The intent of this district is to provide for the community’s needs for wholesale trade, storage, and warehousing, trucking, and transportation terminals, light manufacturing, and similar activities. District should be oriented to major transportation facilities yet arranged to minimize adverse effects on residential developments; therefore, some type of screening may be necessary.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
All permitted uses in this district shall undergo a zoning review during the building permit process. The required submittal for that can be found on the town website or at Town Hall. Permitted uses in the M-1 district are:
A. 
Accessory uses including:
1. 
Private swimming pools.
2. 
Fallout shelters.
B. 
Building materials sales.
C. 
Building contractors establishments.
D. 
Cabinet shops.
E. 
Enclosed warehousing.
F. 
Gasoline service stations.
G. 
Light manufacturing.
H. 
Machine shops.
I. 
Manufacturing of light consumer goods, i.e., electronic equipment, appliances, furniture, beverages.
J. 
Outside storage if accessory to permitted use and if screened from street and surrounding properties by solid fence six feet high.
K. 
Paint shops.
L. 
Rental of automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and other vehicles.
M. 
Repair and service establishments for light consumer goods, i.e., automobiles, appliances, furniture.
N. 
Sign shops.
O. 
Temporary buildings for and during construction only.
P. 
Truck and rail terminal facilities.
Q. 
Vehicle and boat sales.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
The uses that are permitted in the M-1 district if successful in acquiring a conditional use permit approval from the town of West Yellowstone are as follows:
A. 
Communications tower.
B. 
Heavy manufacturing.
C. 
Industrial uses.
D. 
Live-work units.
E. 
Salvage yards.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Lot area for this district shall not be less than seven thousand five hundred square feet and no lot width shall be less than seventy-five feet.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
The entire lot, exclusive of required yards and parking, may be occupied by the principal and accessory buildings.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
A. 
Every lot shall have the following minimum yards:
1. 
Front yard, twenty feet.
2. 
Rear yard, fifteen feet.
3. 
Side yards, fifteen feet each side.
B. 
When a lot is adjacent or faces upon another zone, the yards shall meet the requirements of the adjoining zone and the entire property line that abuts the other zone shall be screened with either a decorative fence or plantings. When a lot abuts a street or alley on any side, a yard of at least fifteen feet shall be provided on the street or alley side.
No accessory building shall be erected in any required yard, and no accessory building shall be erected within ten feet of any principal building unless a variance is granted by the town of West Yellowstone.
All outdoor merchandise as defined in Chapter 17.04 shall have an eighteen-inch setback from all property lines.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
When a lot faces more than one street and front yard setbacks have been established on both streets, corner lot setbacks shall be at least as great as the minimum front yard setback established for the district. If the lot is completely in one district then both sides of a corner lot shall conform to the front setback in that district.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Every part of a required yard or court shall be open and unobstructed by any building or structure from its lowest point upward except as follows:
A. 
Architectural features that include belfries, cornices, chimneys, canopies, eaves, balconies, steeples, or other similar features may extend into a required yard space not more than three feet.
B. 
Open, unwalled, uncovered steps and entrance landings may extend into a required yard space not more than five feet.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
Maximum building height in this district shall be forty feet. All elements of a structure shall be at or below the maximum height in the district, unless it is an architectural feature, as defined in Chapter 17.04, which may extend to six feet above the maximum height.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
On corner lots on streets in all districts, no fence, wall, or planting in excess of four feet above the street centerline grade is permitted within the area defined as follows: beginning at the intersection of the physical roadway twenty feet along each roadway, except when traffic control signals are installed.
At the intersection of each driveway or alley with a street, no fence, wall, or planting in excess of four feet above the street centerline grade is permitted fifteen feet on each side of the physical intersection of the driveway or alley with the street.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
All salvage dealers, or other persons accumulating, depositing, or storing salvage material within the town limits when the accumulating, depositing, or storing thereof shall be without a building or not within a building, either now stored, deposited, or accumulated, shall fence surrounding salvage materials with a solid fence at least six feet high, sufficient to enclose the salvaged materials from public view from outside the enclosure. No salvage material may be placed in the front or side yard setback that abuts a street of a corner lot.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)
A. 
Fences, walls, and hedges in any district may be located on lot lines provided such fences, walls, and hedges do not exceed eight feet in height, measured from the adjacent ground elevation. Fences, walls, and hedges exceeding eight feet in height, measured from the ground elevation, shall be subject to the minimum yard requirements of the district in which they are located unless a variance is granted by the town of West Yellowstone.
B. 
No fences, walls, and hedges shall exceed four feet in any front yard as defined in this title.
C. 
No barbed wire or other sharp fencing materials and no electrically charged fence shall be erected or maintained in any district created by this title.
D. 
In case of a fence erected on top of a retaining wall, the height shall be measured from the grade of the high side of the wall.
(Ord. 276 Exh. 1, 2024)