(A) Use by right. The principal uses permitted in the M-1 Light Manufacturing District are designed by Use Units. The Use Units are groupings of individual uses and are fully described, including their respective off-street parking, loading, and screening requirements and other use conditions in §§ 153.141 to 153.174. The use units permitted in the M-1 Light Manufacturing District are set forth below.
(1) Use Unit 1 - areawide uses by right.
(2) Use Unit 3 - public protection and utility facilities.
(3) Use Unit 10 - off-street parking areas.
(4) Use Unit 11 - offices and studios.
(5) Use Unit 15 - other trades and services (sexually oriented uses only by special exception).
(6) Use Unit 16 - gasoline service stations.
(7) Use Unit 17 - automotive and allied activities.
(8) Use Unit 21 - business signs and outdoor advertising.
(9) Use Unit 22 - research and development.
(10) Use Unit 23 - warehousing and wholesaling.
(11) Use Unit 25 - light manufacturing.
(12) Other uses. Other uses or enterprises similar to the above, which in the judgment of the Area Plan Commission Board or Board of Zoning Appeals are similar to and not more objectionable to the general welfare, than the uses listed. Other uses so determined shall be regarded as listed uses. In no instance, however, shall the Area Plan Commission Board or Board of Zoning Appeals determine nor the regulations be so interpreted, that a use shall be permitted in a district where such use is specifically listed as first permissible in a less restricted district or where such use is permitted by special exception in this district.
(13) Use unit 29 - mobile office trailer, so long as property does not abut a residential district.
(B) Use by special exception. Special exception uses may be permitted by the Board of Zoning Appeals following a public hearing, as indicated below, when such are deemed essential or desirable to the public convenience or welfare and are in harmony with the various elements or objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
(1) Use Unit 2 - areawide special exception uses.
(2) Use Unit 4 - community services [excluding protective shelters, treatment centers, and transitional living centers, but including children’s nursery/day care center for more than four unrelated children (excluding those who live in the home)].
(3) Use Unit 12 - entertainment and eating establishments.
(4) Use Unit 13 - convenience goods and services.
(5) Use Unit 14 - shopping goods and services.
(6) Use Unit 15 - sexually oriented businesses.
(7) Use Unit 18 - drive-in restaurants.
(8) Use Unit 19 - hotel, motel and recreation facilities.
(9) Use Unit 20 - commercial recreation: intensive.
(10) Use unit 29 - mobile office trailer when property abuts a residential district.
(C) Limitations on uses by right and special exception.
(1) All activities including sales, display, preparations and storage shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building except:
(a) Accessory parking lots and service stations;
(b) Retail stores in Use Units 14 and 15 involving the sale or rental of building materials, lawn and garden equipment, lumber, shrubs, trees and flowers;
(c) Uses in Use Unit 17 (automobile and allied products); and
(d) Uses that may be permitted by the Board of Zoning Appeals in granting a special exception.
(2) All products shall be sold as retail on the premises.
(3) All on-site lighting shall be directed toward the structures on-site and away from any neighboring residential districts.
(4) Sexually oriented business.
(a) No person shall cause or permit the establishment of any sexually oriented businesses as defined in § 153.270 unless that business is specifically approved as a special exception by the Board of Zoning Appeals. This business may be established only within those conditions set by the Board of Zoning Appeals. (See § 153.246(C)(4)).
(b) The terminology “establishment of a sexually oriented business” shall be defined to include within its meaning the opening of such business as a new business, the relocation of such business, the enlargement of such business in either scope or area, and/or the conversion of an existing business location to any of the sexually oriented uses as defined in § 153.270.
(D) Accessory uses permitted. Those accessory uses which are customarily incidental to a permitted principal use are also permitted in the M-2 Districts.
(E) Accessory use conditions.
(1) Accessory buildings shall meet the minimum building setback lines of the applicable district.
(2) An accessory building which is erected as an integral part of the principal building shall be structurally a part thereof. The accessory building shall have a common wall therewith, and shall comply with the requirements applicable to the principal building.
(3) Accessory storage of materials, equipment, or products within 200 feet of an abutting R District shall be screened by the erection of a screening wall or fence along the lot line or lines in common with the abutting R District.
(4) Signs in the manufacturing districts, whether accessory or principal uses, are subject to the use conditions set forth in Use Unit 21.
(Ord. 12-16, passed 8-8-12; Am. Ord. 13-9, passed 5-16-13)