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Industrial Park (M-1A) Margate, Florida

M-1A (Industrial Park) is one of Margate's two industrial districts (the other is M-1 Light Industrial, Sec. 40.530). Per Sec. 40.531: intended to provide land for business and industry that expands the City's economic base - businesses/industries primarily manufacturing goods and providing services for sale/use outside the City, including research, development, manufacture, and large office buildings.

2 buildings zoned M-1A11 permitted business types

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Permitted uses

What you can operate in M-1A, Margate

The businesses the M-1A district in Margate 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-1A here means specifically Margate's M-1A district.)

Allowed by right

Apparel from finished textilesBottling plantContractors, including service contractorsEducational, scientific and industrial researchFood processingLight manufacturingMeat or fish processing or slaughtering (indoors, no external noxious odors)Office buildings - business, professional, and medical (min 30,000 sf gross building area per development)Warehousing, trucking and distributionWholesaling

With special approval

Children's activity center (accessory use only; special exception per Sec. 40.306)

Build envelope

Development standards

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

PROHIBITED (Sec. 40.531(D))airport; automotive maintenance/service/repair; die casting; drop forging; foundry; hotels/motels/residential (except permitted accessory); institutions for aged/infirm/minors or group housing; manufacture of asphalt/brick/tile/cement/lime/plaster/concrete/acids/carbon/disinfectants/poison/insecticides/batteries; oil compounding/barreling; open-air bulk storage; pain management clinics; paint or varnish manufacture; vehicular rental

StandardHeight max 50 ft; min lot 20,000 sf; min building floor area 10,000 sf (no leased area <800 sf)

Setbacks35 ft from Banks/Copans Rd; 25 ft other streets; 60 ft abutting residential

Performance (Sec. 40.531(F))noise <=70 dB at property line; no off-site dust/odor/vibration/glare; smoke per Ringelmann limits

Live Local Act 2023 mixed-use structuresonly City Center District uses allowed

Accessory usesCorporate/business offices serving other permitted industrial users; Restaurants and cafeterias (accessory to a permitted office building only); Retail sales to the public (accessory only; <=25% of floor area and of sales transactions); Sewage pumping station; Transformer and electrical switching station

Read from Code of Ordinances Ch. 40 (LDC), Art. 5 (Zoning), Div. 4 (Industrial), Sec. 40.531 - Industrial ParkM-1A; permitted = by right, conditional = needs conditional-use/special approval

StandardBroward County district — confirm the parcel is inside City of Margate limits

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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