(a) 
The manufacturing use district is designed to provide land for a wide range of commercial and industrial activities subject to limitations intended to protect nearby residential and commercial districts and to protect the permitted uses from one another.
(b) 
Manufacturing district M consists mainly of areas occupied by or suitable for manufacturing, wholesale, and other industrial activities, all of a nonnuisance type.
(1977 Code, sec. 13-101)
In the M district, no land shall be used and no building shall be erected for or converted to any use other than:
(1) 
Any use permitted in the R-1, R-2, C-1, and C-2 districts, except that no building shall be erected or converted for dwelling purposes; provided, however, that dwelling quarters may be established in connection with any industrial plant for watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises, and provided further that any existing dwelling within the M district may be repaired or altered.
(2) 
Advertising displays manufacture.
(3) 
Asphalt or asphalt products.
(4) 
Automobiles, motorcycles, trucks or trailers, including parts or rebuilding of engines.
(5) 
Baseball park, commercial.
(6) 
Botching or mixing plant, asphaltic or portland cement, concrete, mortar or plaster, commercial.
(7) 
Boats, building or repair.
(8) 
Boiler manufacture.
(9) 
Books, binding, other than hand binding.
(10) 
Bottling works, for all beverages.
(11) 
Brick, stone, tile or clay, ceramics, glass, marble, and porcelain products.
(12) 
Brooms or brushes.
(13) 
Cameras or other photographic equipment and film.
(14) 
Carpets manufacture and cleaning.
(15) 
Cement, lime, or plaster of paris.
(16) 
Chemicals, including acids, acetylene, aniline dyes, ammonia, bleaching compounds, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black or bone black, cleaning or polishing preparations, creosoting, exterminating agents, hydrogen or oxygen, industrial alcohol, sugar, potash, plastic materials, or synthetic resins, or rayon yards.
(17) 
Coal, coke, charcoal, or tar products, including gas.
(18) 
Cosmetics or toiletries.
(19) 
Cotton ginning, cotton wadding or linters, cottonseed products manufacture, cotton baling or compress.
(20) 
Electrical appliances, equipment assembly, supplies, or similar products, including electrical machinery.
(21) 
Electrical power generating station.
(22) 
Excelsior or packing materials.
(23) 
Fertilizers.
(24) 
Food products.
(25) 
Furniture and upholstery.
(26) 
Gas or flammable liquids, storage or products.
(27) 
Gelatin, glue or size.
(28) 
Grain, milling or processing, elevators.
(29) 
Graphite, or graphite products.
(30) 
Gypsum.
(31) 
Hair, felt, or feathers, bulk processing, washing, curing or dyeing.
(32) 
Hatchery.
(33) 
Heavy equipment, storage repair and sales, earth moving.
(34) 
Ice, dry or natural.
(35) 
Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, or related industrial or household chemical compounds.
(36) 
Junk handling or storage, enclosed by an opaque wall or fence 6 feet in height, including automobile wrecking, salvaging, and assembling of iron, rags, and similar material.
(37) 
Jute, hemp, sisal, or oakum products.
(38) 
Laundry plant.
(39) 
Leather, feather, hair or fur tanning, currying, finishing, or dyeing, and products.
(40) 
Linoleum or oil cloth.
(41) 
Machines, business, including typewriter, accounting machines, calculators, card-counting equipment, or similar products.
(42) 
Machinery, miscellaneous, including repairs.
(43) 
Machine tools, including metal lathes, metal presses, metal stamping machines, woodworking machines, or similar products.
(44) 
Matches.
(45) 
Mattresses, including rebuilding or renovating.
(46) 
Meat or fish products, including slaughtering of meat or preparation of fish for packing.
(47) 
Metal or metal ores, reduction, refining, smelting, or alloying.
(48) 
Metal alloys of foil, miscellaneous, including solder, pewter, brass, bronze, or tin, lead or gold foil, or similar products.
(49) 
Metal or metal products, stamping or extension treatment finishing or processing, including enameling, japanning, lacquering, galvanizing, plating, or similar processes.
(50) 
Metal welding, casting or foundry products, including ornamental ironwork, or similar products.
(51) 
Musical instruments, including pianos or organs.
(52) 
Orthopedic or medical appliances, including artificial limbs, braces, supports, stretchers, or similar products.
(53) 
Paint, enamel, lacquer, turpentine, or varnish.
(54) 
Paper products, including envelopes, stationery, bags, boxes, shipping containers, bulk goods, tubes, wallpaper printing, or similar products.
(55) 
Pharmaceutical products.
(56) 
Plastic and rubber products.
(57) 
Private club as permitted by the state alcoholic beverage commission.
(58) 
Railroad yards, shops, or equipment.
(59) 
School, commercial or trade.
(60) 
Slaughtering or packing of animals or poultry.
(61) 
Soaps or detergents, perfumes.
(62) 
Sporting or athletic equipment.
(63) 
Steel products, miscellaneous fabrication or assembly.
(64) 
Textiles, spinning, weaving, manufacturing, dyeing, bleaching, printing, knit goods, yarn, thread, or cordage.
(65) 
Tires, recapping or vulcanizing shop.
(66) 
Tools or hardware, including bolts, nuts, screws, doorknobs, drills, hand tools or cutlery, hinges, house hardware, locks, nonferrous metal castings, plumbing appliances, or similar products.
(67) 
Toys and novelty products.
(68) 
Vehicles, children’s, including bicycles, scooters, wagons, baby carriages or similar vehicles.
(69) 
Venetian blinds, window shades, or awnings.
(70) 
Wood products, pulp, fiber, or lumber processing, or reduction including paper mill operations.
(71) 
Wool scouring or pulling.
(72) 
Kennel (including for breeding purposes).
(1977 Code, sec. 13-102; Ordinance 2007-03, sec. 5, adopted 5/22/07)
No structure shall exceed 100 feet in height unless set back from the required yard lines an additional foot for each 4 feet in height above 100 feet.
(1977 Code, sec. 13-103)
(a) 
The following minimum requirements shall apply:
(1) 
Lot area minimum: 10,000 square feet.
(2) 
Lot width minimum: 100 feet.
(3) 
Yards minimum:
(A) 
Front: 15 feet.
(B) 
Side: None except when abutting an R-1 or R-2 district, then 25 feet.
(C) 
Rear: 25 feet.
(b) 
Exceptions.
In all cases where the side yard is adjacent to a side street, the side yard shall not be less than 10 feet.
(1977 Code, sec. 13-104)
A site plan shall be submitted to and approved by the building official prior to the issuance of a zoning permit.
(1977 Code, sec. 13-105)