The M-1A District is intended and designed to provide areas of the City suitable for activities and uses of a medium industrial nature.
1. Principal Permitted Uses. Only the use of structures or land listed in this section shall be permitted in the M-1A District.
A. Any use permitted in M-1 Districts.
B. Adult entertainment businesses.
C. Bag, carpet and rug cleaning.
D. Bakeries.
E. Welding or other metal working shops.
F. Carting, express, hauling or storage yards; contractors equipment and materials storage yards.
G. Creamery, bottling works, ice cream manufacturing (wholesale), ice manufacturing and cold storage plant.
H. Distribution centers
I. Enameling, lacquering or japanning.
J. Laboratories – research, experimental and testing.
K. Lumber yards and building material sales yards.
L. Machine shops.
M. Manufacture of musical instruments and novelties.
N. Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, instruments and devices.
O. Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
P. Manufacture and repair of electric signs, advertising structures, sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment.
Q. Milk distribution station.
R. Manufacture of wood products not involving chemical treatment.
S. Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food products except; fish and meat products, cereals, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, stock feed, flour, and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
T. Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as bone, cloth, cork, fiber, leather, paper, plastics, metals or stones, tobacco, wax, yarns, and wood.
U. Printing plant.
V. Storage and sale of livestock feed, providing dust is effectively controlled.
W. Flammable liquids storage not to exceed 40,000 gallons, provided it is located at least 200 feet from any R District.
X. Wholesale storage and warehouse establishments.
Y. Monument sales yards.
2. Permitted Accessory Uses. Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use, including accessory uses permitted in the M-1 District.
3. Required Conditions. No use shall be permitted to be established or maintained which by reason of its nature or manner of operation is or may become hazardous, noxious, or offensive owing to the emission of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibrations, refuse matter or water-carried waste.
4. Bulk Regulations. The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to the modifications contained in Section 165.19 of these zoning regulations:
Lot Area | no minimum |
Lot Width | no minimum |
Minimum Front Yard | 40 feet |
Minimum Rear Yard | 35 feet |
Minimum Side Yard | No minimum, except when adjoining an R District or C-1 District or street right-of-way, the minimum side yard setback shall be 40 feet. |
Maximum Height | 40 feet – principal building 1 story or 14 feet accessory building |
5. Off-Street Parking and Loading. Spaces for off-street parking and loading shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 168 of these zoning regulations.
6. Site Plan Requirements. For site plan requirements, see Chapter 160 of this Code of Ordinances.
7. Minimum Open Space. The total land area devoted to open space and landscaping shall not be less than 15 percent of the gross land area included in the building lot. Such open space shall be maintained as grassed and landscaped area and shall not include access drives, parking areas, structures or buildings; except ornamental structures included as part of the landscaping theme.
8. Adult Entertainment Businesses, as Permitted in M-1A and M-2 Districts. It is the purpose of this section to regulate adult entertainment businesses to limit their inherent adverse impact in the community while at the same time permitting lawful businesses to conduct operations in the community. The Council finds as evidenced in other cities that the number of adult entertainment businesses is increasing and that, because of their very nature, are recognized as having serious, objectionable operational characteristics, which are magnified when located in close proximity to dwellings, churches, schools, and parks. Special regulation of adult entertainment businesses is necessary to ensure that these adverse effects will not contribute to the blighting or downgrading of the surrounding neighborhood. The Council further finds that these regulations are necessary to protect the youth of this community from the objectionable operational characteristics of such businesses by restricting their location. The Council further finds that these regulations are necessary to protect the health, safety and general welfare of all residents of the community.
A. Limitations. Adult entertainment businesses are subject to the following restrictions, and no person shall cause or permit the establishment of any adult entertainment business contrary to said restrictions:
(1) No adult entertainment business shall be open for business between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m.
(2) An adult entertainment business shall not be allowed within 500 feet of another existing adult entertainment business.
(3) An adult entertainment business shall not be located within 500 feet of any residentially zoned district.
(4) An adult entertainment business shall not be located within 1,000 feet of a preexisting school, public park, or church.
Measurements shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the main entrance of such adult entertainment business to the point on the property line of such other business, school, church, public park or areas zoned for residential use which is closest to the said main entrance of such adult entertainment business.
B. Prohibited Activities of Businesses.
(1) No adult entertainment business shall employ any person under 18 years of age.
(2) No adult entertainment business shall furnish any merchandise or services to any person who is under 18 years of age.
(3) No adult entertainment business shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation of any model or any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening from any public way or from any property not licensed as an adult use. No operator of an adult entertainment business or any officer, associate, member, representative, agent, owner, or employee of such business shall engage in any activity or conduct or permit any other person to engage in any activity of conduct in or about the premises which is prohibited by this section or any laws of the State.
(4) No part of the interior of the adult entertainment business shall be visible from any pedestrian sidewalk, walkway, street, or other public or semipublic area.
(5) An adult entertainment business shall post a sign at the entrance of the premises which shall state the nature of the business and shall state that no one under the age of 18 years is allowed on the premises. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the owner from establishing an older age limitation for coming on the premises.
(6) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall intentionally expose those parts of his or her body hereinafter listed to another in any public place, or in any place where such exposure is seen by another person or persons located in any public place.
a. A woman’s nipple, the areola thereof, or any portion of the female breast at or below the nipple thereof, except as necessary in the breast feeding of a baby.
b. The pubic hair, pubes, perineum, or anus of a male or female, the penis or scrotum of a male, or the vagina of a female, excepting such body parts of prepubescent infants of either sex.
C. Establishment of Business Described. Establishment of adult entertainment business shall include the opening of such business as a new business, the relocation of such business, or the conversion of an existing business location to any of the uses described in Section 165.02(3) of these zoning regulations.
D. Special Use Permit. The adult entertainment businesses may be permitted subject to approval by the Council after public hearing. In its determination upon the particular use at the location requested, the Council shall consider all of the following provisions:
(1) The proposed location, design, construction, and operation of the particular use adequately safeguards the health, safety, and general welfare of persons residing or working in adjoining or surrounding property.
(2) Such use shall not impair an adequate supply of light and air to surrounding property.
(3) Such use shall not unduly increase congestion in the streets or public danger of fire and safety.
(4) Such use shall not diminish or impair established property values in adjoining or surrounding property.
(5) Such use shall be in accord with the intent, purpose, and spirit of these zoning regulations and the Comprehensive Plan of the City.
E. Application Requirements. Applications for an adult entertainment business under the terms of this section shall be accompanied by evidence concerning the feasibility of the proposed request and its effect on surrounding property and shall include a site plan defining the areas to be developed for buildings and structures, the areas to be developed for parking, the locations and driveways and the points of ingress and egress, the location and height of walls, the location and type of landscaping, the location, size and number of signs and the manner of providing water supply and sewage treatment facilities.