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MI mixed use industrial district Lantana, Florida

The MI district promotes light industrial, manufacturing, research offices and laboratories together with commercial/institutional and residential uses. Any MI development must include all three use types by share of total square footage: light industry 30-65%, commercial/institutional 15-40%, residential 15-40%.

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Permitted uses

What you can operate in MI, Lantana

The businesses the MI district in Lantana allows. The ones on the left are permitted by right; the ones on the right need a special approval first. (Zoning codes are set by each municipality, so MI here means specifically Lantana's MI district.)

Allowed by right
Multifamily dwellingsHome-based businessesHotels and motelsLight manufacturing: fabrication, assembly, finishing work (packaging and bottling only as an accessory use)Multiple uses in the same structurePrinting, binding, or related establishmentBusiness or professional officesResearch and development officeResearch, experimental and testing laboratoryTheatersRadio or television studioManufacturing of biotechnology and pharmaceutical products (fabrication, assembly, finishing; wholesale only if affiliated with and accessory to another use or on the same lot as non-wholesale uses)Business services, e.g. printers, office suppliesArt studio and/or galleryBank, trust company, or other financial institutionRetail store for sale of merchandise (excluding vehicle and vessel sales of any kind)Eating and/or drinking establishment, whether or not liquor is sold or consumed, including restaurant, bar, lunchroom, cafeteria and food commissaryPersonal services (beauty/barber shop, laundry or dry cleaning pick-up/drop-off, self-service laundry, shoe repair or tailoring, photography studio)Parking structures, only with liner buildingsPublicly owned and operated buildings and facilities
With special approval
Colleges, universitiesHotels or motelsParking lot or garagePlanned mixed use industrial development (50 acres or greater; council may waive district, subdivision, landscape and sign regulations)
Build envelope

Development standards

Headline dimensional limits for this district. Confirm exact figures against the current code for your specific parcel.

StandardMinimum parcel 50 acres; maximum residential density 5.81 units per acre
Required use mix by total development square footagelight industry 30-65%, commercial/institutional 15-40%, residential 15-40%
StandardMaximum combined commercial and industrial FAR 1.0; maximum lot coverage 60%
StandardBuild-to line 15 ft for buildings fronting arterial/minor arterial roads; front setback from interior street ROW 10 ft; side setback from interior street ROW 10 ft
StandardMaximum building height 55 ft to cornice line or parapet; minimum building area per dwelling unit 600 sf
Prohibitedadult uses, solid waste transfer stations, concrete/asphalt plants, correctional facilities, junkyards, recycling centers, vehicle sales and repair, and any business with outdoor storage of materials, goods or equipment
StandardAccessory uses may not be located within required yard setbacks; site plan review by plan review committee and Town Council
Accessory usesAccessory uses customarily incidental and subordinate to the main use or building on a parcel; Packaging and bottling accessory to light manufacturing or biotech/pharmaceutical manufacturing; Warehouse, including cold storage building; Wholesale business (only accessory to a primary use; no development exclusively wholesale); Solar energy system, small scale; Solar energy system, large scale
StandardRead from Sec. 23-102; permitted = by right, conditional = needs conditional-use / special-exception approval
The fine print

In plain English

BY RIGHT No hearing needed

If your business is on the by-right list, you can occupy a space in this district and open — no zoning hearing. Building permits and licensing still apply, but the use itself is already allowed.

SPECIAL Approval first

Special-approval uses can work here too, but they go through a public review before opening. Plan for extra time and possible conditions — we'll tell you which path a space needs.

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Based on the Lantana zoning code.
Educational content — not legal or zoning advice. Verify permitted uses with the municipality for your specific parcel.