The purpose of the M-1 Light Industrial zone is to provide appropriate locations for light industrial activities and to buffer these activities from adjacent commercial and residential development through the application of site development and environmental standards.

The zone is suitable for those businesses that can be operated within a wholly enclosed building (outside storage of materials permitted if properly screened), and which are engaged in the manufacturing, processing, assembly, packaging, or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared or processed materials. Warehousing, wholesaling, and limited commercial use shall also be permitted; residential uses shall be prohibited. (Ord. 4522 §1 (part), 1992).