M-1 - LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
1. Intent and purpose.
a. The Light Industrial Classification is intended to provide land for primarily the manufacture of small articles and products which
do not involve the use of any materials, processes, or machinery or production of a product likely to be detrimental to nearby or
adjacent residential or business property.
b. Contained in this section are the allowed land uses, building and lot standards (including minimum setbacks) and other general
requirements specified for this zoning classification.
2. Permitted uses.
a. Uses primarily engaged in research activities, including research laboratories, developmental laboratories, and compatible light
manufacturing such as, but not limited to, the following:
Biochemical
Chemical
Electronics
Film and photography
Medical and dental
Metallurgy
Pharmaceutical
X-ray
b. Uses primarily engaged in manufacture, research assembly, testing and repair of components, devices, equipment and
systems, and parts and components, involving the following items:
Coils, tubes, semiconductors
Communication, navigation, guidance, and control equipment
Data processing equipment, including computer software
Glass edging and silvering equipment
Graphics and art equipment
Metering equipment
Radio and television equipment
Photographic equipment
Radar, infrared, and ultraviolet equipment
Optical devices and equipment
Filing and labeling machinery
c. Uses primarily engaged in manufacturing, processing, or assembly of the following or similar products:
Apparel and finish products from textile products
Furniture and fixture products not commonly allowed in IC classification
Plastic and rubber products
Stone, clay, and glass products
Professional, scientific, controlling, photo-graphic, and optical products or equipment
d. Uses engaged in service industries or those industries providing service to, as opposed to the manufacture of, a specific
product, such as the repair and maintenance of appliances or component parts, tooling, printers, testing shops, small machine
shops, and shops engaged in the repair, maintenance and servicing of such items.
e. Uses involving industries engaged in the distribution, storage or warehousing of products relating to the permitted uses in
Subsection 2.a. through 2.c. above.
f. Uses engaged in blueprinting, photostatting, photoengraving, printing, publishing, and bookbinding.
g. Uses primarily engaged in administrative and professional offices, but limited to: (i) offices which are associated with any
permitted business use, or (ii) offices which do not generate large volumes of traffic nor are primarily dependent upon business
customers visiting the office and (iii) banks and financial institutions, medical and dental offices, employment agencies, and real
estate agencies.
h. Miscellaneous Uses:
Airport, general aviation
Auto repair, except paint and body
Blacksmith shop
Carpet and upholstery cleaning
Computer maintenance and repair
Construction or contractor yard
Dairy products-manufacturing or processing
Equipment rental and leasing
Health or athletic club facilities
Limerock, phosphate, clay processing
Mattress renovation
Meat products, prepared
Metal buffing, plating, polishing, sandblasting
Mini-warehouse
Mortuary
Parking of commercial vehicles
Pest control services
Prepackaged software services
Process bottled water
Radio/TV broadcasting facilities
Repair garage
School-vocational
Sign construction
Agricultural uses as an interim use on all parcels having a green belt exemption
i. Accessory uses and structures when related and incidental to a permitted use such as, but not limited to, food preparation,
food service, eating facilities, and auditorium to serve employees.
j. Restaurants; if drawing traffic from outside the surrounding industrial area are subject to a Special Use Permit.
k. Commercial uses which are intended to service the needs of the employees and businesses within the surrounding industrial
area. The following uses shall be allowed:
Retail commercial sales and services oriented to the needs of people employed within the surrounding industrial area
Retail sales of products manufactured on site shall be allowed, provided the sales area shall not exceed 1,500 square feet
Personal service businesses, including child care centers
Financial service businesses
Service stations
Hotels and motels
l. Public utilities substations and facilities.
m. Satellite dish areas and accessory facilities.
n. Heliports.
o. Recreation facilities such as but not limited to: archery range; golf course; golf driving range, horse racetrack. This does not
include shooting ranges, skeet shooting or trapshooting facilities.
p. Accessory uses. Refer to 4.e. for location requirements.
q. Special Uses: The following uses may be allowed upon review of a Special Use Permit Application by the Zoning Commission
and approval by the Board of County Commissioners:
Adult entertainment
Airport, private
Electric substation
Farm products, packing, crating and shipping
Freight terminal
Gas meter facility, except where such permits are pre-empted by state or federal regulations
Gas supply lines, high pressure, except where such permits are pre-empted by state or federal regulations
Garbage transfer station
Hospital
Painting and varnishing
Sewage treatment plants with an in flow exceeding 5,000 gallons per day
Sports arena
Sprayfields or other type of effluent disposal area when application rate exceeds 5,000 gallons per day, if allowed by law
Utility company service yards
Water supply, treatment and storage facilities which serve 15 or more service connections, or commercial or industrial buildings
which are required by the building code to have fire sprinkler systems
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