§ 122.0. M-1 (Manufacturing: Light) District
A.
Purpose
The M-1 District is established to permit a mix of manufacturing, warehousing and business uses with provisions for limited retail sales.
B.
Uses Permitted as a Matter of Right
1.
Ambulance services.
2.
Ambulatory health care facilities.
3.
Athletic facilities, commercial.
4.
Banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, credit unions, brokers and similar financial institutions.
5.
Biodiesel fuel manufacturing from vegetable-based oils.
6.
Biomedical laboratories.
7.
Blueprinting, printing, duplicating or engraving services.
8.
Breweries that manufacture 22,500 barrels or less of fermented malt beverages per year.
9.
Bus terminals.
10.
Carpet and floor covering stores.
11.
Car wash facilities.
12.
Carnivals and fairs sponsored by and operated on a nonprofit basis for the benefit of charitable, social, civic or educational organizations, subject to the requirements of Section 128.0.D.
13.
Carpet and rug cleaning.
14.
Catering establishments and banquet facilities.
15.
Child day care centers and nursery schools.
16.
Concert halls.
17.
Conservation areas, including wildlife and forest preserves, environmental management areas, reforestation areas, and similar uses.
18.
Contractor's office and outdoor or indoor storage facility, including carpentry, cleaning, construction, electrical, excavation, exterminating, heating/air conditioning, home improvement, landscaping, masonry, painting, paving, plumbing, roofing, septic system, snow removal, well drilling, and other contractors.
19.
Data processing and telecommunication centers.
20.
Day treatment or care facilities.
21.
Farming, provided that on a residential lot or parcel of less than 40,000 square feet no livestock shall be permitted. However, residential chicken keeping is allowed as noted in Section 128.0.
22.
Flex-space.
23.
Funeral homes and mortuaries.
24.
Furniture, appliance and business machine repair, furniture upholstering, and similar services.
25.
Furniture stores.
26.
Government structures, facilities and uses, including public schools and colleges.
27.
Hotels, motels, conference centers and country inns.
28.
Kennels.
29.
Laundry or dry cleaning establishments or plants.
30.
Light Industrial Uses.
31.
Material recovery facilities—source separated.
32.
Mobile home and modular home sales and rentals, but not including occupancy.
33.
Motor vehicle, construction equipment and farm equipment maintenance, repair and painting facilities, including full body repair and incidental sale of parts.
34.
Motor vehicle, construction equipment and farm equipment sales and rentals.
35.
Motor vehicle inspections station.
36.
Motor vehicle towing and storage facility.
37.
Mulch manufacture.
38.
Nonprofit clubs, lodges, community halls.
39.
Offices, professional and business.
40.
Pawn Shops.
41.
Pet grooming establishments and daycare, completely enclosed.
42.
Photographic processing plants.
43.
Pizza delivery services and other services for off-site delivery of prepared food.
44.
Printing, lithography, bookbinding or publishing.
45.
Public utility uses, limited to the following:
a.
Utility substations, provided that all uses are set back at least 50 feet from lot lines.
b.
Above ground pipelines.
c.
Pumping stations and compression stations.
d.
Telecommunication equipment facilities.
e.
Commercial communications antennas.
f.
Commercial communication towers, subject to the requirements of Section 128.0.E.2. and 128.0.E.3.
46.
Recreation facilities, commercial
47.
Recycling collection facilities.
48.
Religious facilities, structures and land used primarily for religious activities.
49.
Research and development establishments.
50.
Restaurants, carryout.
51.
Restaurants, standard, and beverage establishments, including those serving beer, wine and liquor for consumption on premises only.
52.
Retail centers. Retail centers to serve the employees and users of projects within this zoning district are permitted within projects of at least 200 acres when such centers conform to the requirements set forth below.
a.
Purpose: The purpose of such retail centers is to provide employees and users of development in this zoning district with conveniently located commercial, retail and personal services; to reduce the need for vehicle trips off and onto the site to obtain such services; to provide employees and users with the useable open space and amenities associated with such services (e.g., outdoor eating areas); and to make more efficient use of the site by clustering together related retail, commercial and service activities in retail centers which typically would not exceed 40,000 square feet of gross floor area.
b.
Uses permitted by right in such retail centers include any combination of the retail, commercial or service uses permitted by right in this district plus the following uses:
(1)
Newsstand.
(2)
Convenience store.
(3)
Personal service establishments.
(4)
Specialty stores.
(5)
Telegraph offices, express mail, and messenger services.
(6)
Travel bureaus.
(7)
Drug and cosmetic stores.
c.
