The purpose of this article is to establish and preserve areas
for limited manufacturing and related uses of such a nature that do
not create serious problems of compatibility with other land uses
and to make provisions for certain kinds of manufacturing uses which
are most appropriate located as neighbors of manufacturing uses or
which are necessary to serve the immediate needs of people in these
areas.
A.
In the M-1 District, the following uses are permitted by right:
(1)
Airports and airport-related services.
(2)
Automobile service stations, automobile sales, trailer coach sales,
service garages, auto sales lots, automobile assembling, auto body
shops, painting, upholstery reconditioning, vehicle repair or overhauling,
tire retreading or recapping, welding shops and the like.
(3)
Blacksmith and machine shops.
(4)
Bottling works and bookbinding.
(5)
Building materials storage, lumberyards and lumber mills.
(6)
Business identification signs, when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article XVII appearing herein entitled "Signs."
(7)
Carpenter, cabinetmaking, furniture repair and upholstery, electrician,
metalworking, tinsmith, plumbing, gas, steam or hot-water fitting
shops.
(8)
Contractors' equipment, sales, service and storage.
(9)
Distribution plants, parcel delivery and service industries.
(10)
Electrical, optical and textile manufacturing.
(11)
Freight and trucking terminals.
(12)
Hospitals.
(13)
Kennels.
(14)
Laboratories and lithographing.
(15)
Laundries, cleaning, dyeing and carpet and rug cleaning.
(16)
Manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of such
products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs,
pharmaceuticals and food products, except fish and meat products,
sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast and the rendering or refining of fat and
oils.
(17)
Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles
or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone,
cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, film, fur, glass,
hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or
stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarns and paint not employing
a boiling process.
(18)
Manufacturing of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic
products using only clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(19)
Mini warehouse.
(20)
Municipal buildings, municipal uses and state and federal government
uses.
(21)
Office.
(22)
Parking structures.
(23)
Printing and newspaper publishing.
(24)
Public and private recreational uses and activities, such as
parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching and
swimming areas, hiking and horseback riding trails, wildlife and nature
preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries and fishing areas.
(25)
Public utility transmission and distribution facilities, including
substations, water pumping stations and reservoirs.
(26)
Railway or bus passenger stations and telegraph or express offices.
(27)
Wholesale businesses, warehouses and cold storage plants; however,
no warehouse and no wholesale business shall be permitted to store,
handle or receive any hazardous materials or hazardous chemicals,
including but not limited to corrosive liquids, flammable solids,
oxidizing materials, poisonous gas and radioactive material [except
manufactured articles such as instruments or electronic apparatus
whose gamma radiation is less than 10 milliroentgen in 24 hours, highly
toxic material or unstable (reactive) chemicals], and any existing
business constituting a nonconforming use shall be permitted to expand
in area no more than 25% at such location as it is found to be lawfully
in existence.
(28)
All uses similar to the above and not otherwise prohibited by
law.
(29)
Academic clinical research centers.
[Added 2-7-2017 by Ord.
No. 1336, approved 2-21-2017]
(30)
Medical marijuana growers/processors.
[Added 2-7-2017 by Ord.
No. 1336, approved 2-21-2017]
(31)
Medical marijuana transport vehicle offices.
[Added 2-7-2017 by Ord.
No. 1336, approved 2-21-2017]
(32)
Medical marijuana dispensaries.
[Added 2-7-2017 by Ord.
No. 1336, approved 2-21-2017]
B.
A special exception shall be approved for an adult-oriented business
only if the following conditions are met:
(1)
The property shall not be located within 300 feet of a residential
district, as measured from lot line to residential district boundary,
or within 100 feet of any property containing a dwelling, as measured
from lot line to lot line.
(2)
The property shall not be located within 300 feet of the lot or property
line of any religious structure, school, day-care facility, library
or public park, as measured from lot line to lot line.
(3)
The property shall not be located within 1,000 feet of another adult-oriented
business, as measured from lot line to lot line.
(4)
There shall be no display of adult-oriented materials that can be
seen from the exterior of the building.
(5)
The Zoning Hearing Board shall review and approve all exterior signs
for compatibility with adjacent uses.
(6)
No adult-oriented business or activity may change to another type
of adult-oriented business or activity except upon application to
and approval by the Zoning Hearing Board of such change as a special
exception.
(7)
No unlawful sexual activity or conduct shall be performed or permitted.
(8)
No person under 18 years of age will be permitted to enter the business.
The height of a principal building shall be not greater than
35 feet.
A.
Each lot shall have front, side and rear yards of not less than the
depth or width indicated below:
(1)
Front yard depth: 30 feet.
(2)
Two side yards, 10 feet in width, each side of a principal building,
provided that any lot adjoining a residential district shall have
a side yard of a width not less than the minimum width required in
the adjoining residential district. No side yard shall be required
where two or more manufacturing uses abut side to side and a written
agreement between the adjoining property owners is provided. However,
in no case shall party walls be permitted between properties of separate
ownership.
(3)
Rear yard depth: 30 feet.
B.
As a special exception, front, side and rear yards may be modified
by appeal to the Zoning Hearing Board.
A.
The building coverage ratio shall not exceed 60%.
B.
The total coverage ratio shall not exceed 90%.
C.
A minimum of 10% of the lot shall be prepared and maintained as green
space, containing grass or other ground cover and appropriate shrubbery
or similar plantings. This requirement shall be met for all new development
and at the time of any substantial improvement or redevelopment.
Parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article XVI.
