(A) Purpose. The regulations set forth in this section or set forth elsewhere in this chapter, when referred to in this section, are the regulations in the M1 – Light Industrial District.
(B) Use regulations. A building or premises shall be used only for any or a combination of the following purposes.
(1) Permitted uses.
(a) Any use permitted in the B2 – Commercial District and without restriction as to number of employees, other than residential, provided however, that when 90% or more of a block or tract of land in the M1 District is vacant or occupied by structures that are of a nonresidential use, then no new residential units may be permitted within the block or tract;
(b) Bottling works;
(c) Carting, express, hauling, or storage yard;
(d) Contractor’s yard;
(e) Coal, coke, or wood yard;
(f) Assembly and manufacture from prefabricated parts of household appliances, electronic products, or the processing or assembling of parts for production of finished equipment;
(g) Laboratories–experimental, film, or testing;
(h) Printing, publishing, or engraving;
(i) Drive-in theaters;
(j) Service industry such as laundry, cleaning, or dyeing establishment, or similar use;
(k) Sporting and athletic equipment manufacture;
(l) Motor freight terminal or freight house, or bus garages and repair shops;
(m) Wholesale or distributing establishment or warehouse or wholesale market;
(n) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such goods, materials, and products as the following:
1. Bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products–except fish and meat products–sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, and the rendering of fats and oils;
2. Articles made from previously prepared materials such as: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stone, shell, textiles, wax, wire, yarns and the like;
3. Musical instruments, toys, novelties, rubber, or metal stamps, and other small molded rubber products; and
4. Fabrication and repair of electric or neon signs or other commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, and the like.
(o) Any other industrial and manufacturing plants where the process of manufacturing or treatment of materials is such that only a nominal amount of dust, odor, gas, smoke, or noise is emitted and not more than 10% of the lot or tract is used for the open storage of products, materials, or equipment.
(2) Special uses.
(a) Bulk storage of refined petroleum products except propane, butane, and similar hydrocarbon products for distribution, but only after the location and treatment of the premises have been approved by the State Division of Fire Prevention as meeting applicable requirements of laws and regulations relating to inflammable liquids;
(b) Stadia; and
(c) Places of public assembly.
(3) Prohibitive uses. Residential uses other than those developed for watchmen.
(C) Height and area regulations. The height and area regulations set forth in §§ 155.183 and 155.184 shall be observed and, in addition, any building or portion thereof that may be used for dwelling purposes shall comply with the yard and lot area requirements for the buildings specified in the B2 – Commercial District.
(Ord. O-95-2-12, passed 2-9-2012)