(A) Purpose. The purpose of the M-1 District 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, and shall 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:
(1) Auto sales, services, storage, and rentals;
(2) Billboard manufacturing;
(3) Building supply outlets;
(4) Cabinet shops;
(5) Car washes;
(6) Cleaning and laundry agencies;
(7) Contractor storage yards;
(8) Dairy products processing;
(9) Food processing plants;
(10) Furniture refinishing;
(11) Grain storage;
(12) Commercial laundry plants;
(13) Retail lumber yards;
(14) Machine shops;
(15) Nurseries for flowers and plants;
(16) Parking lots and garage facilities;
(17) Public utility yards;
(18) Railroad yards or shops;
(19) Sanitary landfills;
(20) Shops for building contractors;
(21) Sign shops;
(22) Terminal trucking and yard trucking;
(23) Tire shops, including recapping;
(24) Trailer, mobile home, and farm equipment sales yards;
(25) Warehousing and wholesaling;
(26) Home occupations;
(27) Multi-family dwellings;
(28) Rooming or boarding houses;
(29) Single-family dwellings; and
(30) Two-family dwellings.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses are conditional uses permitted in the M-1 District:
(1) Those uses permitted in C-1 and C-2 Districts;
(2) Billboard manufacturers;
(3) Chemical storage and manufacturing;
(4) Drive-in theaters;
(5) Feedlots and stockyards;
(6) Food stores and delicatessens;
(7) Fuel yards;
(8) Hospitals;
(9) Ice manufacturing and cold storage plants;
(10) Junkyards;
(11) Machine shops;
(12) Meat packing plants;
(13) Monument works and stone;
(14) Planned unit developments;
(15) Prescription pharmacies;
(16) Printing and blueprinting;
(17) Rendering plants;
(18) Roadside stands;
(19) Service stations;
(20) Truck and tractor repair;
(21) Wood processing plants, except pulp mills, chipping plants, and creosote plants; and
(22) Wrecking yards.
(D) Yards. There are no yard requirements in the M-1 District.
(E) Maximum height. Buildings shall not exceed four stories in height.
(Prior Code, § 13-6-2-9) (Ord. 468, passed 4-15-1980; Ord. 2021-01, passed 2-10-2021)