§ 32. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHT MANUFACTURING OR "M-1" ZONE.

A.

Purpose.

The M-1 zone is intended to provide appropriate locations for certain types of business and manufacturing uses that are quiet and well designed to be compatible with less intensive zoning, including appropriate buffering and/or landscaping to increase compatibility.

B.

General Requirements.

1.

Industrial sites and/or uses shall be enclosed by a building or wall to provide effective site screening from adjoining properties, uses or public rights of way by the use of berms and/or landscape plantings. A solid masonry, concrete or earthen product wall not less than six feet in height, or landscaped berms approved by the Director, shall be required along and adjacent to any side or rear property line abutting any rural or residential zone, or any alley abutting such a zone. Access gates shall be constructed of view-obscuring materials to provide effective site screening. The Director may approve alternative screening methods that meet the intent of the above.

2.

When adjacent to a rural or residential zone, automobile and truck parking shall be screened from view by a solid masonry wall, earthen berm or landscaping, or combination thereof.

3.

All applicable provision of Sections 35, 36, 37, 38 and 42 shall apply to this zone.

C.

Uses Permitted.

1.

Any use permitted in the Commercial-Manufacturing/Open Lot Storage zone when all open operations and storage are screened as defined in Section 32.B above.

2.

Art needlework, hand weaving and tapestries.

3.

Book binding and tooling.

4.

Compounding of cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.

5.

Jewelry manufacture from precious metals and minerals.

6.

Laboratories, research, experimental and testing.

7.

Manufacture and assembly of clay, leather, metal and glass products of handicraft nature.

8.

Manufacture and assembly of medical, dental and drafting instruments.

9.

Manufacture and assembly of optical goods and equipment, watches, clocks and other similar precision instruments.

10.

Manufacture and assembly of electrical or electronic apparatus, musical instruments, games and toys.

11.

Motion picture producing.

12.

Offices.

13.

Warehousing, storage and wholesale distribution facilities.

14.

Any other office, laboratory, manufacturing and assembling uses similar to those uses listed above which do not create any danger to the public health, safety and general welfare to the surrounding areas and which do not create any offensive noise, vibration, smoke dust, odor, heat or glare and which create little truck traffic.

15.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above uses.

16.

Wireless communication towers and facilities with a maximum antenna height of one hundred and twenty (120) feet (see Section 37.R).

D.

Uses Allowed After Acquiring a Special Use Permit.

1.

All uses permitted in any residential zone without a Special Use Permit, when associated with any uses permitted above.

2.

Wireless communication towers and facilities with an antenna height of one hundred and twenty-one (121) feet to two hundred fifty (250) feet (See Section 37.R).