Zoning Ordinance

City of Roswell
P.O. Drawer 1838
Roswell, NM 88202-1838
(505) 624-6700
Fax: 624-6709

 

ARTICLE 16:
I-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT


Section 1.  Purpose

This district is intended to provide for light 
manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, 
processing, and treatment activities conducted in a manner 
not detrimental to the rest of the community by reason of 
the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, 
or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious materials, 
odors, fire, or explosive hazards, or glare or heat.

Section 2.  Use Regulations

a.	Permitted Uses.  In the I-1 district, permitted uses are 
as follows:

	1.	Any use permitted in the C-1, C-2, and C-3 
districts, except residential dwelling units

	2.	Any use of which its primary purpose is concerned 
with the light manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, 
disassembly, processing, or treatment of goods and 
products, including but not limited to:

		a)  appliances
		b)  books
		c)  clothing
		d)  drugs
		e)  electrical components
		f)  Glass and ceramics
		g)  plastic and fiberglass products
		h)  sheetmetal
		i)  tools
		j)  toys
		k)  wood-assembly and finishing

	3.	Bottling works (C-2 Special Use)

	4.	Bus stations and terminals

	5.	Food and grain processing, canning, and storage, 
excluding meat, fish, and poultry.

	6.	Gun clubs

	7.	Ice processing and storage

	8.	Machinery and service

		a)  farm equipment
		b)  diesel tractor and trailer
		c)  oil and water well drilling equipment
	9.	One mobile or permanent home to be used as a 
dwelling unit for a watchman or caretaker and family 
when located on the premises where they are employed 
in such capacity

	10.	Outdoor theaters, drive-in

	11.	Parcel delivery and mail order services, wholesale 
distribution centers, and motor freight terminals

	12.	Warehouses

	13.	Welding

	14.	Any other that meets the intent and purpose of this 
Article and is similar and comparable to those uses 
listed above.

b.	Special Uses. In the I-1 district, special uses are as 
follows:

	1.	Airports, heliports, and aircraft landing fields
	
	2.	Hospitals, sanitariums, and group care residences

	3.	Livestock feed and sales yards

	4.	Nursery school, day nursery, child care center, and 
other special and similar private schools as an 
accessory function for employees

	5.	Oil and gas wells and pumping stations

	6.	Outside storage as a principal use, and junk yards

	7.	Penal, correctional, and other institutions 
necessitating restraint of patients

	8.	Saw mills.

	9.	Recycling activities within a structure that has 
temporary outside storage as a secondary use.  All 
outside storage shall be screened with a minimum of 
an eight (8) foot solid wall except for access 
openings, with a maximum opening of sixteen (16) 
feet to be screened with a solid gate.
 

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