§ 16. M-1 Light Industrial Zone.

A.

The regulations set forth in this section, or set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, when referred to in this section are the regulations in the M-1 Light Industrial Zone. The purpose of this zone is primarily for light manufacturing, light fabricating, warehousing, and wholesale distribution with off-street loading and off-street parking for employees, and with access to arterial highways or railroads.

B.

Use Regulations:

1.

Prohibited Uses. The following uses are prohibited in this zone: Church, library, school, hospital, or any residential use, except that each individual industrial use may provide accommodations for one resident watchman or caretaker employed on the premises, provided that such accommodations are not used for commercial, industrial or office purposes.

2.

Permissive Uses. A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes. All uses customarily incidental to the building or premises shall be maintained on site:

a.

Any permissive or conditional use listed and as regulated in the C-2 zone except as qualified above.

b.

Bottling plant.

c.

Cold storage plant.

d.

Feed or fruit storage or sales (wholesale), provided all outside storage is enclosed by a solid wall or fence six feet high on all sides abutting A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2, or M-H property.

e.

Foundry, casting of lightweight, nonferrous metal, provided there shall be no fumes or odors discernible beyond the premises.

f.

Ice plant (wholesale).

g.

Laboratory (experimental or testing).

h.

Laundry, cleaning, or dyeing works, including rug works, including rug and carpet cleaning.

i.

Uses which must be conducted within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a wall or fence at least six feet high, and which must be solid along the sides of the site facing or abutting land zoned A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H, and provided further that products, items or materials stored on the site are not stacked to a height above the height of the required wall or fence:

(1)

Building material storage and sales.

(2)

Concrete or cement products manufacturing, batching plant, gravel or sand removal activity, stockpiling, processing or distribution provided it complies with the following requirements:

(a)

Any gravel removal activities shall be conducted in accordance with sound engineering practices.

(b)

Depleted land shall be rehabilitated by grading or backfilling with nonnoxious, nonflammable, noncombustible solids.

(c)

Depleted land shall be graded or backfilled so as not to collect or permit stagnant water to remain therein.

(d)

Depleted land shall be so graded or backfilled that it will result in topography in substantial conformity to the land immediately surrounding it and which will minimize erosion caused by rainfall and runoff.

(e)

Concrete or cement products manufacturing, batching plant, or processing of stone shall be conducted in accordance with current environmental pollution controls.

(3)

Contractor's equipment storage, rental, or sale; contractor's yard.

(4)

Fuel storage or sales (wholesale).

(5)

Machine shop, blacksmith shop, ornamental iron shop, welding shop.

(6)

Manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles made from the following materials: Bone, shell, cellophane, cork, fibre, fur, glass, horn, leather, precious or semiprecious metals or gems, paint (not involving a boiling process), paper, plastics, textiles, yarn, tobacco, or wood.

(7)

Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treating, assembling, maintaining, repairing, overhauling, or rebuilding of the following products: Bakery goods, batteries, candy, cosmetic goods, toiletries, dairy products, drugs, pharmaceutical goods, electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios or phonographs, musical instruments, pottery, figurines, ceramics provided only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired by electricity or gas shall be used, signs, including electric or neon, billboards, commercial advertising structures, toys, and novelties.

(8)

Sheet metal working (light), including the making of heating or ventilating products or equipment, cornices, and eaves.

(9)

Truck terminal, tractor, trailer, or truck storage, including maintenance facilities.

(10)

Warehouse.

(11)

Food processing.

j.

Auction of livestock.

k.

Auto dismantling yards, junkyards, storage and salvage yards and yards used for the open storage of materials, provided they are enclosed on all sides by a wall or fence at least six feet high, which must be solid along the sides of the site facing or abutting land zoned A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H, and provided further that inoperative automobile bodies, or parts thereof, are not stacked to a height above the height of the required wall or fence.

l.

Accessory uses to any of the foregoing.

m.

Off-premises sign or advertising structure as regulated in the C-2 zone except that maximum area of any one sign face shall not exceed 672 square feet, plus an additional add-on sign area for cutouts or extensions which may not exceed 34 square feet.

n.

Tire recapping.

o.

Manufactured or Mobile Homes Sales.

3.

Conditional Uses. The following uses may be permitted, if approved by the Zoning Administrator, in accordance with the procedures and under the conditions set out in the Administration Section of this ordinance with additional requirements deemed necessary to safeguard the best interest of the adjoining property, neighborhood and community:

a.

Asphalt batching plant provided the site is enclosed by a solid wall or fence six feet high on all sides abutting A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2, or M-H property.

b.

Poultry or rabbit live storage or killing and dressing.

C.

Height Regulations. The same regulations apply as in the C-2 zone except as provided in the Supplementary Height and Area Regulation Section of this ordinance.

D.

Area Regulations:

1.

Front Yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 30 feet.

2.

Side Yard. None required except on the side of a lot abutting an A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 or M-H zone, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than five feet in width.

3.

Rear Yard. Except as hereinafter provided in the Supplementary Height and Area Regulation Section, there shall be a rear yard having a depth of 15 feet.

4.

Off-Street Parking and Loading and Unloading Spaces. Off-street parking spaces, and loading and unloading spaces, shall be provided in accordance with requirements for specific uses set forth in the Off-Street Parking, Loading and Unloading Regulation Section of this ordinance.

E.

Landscape and Buffer Landscaping. Nonresidential uses facing or abutting on a principal or minor arterial, as identified in the Long Range Major Street Plan, shall provide landscaping as provided and regulated in the Landscaping and Buffer Landscaping Regulations Section of this ordinance.

(Ord. No. 78-66, 7-18-78; Ord. No. 81-13, 5-21-81; Ord. No. 92-18, 12-15-92; Ord. No. 04-1, § 1, 1-13-04; Ord. No. 2006-3, § 1, 2-14-06; Ord. No. 2010-2, 1-26-10, eff. 2-25-10)