Parking: As provided in Section 165.08.

      I.   Signs: As provided in the Chapter 155.

      J.   Drainage: All properties in the Manufacturing District shall accommodate, on the site, to the extent feasible, storm water drainage generated by developed uses in excess of pre-existing natural drainage if there is no storm sewer system. Temporary retention of storm drainage may be allowed to be released gradually into the pre-existing, natural drainage pattern.