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M-1 Light Industrial District North Lauderdale, Florida

Intended primarily for the manufacture, processing and assembly of articles and nonobjectionable products not involving materials, processes or machinery likely to cause undesirable effects upon nearby or adjacent residential or business property. Permitted and special exception uses are listed in Secs.

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Permitted uses

What you can operate in M-1, North Lauderdale

The businesses the M-1 district in North Lauderdale 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 M-1 here means specifically North Lauderdale's M-1 district.)

Allowed by right
Manufacture or processing of bakery goods, candies, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, pharmaceuticals and food products (unless otherwise prohibited)Manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles from previously prepared materials (bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, fur, felt, fiber, glass, horn, hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious and semiprecious metals or stones, shells, textiles, tobacco, wood except planing mills, yarn)Manufacture of pottery, figurines and other ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, kiln-fired only by electricity or gasManufacture and assembly of metal products including electroplatingManufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, notions, and rubber and metal stampsMachine shopsAssembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radio, television and phonographs, including manufacture of small parts (coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders)Plastic manufacturing, except pyroxylinIce manufacturing and distributingBoat building, repair and salesLaundry and dry cleaning plantsStorage warehousesWelding shopWholesale establishmentsCrematory/funeral homeHome appliance repairHand laundryJob printing shopLocksmithSharpening and grindingRadio, television and phonograph repairNewspaper printing plantTaxi service establishmentNew and used automobile, truck and trailer display, sales and repair; repair and service garage, including bumping and painting; auto laundryHatchery, fish or fowlSales of new and used motorcyclesSign paintingGlass and mirror shopAwning and canvas shopFurniture repair shopMilk distributing stationsDiaper and linen servicesTire and battery storeRetail plumbing and electrical fixturesLawnmower rental, sales and serviceShip chandleryUpholstery shopPumps and wells, retail and wholesaleTaxidermistResearch and testing laboratoryPest control agencyClubs, private, noncommercialMachinery sales, storage and repairWreckers, building and automobileMajor office employment centers (office park or single office building over 30,000 sq ft gross covered area consistent with the city land use plan; must meet B-3 district requirements except a 20-ft landscaped bermed buffer where abutting a trafficway or residential district)
With special approval
Police, fire protection facilities, public safety facilitiesOffice uses other than major employment centers (subject to city land use plan restrictions; permitted uses in industrial areas)Public and private utility services and accessory buildings and structures (telephone exchange, gas and water regulation station, electric power and light substation, sewage treatment plant, water tower/storage tank/reservoir/water or waste water treatment plant)Athletic clubs and health spasAutomobile service stations, with or without repairsSales of used automobile partsBus terminalsCanning or freezing plantCitrus packing and canning plantExcavations, rock pitsSalvage and junkyardsRestaurants and fast-food restaurants, for the primary use of the employees of the industrial areaToiletries, perfumesFacilities for the manufacture, storage, transfer, loading, mixing, batching, dispensation or sale of creosote, paint, varnish, lacquer, or other preservatives, glue or adhesives, lard, shortening, animal or vegetable oils or similar productsFacilities for the manufacture, storage, transfer, loading, mixing, batching, dispensation or sale of insecticides, fertilizers, poisonous gases and similar products (storage/sale of containerized household or home garden supplies not prohibited)Convenience store for the primary use of the employees of the industrial areaTruck sales, new and usedCommercial radio, television, microwave transmission and relay stations and towersBrick, tile or terra cotta manufacturingVeterinary clinics and kennelsGovernment facilities not otherwise listed as permitted uses
Build envelope

Development standards

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

StandardMax building height 45 ft (excluding appurtenances)
Plot coveragegross floor area of buildings and accessory structures max 50% of the plot; min 20% unobstructed non-vehicular open space
Setbacks50 ft from trafficway right-of-way line per county trafficways plan; front 25 ft; side 10 ft on one side and 25 ft on the other (40 ft when abutting residential); rear 40 ft
StandardMin 20 ft (or half the height of the tallest building) between buildings on the same plot
Greenbelt25 ft landscaped perimeter abutting residential, 10 ft elsewhere
StandardAll storage (except business motor vehicles) within a fully enclosed building; loading may not front a trafficway or a residential district
Prohibitedresidential (except accessory hotels/motels), acid/corrosive manufacturing, cement/lime, explosives, packing/canning/slaughter yards, petroleum storage/refining/transfer, stockyards, rendering/glue works, pulp or paper mills, house-trailer parking as living quarters
Accessory usesPlant nursery and sales as accessory to a permitted use; Accessory uses and structures
Read from North Lauderdale Code Ch. 106 Art. XXSec. 106-486 (purpose), 106-487 (permitted uses), 106-488 (special exception uses), 106-489 (prohibited uses), 106-490 (design standards); 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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Spaces zoned M-1 in North Lauderdale

4 spaces available in this district, largest first. Click any space to view it.

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