Minimum requirements and conditions: Retail centers incorporating the uses cited in paragraph b. above shall be permitted within this zoning district when they meet the following conditions:
(1)
Minimum project size shall be 200 gross acres and such projects shall have a continuous internal road system.
(2)
The retail center(s) lot shall not occupy, in the aggregate, more than 2% of the gross acreage of the project.
(3)
Development of the retail center(s) shall be phased in with the development of permitted uses within the project so that at no time shall the aggregate floor area of the improvements in the retail center(s) exceed 10% of the total aggregate floor area of improvements for permitted uses either constructed or being constructed pursuant to approved Site Development Plans.
(4)
Retail center(s) may not be located on a lot that fronts on or abuts any street or highway unless such street or highway is internal to the project. All access to the retail center(s) shall be from interior streets within the project. The distance from any lot line of the retail center lot to the nearest street or highway right-of-way external to the project shall be no less than 500 feet and signage for the center shall not be oriented to such external streets.
53.
Retail, limited:
For any manufacturing plant or warehouse permitted in the M-1 District, retail sales may be permitted, provided that:
a.
The products sold are either manufactured on the site, sold as parts or accessories to products manufactured on the site, or stored or distributed on the site;
b.
Not more than 30% of the floor space of the first floor of the main structure may be devoted to the retail sales of articles made, stored or distributed on the premises; and
c.
Any service facilities are limited to the repair and/or service of products manufactured, stored or distributed by the owner or lessee of the site.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit the operation of general retail sales businesses.
54.
Seasonal sales of Christmas trees or other decorative plant materials, subject to the requirements of Section 128.0.D.
55.
Sawmills.
56.
School bus, boat and recreational vehicle storage facilities.
57.
Schools, commercial.
58.
Schools, private academic, including colleges and universities.
59.
Self storage facilities.
60.
Sign making shops.
61.
Special Hospitals—Psychiatric.
62.
Taxicab businesses, including facilities for dispatch and maintenance of related vehicles.
63.
Taxidermies.
64.
Underground pipelines; electric transmission and distribution lines; telephone, telegraph and CATV lines; mobile transformer units, telephone equipment boxes; and other similar public utility uses not requiring a Conditional Use.
65.
Volunteer fire departments.
66.
Warehouses, truck terminals, and moving and storage establishments.
67.
Wholesale sale and storage of building materials and supplies, including storage yards for lumber, bricks, masonry blocks, construction equipment, plumbing and electrical supplies.
(Bill No. 20-2014(ZRA-149), § 1, 8-4-2014)
C.
Accessory Uses
1.
Any use normally and customarily incidental to any use permitted as a matter of right in this district.
2.
Communication towers and antennas which are accessory to a principal use on the lot and which exclusively serve that use. Towers are subject to the requirements of Sections 128.0.E.2 and 128.0.E.3.
3.
The following retail and service uses, on a lot used primarily for multistory business or professional offices, provided the total gross floor area of all such establishments on a lot shall not exceed 2,000 square feet and shall not exceed 10% of the total floor space of the principal use:
a.
Personal service establishments.
b.
Service agencies.
c.
Retail establishments, limited to the following: convenience stores, food stores, drug and cosmetic stores and specialty stores.
4.
Flea markets, provided that: a permit is issued by the Department of Planning and Zoning; sufficient parking exists on the site; the site has direct access to a major collector or arterial highway; and the flea market use is limited to weekends and national holidays.
5.
Small Wind Energy System, building mounted, subject to the requirements of Section 128.0.
6.
Accessory Solar Collectors.
7.
Accessory storage buildings and shipping containers, as accessory storage structures, subject to the requirements in Section 128.0.D.
(Bill No. 53-2017(ZRA-169), § 1, 11-13-2017)
D.
Bulk Regulations
(Also see Section 128.0.A, Supplementary Bulk Regulations.)
1.
The following maximum height limitations shall apply:
a.
Structure with minimum setback ..... 50 feet
b.
Structure with an additional 1 foot in height for every 2 feet of setback above the minimum ..... 100 feet
2.
The following minimum structure and use setback requirements shall be observed:
a.
From any external public street right-of-way ..... 50 feet
Except for parking uses and fences adjoining parking uses\30 feet
b.
From any internal public street right-of-way ..... 50 feet
Except for parking uses and fences adjoining parking uses\10 feet
c.
From any residential district ..... 100 feet
Except residential uses in a CAC or TOD District\75 feet
However, if the residential district is separated from the M-1 District by a public street right-of-way, only the setbacks from a public street right-of-way shall apply.
E.
Conditional Uses
Conditional Uses in the M-1 District are subject to the detailed requirements for Conditional Uses given in Section 131.0. For the list of permitted Conditional Uses, refer to the chart in Section 131.0.