A. Purpose: The purpose of the Light Manufacturing District (M-1) is to encourage development of manufacturing and wholesale business establishments which are clean, quiet, and free of hazardous or objectionable elements, such as noise, odor, dust, smoke or glare; operate entirely within an enclosed structure and generate little industrial traffic. Research activities are encouraged. This district is further designed to act as a transitional use between any manufacturing uses and other less intense business and residential uses.
B. Permitted Uses: The following uses are permitted in the M-1 zone:
Auto sales, service, storage and rental.
Billboard manufacture.
Building supply outlet.
Cabinet shop.
Car wash.
Cleaning and laundry agency.
Contractor storage yard.
Dairy products processing.
Food processing plant.
Furniture refinishing.
Grain storage.
Laundry, commercial plant.
Lumberyard, retail.
Machine shop.
Nursery for flowers and plants.
Parking lot, garage facility.
Public utility yard.
Railroad yards or shops.
Sanitary landfill.
Shop for building contractor.
Sign shop.
Terminal trucking yard.
Tire shop, including recapping.
Trailer, mobile home, farm equipment sales yard.
Warehousing and wholesaling.
C. Conditional Uses: The following uses are conditional uses permitted in the M-1 district:
Billboard manufacturer.
Chemical storage and manufacturing.
Drive-in theater.
Feedlots, stockyards.
Food store, delicatessen.
Fuel yard.
Hospital.
Ice manufacture, cold storage plant.
Junkyard.
Machine shop.
Meat packing plant.
Monument works, stone.
Planned unit development.
Prescription pharmacy.
Printing and blueprinting.
Rendering plant.
Roadside stand.
Service station.
Truck and tractor repair.
Wood processing plant, except pulp mill, chipping plant, creosote plant.
Wrecking yard.
D. Yard Requirements: There are no yard requirements or maximum height limitations in the M-1 district. (Ord. 15, 7-11-1977)