(A) Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide space for industries that create a substantial nuisance but which do not create noxious nuisances and which are not a hazard to surrounding areas. They normally require heavy trucking in connection with their operations. Such industries should be located adjacent to freeways and highways. Areas set aside for their use should offer a wide selection of sites including some with access to rail transportation. An important consideration is the protection of surrounding residential, commercial and light industrial uses from possible objectionable influences created by this type of industry.
(B) Permitted principal uses. Only those uses providing office or industrial services; manufacturing, processing, or assembly of materials or substances into new products; engaged in wholesale trade; or warehousing that are listed below shall be permitted, subject to compliance with all of the provisions of this district:
(1) Permitted uses in the “M-1” Planned Industrial District;
(2) Dairy products, except dry, condensed and evaporated products;
(3) Canned, frozen and preserved fruits, vegetables and food specialties;
(4) Prepared flour mixes and dough;
(5) Beverages;
(6) Bakery products;
(7) Candy and other confectionery products;
(8) Cigarettes, cigars and chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff;
(9) Millwork, veneer, plywood and structural wood members;
(10) Furniture and fixtures;
(11) Paperboard containers and boxes, and converted paper and paperboard products;
(12) Drugs;
(13) Perfumes, cosmetics and other toilet preparations;
(14) Miscellaneous plastics products;
(15) Boot and shoe cut stock and findings;
(16) Leather goods not elsewhere classified;
(17) Flat glass;
(18) Structural clay products;
(19) Pottery and related products;
(20) Cut stone and stone products;
(21) Cutlery, hand tools and general hardware;
(22) Coating, engraving and allied services;
(23) Small arms; ordnance and accessories not elsewhere classified; and guided missiles and space vehicles and parts;
(24) Miscellaneous transportation equipment;
(25) Machinery (except electrical) uses that are not permitted in the “M-1” Planned Industrial District;
(26) Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment and supplies;
(27) Motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment;
(28) Boat building and repairing;
(29) Motorcycles, bicycles and parts;
(30) Miscellaneous manufacturing industries;
(31) Trucking, local and long distance;
(32) Terminals and terminal maintenance facilities for motor freight transportation; and
(33) Off-premise signs having an area of not more than 300 square feet and height of not more than 25 feet.
(C) Accessory uses. Uses clearly subordinate and customarily incidental to the principal use may be permitted subject to the standards set forth in division (E) below.
(D) Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed by the Board of Adjustment subject to § 160.63, provided such use complies with the requirements of this and all other city codes and is in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the city. Many of the uses listed herein will, by the nature of their operation, emit odors, gases, dust, noise, smoke, heat, glare or vibrations in sufficient quantities to constitute a hazard to public health, safety or general welfare:
(1) Restaurants and other retail uses;
(2) Airports and heliports, including hangars, terminal buildings, and other auxiliary facilities;
(3) Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation;
(4) Correctional facilities and halfway homes for delinquents or offenders, or persons with present drug or alcohol dependencies;
(5) Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas of any kind;
(6) Animal shelters and kennels;
(7) Small wind energy conversion system (SWECS), subject to § 160.48;
(8) Off-premise signs having an area of more than 300 square feet but not more than 675 square feet, and a height of not more than 35 feet, as limited by the Sign Ordinance to areas with large-scale development subject to the elimination of existing legally nonconforming off-premise signs in accordance with the Sign Code;
(9) Communication towers with a height of more than 150 feet; towers for micro-wave relay, radio and television transmission, or other purposes; and towers located less than 200 feet from the boundary of any property zoned for residential use or designated for such use by the Comprehensive Plan, subject to § 160.47;
(10) Meat products;
(11) Grain mill products, and grain storage;
(12) Fats and oils;
(13) Miscellaneous food preparation and kindred products;
(14) Textile mill products, including impregnated fabrics and oil-cloth;
(15) Wood containers, and including pallets irrespective of materials;
(16) Wood buildings and mobile homes;
(17) Miscellaneous wood products;
(18) Pulp, paper and paper-board mills;
(19) Converted paper and paperboard products, except containers and boxes;
(20) Building paper and building board mills;
(21) Industrial inorganic chemicals; industrial organic chemicals; agricultural chemicals; and miscellaneous chemical products;
(22) Plastics materials and synthetic resins, synthetic rubber and synthetic and other man-made fibers, except glass;
(23) Soap and other detergents; specialty cleaning, polishing and sanitation preparations; and surface active agents, finishing agents, sulfonated oils and assistants;
(24) Paints, varnishes, lacquers, enamels and allied products;
(25) Petroleum refining and related industries;
(26) Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products, except miscellaneous plastics products;
(27) Leather tanning and finishing;
(28) Cement, hydraulic;
(29) Concrete, gypsum and plaster products;
(30) Abrasive, asbestos and miscellaneous nonmetallic mineral products;
(31) Primary metal industries;
(32) Metal cans and shipping containers; heating equipment; fabricated structural metal products; screw machine products, and bolts, nuts screws et al. ; metal forgings and stampings; and miscellaneous fabricated metal products;
(33) Ordnance (ammunition);
(34) Aircraft and parts;
(35) Ship building and repairing;
(36) Railroad equipment;
(37) Recycling, processing, storage, handling, depositing, incineration, landfill and other operations dealing or associated with discarded material, scrap, waste, refuse, garbage, trash or dead or diseased organisms; and
(38) All other uses of a similar character as may be determined by the Board of Adjustment.
(E) Performance standards.
(1) All outdoor storage of products or materials shall be effectively screened from adjacent streets and properties.
(2) All refuse collection areas shall be fully enclosed by a six-foot high opaque wood fence or masonry wall.
(3) If a lot adjoins a residential zoning district, a buffer yard shall be provided along said district boundary in accordance with the requirements of § 160.27.
(4) A minimum of 15% of the lot in addition to required landscape setbacks and buffer yards shall be maintained as open space landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs and other plant material in accordance with § 160.28.
(F) Bulk requirements. The following minimum requirements shall be observed:
(1) Minimum lot area: 40,000 square feet;
(2) Minimum lot width: 150 feet;
(3) Minimum front yard: 50 feet; unless adjacent to a frontage road sitting directly between the property line and a road designated as “arterial” or “highway” in which case the minimum front yard setback shall be reduced to 20 feet in all cases;
(4) Minimum side yards: adjacent to a street - 50 feet, unless adjacent to a frontage road sitting directly between the property line and a road designated as “arterial” or “highway” in which case the minimum street-side yard setback shall be reduced to 20 feet in all cases; adjacent to a residential district - ten feet; otherwise none required;
(5) Minimum rear yard: adjacent to residentially zoned property - 30 feet; otherwise none required;
(6) Maximum height: 35 feet, provided that no building for any use shall exceed a bulk plane having a 14-degree altitude calculated from a horizontal plane extending through a line located 18 feet above the average elevation of the north lot line, if an existing building with a passive solar design that includes thermal storage, or an existing solar photovoltaic array that is capable of producing a minimum of 3-kW DC in direct sun, lies to the north; said existing design or device shall be previously documented for this limitation to be applicable; and
(7) Maximum floor area ratio: (F.A.R.): 0.50.
(Am. Ord. 2023-02, passed 2-7-2023)