§ 12. M-1 Light industrial district.

The purpose of this district is to provide for a wide variety of light manufacturing establishments including assembling, processing, storage, and distributing activities. No new residential development would be permitted except for watchman and caretaker dwelling units. The districts should adjoin good highways and access to railroads is also desirable. In the M-1 light industrial district, a building or premises shall be used only for general light industrial, warehousing, and other uses, including certain open or enclosed storage of products, materials, and vehicles, and including the following uses and any similar uses which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare, or other objectionable influences than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses listed in this section; such listed uses being generally wholesale establishments, service industries, and light industries that manufacture, process, store and distribute goods and materials, and are, in general, dependent on raw materials refined elsewhere and manufacture, compounding, processing, and packaging, as specified, of the following products or similar products:

(a)

Permitted uses:

(1)

Aluminum can processing and recycling center.

(2)

Convenience store.

(3)

Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises.

(4)

Farms and farm dwellings.

(5)

Nursery and greenhouse for growing or propagation of plants, trees, and shrubs.

(6)

Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouses with or without accessory retail sales and offices.

(7)

Compounding of cosmetics, toiletries, drugs, and pharmaceutical products.

(8)

Photographic processing or blueprinting.

(9)

Printing and publishing.

(9.1)

Public service facility.

(10)

Manufacture or assembly of medical and dental equipment; drafting, optical, and musical instruments; watches; clocks; toys; games; and electrical or electronic apparatus.

(11)

Manufacture or assembly of boats, bolts, nuts, screws, and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, electrical appliances, tools, dies, machinery, and hardware products, sheetmetal products, and vitreous enameled metal products.

(12)

Manufacture of food products, including beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, candy manufacture, dairy products, and ice cream, fruit, and vegetable processing and canning, packing and processing of meat and poultry products, but not distilling or brewing of beverages or slaughtering of poultry or animals.

(13)

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

(14)

Manufacture of boxes, crates, furniture, baskets, veneer, and other wood products of similar nature.

(15)

Generally those light 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, or glare than that which is generally associated with light industries of the type specifically permitted.

(16)

[ Reserved. ]

(17)

Banks, drive-in or otherwise.

(18)

Transportation terminal for air, rail, truck, or water transportation.

(19)

Radio and television towers or antennas or earth stations. The setback for such a tower, antenna, or earth station, shall be one (1) lineal foot from all adjacent property lines for every lineal foot of tower, antenna, or earth station height, plus one (1) additional foot.

(20)

Restaurants.

(21)

Sexually oriented businesses.

(22)

Airport.

(23)

Schools, public and private.

(b)

Conditional uses:

(1)

Temporary use of prefabricated buildings or mobile homes for any permitted or conditional use listed above other than accessory buildings.

(2)

Clinic.

(3)

Hospital.

(4)

Tattoo parlors, with the restriction that they may not be located within 500 feet of any school, church, residence or residentially zoned property or park property, with the measurement to be from property line to property line.

(5)

Vehicles impound lots, wrecker/towing service, vehicle recovery and any major storage of equipment or damaged vehicles principally inoperable and stored for a limited period provided all vehicles are completely concealed from all surrounding proeprty.

Conditional use applicants shall submit to the board of zoning adjustments a development plan which meets the requirements of the design review ordinance including but not limited to:

1.

Fencing of solid wall and complete privacy, a minimum of six feet in height, of uniform construction and color.

2.

All drive ways, parking, loading, vehicle circulation areas and vehicle storage areas shall be paved concrete or asphalt surrounded with a minimum six-eighteenths concrete curbing.

(6)

Motor vehicle repair services that operate principally as automotive repair shops, body shops with and without painting booths, full service auto reapirs including major automotive diagnostic and rebuilding services exceeding give vehicles to be stored on the property at one time for periods in excess of five days provided all vehicles are completely concealed from all surrounding property. Such services shall include but shall not be limited to:

1.

Comprehensive auto repair.

2.

Engine installation.

3.

Body shops.

4.

Transmission automotive repairs.

5.

Old, salvaged, and rebuilt auto part sales.

6.

Other related major automotive services.

(7)

Radio and television towers or antennas or earth stations in those instances where more than one (1) antenna or tower structure is proposed upon an individual property that directly adjoins a residential district. The setback for such a tower, antenna, or earth station, shall be one (1) lineal foot from all adjacent property lines for every lineal foot of tower, antenna, or earth station height, plus one (1) additional foot.

Conditional use applicants shall submit to the board of zoning adjustments a development plan which meets the requirements of the design review ordinance including, but not limited to fencing of solid board and of uniform construction and color.

(8)

Cargo containers may be conditionally approved for temporary accessory storage purposes for a period of one (1) year, subject to extension by the board of adjustment for one (1) or more additional one (1) year terms, in connection with any permitted or conditional use listed in this district.

(c)

Minimum area, yard and height requirements. Minimum area, yard and height requirements which govern any use in this district are listed on the chart of regulations [in the appendix to this appendix] unless otherwise regulated in this article.

(Ord. of 2-17-98(3), §§ 1, 2; Ord. of 3-16-99(2), § 3; Ord. of 6-20-00, § 1; Ord. of 3-16-04, § 1; Ord. of 9-21-04, § 1; Ord. of 1-17-06, § 1; Ord. of 4-20-11, § 1(Exh. A); Ord. of 4-17-12, § 1; Ord. of 5-6-14, § 2; Ord. of 5-19-15(2), § 1)