M-1
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 40,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.92 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 150 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right7
- All uses permitted by right within the B-1 zoning district
- Light manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing and warehousing
- Agriculture and forestry as permitted in the R-1 zoning district
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service
- Greenhouse or nursery, commercial, wholesale or retail
- Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouse or distribution center
- Accessory buildings and uses
Conditional / special use4
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises
- Private club, lodge, meeting hall, labor union or fraternal organization or sorority
- Public utility buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and major transmission lines
- Radio, television or other communications tower more than 125 feet in height
Accessory4
- Any accessory use permitted in the R-1 zoning district
- Coin-operated vending machines for food, tobacco, ice, soft drinks, and sundries inside a building
- Retail and service facilities inside a principal building for the use of occupants
- Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment, or goods normally carried in stock
Prohibited1
- Residential dwellings (except for watchmen/caretakers via special use permit)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Fencing required
All areas requiring fencing shall have fencing properly erected and maintained.
Other
- Enclosed buildings
All uses, excluding storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building of permanent and durable construction.
- Front lot landscaping
Any part of the front lot not used for parking or accessways shall be appropriately landscaped with large trees, bushes, shrubs, and grass.
- Minimum buffer from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
No structure shall be located closer than 100 feet to the boundary of a residential district.
- Open storage screening
Products or equipment used or manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened from the street or from a residential district by landscaping, fences or walls.
- Stormwater drainage
Provision shall be made for proper stormwater drainage from parking and loading areas.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot size 40,000 sq ft, width 150 ft, depth 150 ft, frontage 50 ft, lot coverage 30%, height 35 ft.