Chapter 17.48
M-1, INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.48.030 Standards for permitted uses.
17.48.060 Site area requirements.
17.48.010 Purpose.
The purpose of the M-1 district is to provide areas suitable for the location of light industrial uses involved in service, manufacturing or assembly activities and having high standards of operation of such character as to permit their location and operation in close proximity to nonindustrial areas of the community. (Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.020 Permitted uses.
The following uses and their accessory uses are permitted in an M-1 district, subject to the limitations imposed in Section 17.48.030:
A. Warehousing;
B. Storage and wholesaling of prepared or packaged merchandise;
C. Dwellings for a caretaker, watchman, or other person regularly employed on the premises;
D. Administrative, educational and other related activities and facilities in conjunction with a permitted use;
E. Ambulance and other emergency service facilities, including police and fire stations;
F. Municipal corporation and public utility buildings, structures and yards, including the storage, repair and maintenance of vehicles and equipment;
G. All types of automobile, motorcycle, truck, and equipment sales, service, repair and rental, including automobile and truck service stations;
H. Boat building, sales and repair;
I. Cold storage plants, including storage and office;
J. Printing, publishing and book binding;
K. Scientific research or experimental development of materials, methods of products, including engineering and laboratory research;
L. Vocational, technical and trade schools, including facilities related to industrial trades;
M. Retail and/or wholesale lumber and building materials sales yard, not including concrete mixing;
N. Light fabrication and repair shops such as blacksmith, cabinet, electric motor, heating, machine, sheet metal, signs, stone monuments, upholstery and welding;
O. Assembly, manufacture, or preparation of articles and merchandise from previously prepared materials, such as canvas, cloth, cork, fiber, tobacco, wire, wood, excluding sawmills and other wood processing plants, and similar materials;
P. Manufacture, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products and meat, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries; excluding the rendering of fats and oils, fish and meat slaughtering, and fermented foods such as vinegar and yeast;
Q. Processing uses such as bottling plants, creameries, blue-printing and photocopying, laundries, carpet cleaning, tire retreading, recapping and rebuilding;
R. Manufacture of electric, electronic, or optical instruments or related devices;
S. Manufacture of products used by the medical and dental professions, including artificial limbs, dentures, hearing aids, surgical instruments and dressings, and similar products;
T. Developer’s project and sales offices, including mobile homes adapted to that purpose, during construction only;
U. Planned unit developments, subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.68;
V. Mini-storage facilities;
W. Mobile food vendors and pods as provided in Chapter 5.44;
X. Other uses not listed in this or any other district, if the planning commission finds them to be similar to those listed above and compatible with other permitted uses and with the intent of the M-1 district. (Ord. 2089 §2, 2022; Ord. 1684 §47, 1993; Ord. 1615 §38, 1989; Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.030 Standards for permitted uses.
All uses within the M-1 district shall be subject to the following conditions and standards:
A. All raw materials, finished products, machinery and equipment, with the exception of automobiles and trucks normally used in the business, shall be stored within an entirely enclosed building or sight-obscuring, nonpierced fence not less than six feet in height;
B. The facility shall be in compliance with all applicable state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations;
C. In any M-1 district directly across a street from any residential (R) district, all outdoor parking, loading or display areas shall be set back at least ten feet from the public right-of-way and this setback area shall be planted with trees appropriate for the neighborhood, ground cover or other landscaping materials that are consistent with the general existing character of the area, or that will establish a landscape theme for other developments to follow. This setback and landscaping requirement shall also apply to M-1 lots fronting on any street designated in the comprehensive plan as a major arterial. (Ord. 1684 §48, 1993; Ord. 1615 §45, 1989; Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.040 Conditional uses.
The following uses and their accessory uses may be permitted in an M-1 district when authorized in accordance with Chapter 17.76:
A. Business offices and commercial uses that are compatible with and closely related in their nature of business to permitted uses in the M-1 district, or that would be established to serve primarily the uses, employees, or customers of the M-1 district;
B. Rail and trucking distribution facilities. (Ord. 1751 §1, 1996; amended during 7/89 Supplement; Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.050 Height regulations.
Maximum height of any building or structure in an M-1 district shall be sixty feet. (Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.060 Site area requirements.
There are no minimum site area requirements in the M-1 district, except as necessary to provide for required parking, loading and yard spaces. (Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.070 Yard requirements.
The following measurements indicate minimum yard requirements in an M-1 district:
A. Front Yard. The front yard shall be a minimum of twenty feet. (Also see Section 17.48.030(C)).
B. Side Yard. The side yard shall be a minimum of ten feet except when the side lot line is abutting a lot in any residential (R) district and then the side yard shall be a minimum of twenty feet and shall be increased by one-half foot for each foot by which the building height exceeds twenty feet.
C. Rear Yard. The rear yard shall be a minimum of ten feet except when the rear lot line is abutting a lot in any residential (R) district and then the rear yard shall be a minimum of twenty feet and shall be increased by one-half foot for each foot by which the building height exceeds twenty feet.
D. Lot Coverage. No requirements. (Ord. 1684 §49, 1993; Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.080 Signs.
Signs within the M-1 district shall be limited to the following:
A. 1. Permitted signs shall contain not more than one hundred square feet of surface area on any one side, or an aggregate of two hundred square feet of surface on all sides which can be utilized for display purposes;
2. Lighted signs shall be indirectly illuminated and nonflashing;
3. Identification signs shall be permitted within any required setback areas provided it does not extend into or overhang any parking area, sidewalk or other public right-of-way;
4. Signs located within vision clearance areas at intersections of streets shall conform to Section 17.60.110.
B. Signs advertising the property “for rent” or “for sale” shall not exceed four square feet of area on any one side and one such sign shall be permitted for each street frontage.
C. Signs in the M-1 district shall be permitted and designed according to provisions of Chapter 15.24. (Ord. 1615 §18, 1989; Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).
17.48.090 Off-street parking.
All uses in an M-1 district shall provide off-street parking and loading facilities as required by Chapter 17.64, except when located within a special district organized to provide common public parking areas. (Ord. 1436 §2(part), 1981).