The M-1 light industrial district is designed to contain mostly warehousing and distribution types of activity, and permits most compounding, assembly, or treatment of articles or materials with the exception of heavy manufacturing and processing of raw materials. Residential uses are excluded from this district. (Prior code § 8-1.12(a))

A. Within the M-1 district, no building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure hereafter erected, structurally altered, replaced, or enlarged except for one or more of the following uses:

1. Any use permitted in a B-1, B-2, or B-3 district; provided, however, that no building, structure or portion thereof shall be hereafter erected, converted, or moved onto any lot in an M-1 district for dwelling purposes, including hotels and motels, except living quarters used by watchmen or custodians of industrially used property;

2. Animal kennels;

3. Carpet cleaning plants;

4. Cold storage plants;

5. Commercial laundries;

6. Craft, cabinet and furniture manufacturing;

7. Assembly of electrical appliances, radios and phonographs including the manufacture of small parts such as coils, condensers, crystal holders and the like;

8. Farm implement sales and service;

9. General food, fruit and vegetable processing and manufacturing plants;

10. Ice cream and milk producing, manufacturing and storage;

11. Laboratories--experimental, photo or motion picture, film or testing;

12. Light and heavy equipment and product display rooms, storage and service;

13. Machine shop or other metal working shop;

14. The manufacture, compounding or treatment of

articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials; aluminum, bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, tobacco and wood;

15. The manufacture, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical, toiletries, and food products except the rendering or refining of fats and oils;

16. The manufacture, dyeing and printing of cloth fabrics and wearing apparel;

17. The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps;

18. Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products;

19. Milk bottling or central distribution stations;

20. Plumbing shops having more than five employees;

21. Poultry or rabbit slaughter incidental to a retail business on the same premises;

22. Radio transmitting and television stations; provided, that towers are of the self-sustaining type without guys;

23. Replating shop;

24. Retail lumber yard including mill and sash work, except that mill and sash work shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building;

25. Small boat building;

26. Soda water and soft drink bottling and distribution plants;

27. Tire repair operation including recapping and retreading;

28. Vocational and trade schools giving general instruction as prescribed by the State Department of Education;

29. Warehouse, storage and loft buildings;

30. Wearing apparel manufacturing;

31. Wholesale business, storage buildings, nonexplosive goods and warehouses;

32. Apartment houses.

B. The above uses are to be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, or within an area enclosed on all sides except the front of the lot, by a solid fence or wall or cyclone fence at least six feet in height. (Prior code § 8-1.12(b))

No building or structure nor the enlargement of any building or structure shall be erected or maintained to exceed four stories or forty-eight feet in height; provided, however, that the height of such building or structure shall not exceed one and one-half times the width of the widest street which it fronts. (Prior code § 8-1.12(c))

Every lot within an M-1 district shall have a minimum lot area of not less than seven thousand five hundred square feet, having an average lot width of sixty-five feet. (Prior code § 8-1.12(d))

A. Front Yard.

1. Where all the frontage between intersecting streets is located within business districts or industrial districts, no front yard shall be required.

2. Where the frontage is located abutting the residential district, there shall be a front yard of not less than ten feet from any setback line for street widening purposes; and if no such line exists, then from the main street or front boundary.

B. Side Yard.

1. Where the side of a lot in an M-1 district abuts upon the side or rear of a lot in an agricultural, farming, hotel, apartment, duplex or any type of residential district, there shall be a side yard of not less than ten feet.

2. In all other cases a side yard for light industrial building shall not be required.

C. Rear Yard.

1. In the case where the rear lot in an M-1 district abuts upon the side or rear of a lot in any residential, agricultural, farming, hotel, apartment or duplex district, there shall be a rear yard of not less than ten feet.

2. In all other cases a rear yard for M-1 building shall not be required.

3. No accessory building or buildings shall be allowed in the required rear yard of any lot occupied by any building containing light industrial business use except for off-street parking purposes. (Prior code § 8-1.12(e))