M-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right68
- Automobile service station
- Banks and savings and loan offices
- Business and office supply establishments
- Central mail facility or branch post office
- Clinics, medical or dental
- Data processing center
- Employment service or agency
- Offices and office buildings, studios and the like, business, professional or administrative
- Restaurant or cafeteria, drive-in or otherwise
- Retail store for food, drugs, hardware, tools, wearing apparel and convenience goods (max 5,000 sq ft)
- Security service office or station
- Trade or business school
- Agriculture, general, and forestry as permitted in A-2 district
- Agricultural or farm implements, manufacture, sale, storage or repair
- Aircraft and aircraft parts
- Automobiles, tractors, trucks, buses, truck trailers, motorcycles and bicycles, repair and assembly, upholstering, rebuilding, body and fender work; transmission repair service, radiator repair and cleaning, tire retreading, recapping, rebuilding and vulcanizing
- Blacksmith shop
- Boats, boating equipment and boat trailers
- Bolts, buttons, nuts, screws and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, tools, dies, machinery and hardware products, sheetmetal products and vitreous enameled metal products
- Boxes, barrels, containers, furniture, cabinets, baskets and wood, metal, fiber or plastic products of similar nature
- Building materials storage and sales (open or enclosed), but not manufacturing or steel fabricating or junk storage
- Carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods
- Cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats, carpets and rugs
- Coal and wood yards, coke storage and sales
- Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors
- Cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, soaps, drugs and pharmaceutical products (compounding only)
- Dog kennels, commercial or noncommercial
- Electrical appliances or electronic instruments and devices, medical and dental equipment, optical or drafting equipment, toys, novelties, games, stamps, musical instruments, watches and clocks manufacture or assembly
- Engine testing (internal combustion engines) but not jet engines or rockets
- Exterminating establishment
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (excluding buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations which require conditional use permit)
- Fertilizer storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building, but not manufacture or processing
- Firewood operation
- Food products, candy, chewing gum, cocoa, coffee, tea and spices, beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, dairy products, cheese and ice cream, oleomargarine, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of animals
- Grain storage, blending and packaging, but not milling except custom milling of small orders
- Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail
- Heating, cooling, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies, equipment and appliances
- Ice manufacture, including dry ice
- Industrial vocational training school, including internal combustion engines and including heavy construction equipment, materials handling equipment or similar equipment
- Ink manufacturing (mixing only)
- Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical elements (blending only)
- Janitorial service establishment
- Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, including combustion engine testing
- Leather goods manufacture, but not including tanning operations
- Lumber yard, planing and millwork
- Machine shop
- Monumental stone works
- Motion picture studio
- Nursery for growing plants, trees and shrubs
- Paper and paperboard (from paper machine only), but not pulpmills
- Plating, electrolytic process, in a completely enclosed building
- Plumbing supplies, manufacture, sale or storage
- Pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products and kilns (fired by electricity or gas only)
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishment, photographic processing, blueprinting, photocopying and similar uses
- Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including paper mache products), paper products, but not manufacture of paper
- Railroad switching yard, primarily for railroad service in district, team tracks and spur tracks
- Rubber and synthetic treating of fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing)
- Sand and gravel processing but not extraction
- Sawmill (including cooperage stock mill) stationery and planing mill
- Sign painting and fabricating
- Spacecraft or spacecraft parts
- Structural iron and steel fabrication
- Tobacco products
- Truck stop or truck terminal, freight
- Warehouses, wholesale houses and distributors, wholesale market
- Water well drilling establishment
- Welding, bracing, or soldering shops
- Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427
Conditional / special use11
- Airports and landing fields, heliports, and accessory uses (with conditional use permit)
- Circus or carnival grounds, temporary for a specified time period (with conditional use permit)
- Commercial renewable energy generation, utility scale, including wind and solar energy projects (with conditional use permit)
- Exposition center or fairgrounds (with conditional use permit)
- Buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations for public utility service (with conditional use permit)
- General advertising sign, limited to 200 sq ft and 25 ft height (with special exception)
- Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire and rescue stations, parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings (with conditional use permit)
- Race track or course, any type (with conditional use permit)
- Radio or television tower more than 150 ft in height (with conditional use permit)
- Rifle or pistol range (with conditional use permit)
- Sports arena or stadium, commercial athletic field or baseball park (with conditional use permit)
Accessory4
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises
- Security service office or station
- Signs as regulated in section 18-284
- Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment or goods normally carried in stock, used or produced in connection with a permitted use
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. along residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary6 ft
Where the side lot line of a business, commercial or industrial use abuts a residential district, a continuous opaque fence, wall, hedge or planting screen of approved design not less than six (6) feet in height shall be provided and maintained along such lot line, but not within fifteen (15) feet of any street line.
- Minimum screening fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for outdoor storage6 ft
All outdoor storage areas shall be screened from view from adjacent public roads and residential districts by a landscaped buffer or opaque fence of not less than six (6) feet in height.
Other
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of landscaping on corner lots3 ft
Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. landscaping
Any part of the front yard not used for parking or accessways, shall be landscaped with appropriate planting or, with pedestrian walks, in accord with an approved landscaping plan.
- Prohibition of hazardous conditions
All uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable or offensive conditions at residential district boundaries by reason of odor, dust, lint, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, wastes, fire or explosion.
- Paving of drives, parking, loading areas
The drives, parking areas, loading areas, and walks shall be paved with hard all-weather surface material meeting applicable county specifications.
- Refuse storage screening
Refuse containers or refuse storage shall be located in a paved area and hidden from general public view, either from within or outside the premises, by means of fences, walls or landscaping planting.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirement
Side yards are required only if adjacent to a residential district.
- Stormwater drainage
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage. Water from parking and loading sheds shall not be permitted to drain onto or across public sidewalks, or onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement.
Signage
- Maximum detached sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet, one (1) for each business or industry on the premises.
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
Detached signs, if there are no projecting signs, limited in area to one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (35) feet, one (1) for each business or industry on the premises.
- Maximum directional sign area8 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Directional signs limited in area to eight (8) square feet, giving directions to motorists regarding the location of parking areas and access drives, shall be permitted as accessory signs and not included in any computation of sign area.
- Maximum marquee sign area10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Marquee signs, if there are no projecting signs, two (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to ten (10) square feet.
- Maximum off-premises directional sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to fifty (50) square feet and subject to approval of location, design and wording by the administrator.
- Maximum projecting sign area60 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs, if there are no marquee or detached signs, one (1) for each business on the premises, with sign area limited to sixty (60) square feet.
From the ordinance
Buildings in an M-1 district may be erected up to fifty (50) feet in height from grade; buildings may cover not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the area of the lot; all development shall be served by public water and public sewer systems where available.