§ 153.087 INDUSTRIAL ZONE REGULATIONS.

   The following regulations shall apply in the I-1 light industrial/heavy commercial and the I-2 heavy industrial zones.

   (A)   I-1 light industrial/heavy commercial zone.

      (1)   Purpose. The I-1 light industrial/heavy commercial zone is intended to provide areas for light industrial and heavy commercial uses without creating adverse effects on the surrounding land use.

      (2)   Permitted uses in an I-1 zone.

         (a)   Any use permitted in a C-2 zone, provided all the uses therein shall be subject to the same regulations as specifically set forth in the I-1 zone;

         (b)   The following uses or uses of similar type:

            1.   Animal hospitals or kennels;

            2.   Motor vehicle assembly;

            3.   Painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, repair, or overhauling of motor vehicles and tire retreading or recapping shops;

            4.   Blacksmith shops and machine shops;

            5.   The manufacture of pottery or figurines, or any other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;

            6.   Chick hatcheries;

            7.   Draying, freighting, or trucking yard or terminal; and

            8.   Warehousing/wholesaling.

         (c)   The following uses or uses of a similar type, provided they shall be screened from view on the side or sides which abuts a thoroughfare or a R or C zone. Said screening shall consist of either a dense screen planting, a solid wall, a uniformly painted board fence, an earthen mound, or a combination of the aforementioned. The screening shall not be less than eight feet above an abutting thoroughfare measured vertically from the center of the road and not less than eight feet above the general topography if abutting a R or C zone:

            1.   Auto wrecking/salvage yard - development plan required;

            2.   Bleaching or dyeing - development plan required;

            3.   Stone cutting - development plan required; and

            4.   Junkyard - development plan required.

         (d)   Advertising devices shall be permitted, provided that they are erected in accordance with the provisions of § 153.093(H).

   (B)   I-2 heavy industrial zone.

      (1)   Purpose. The I-2 heavy industrial zone is intended to provide areas for industrial and related uses of such a nature that do not create serious problems of compatibility with other land uses and to make provision for certain commercial uses which are most appropriately located as neighbors of industrial uses or which provide necessary services to the people in these areas.

      (2)   Permitted uses in a I-2 zone. The following uses or uses of a similar type, provided where they are within 150 feet of a residential zone or area or commercial zone, they shall be contained wholly within a building or screened on all sides as provided for in § 153.087(A)(2)(c); except for the off-street parking and loading of delivery vehicles which are incidental thereto as required in § 153.082(A) through (C):

         (a)   Any use allowed in an I-1 Zone, § 153.087(A)(2)(a) through (A)(2)(d);

         (b)   Acetylene gas manufacture or storage;

         (c)   Agriculture;

         (d)   Alcohol manufacture;

         (e)   Ammonia or bleaching powder manufacture;

         (f)   Asphalt manufacturing or refining;

         (g)   Boiler works, locomotive, or railroad car manufacturing;

         (h)   Breweries or liquor distilleries;

         (i)   Brick, tile, terra cotta, or cinder block manufacturing;

         (j)   Central station light or power plant;

         (k)   Coal distillation including manufacture or derivation of the by-products;

         (l)   Coke oven;

         (m)   Concrete mixing plant;

         (n)   Furniture manufacture;

         (o)   Gas manufacture from coal or petroleum, or the storage thereof;

         (p)   Incinerator, industrially affiliated;

         (q)   Iron or steel foundry, steel furnace, or rolling mill, except smelting;

         (r)   Meat products manufacture;

         (s)   Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture;

         (t)   Paint, oil (including linseed), shellac, turpentine, lacquer, or varnish manufacture;

         (u)   Planing mill;

         (v)   Plastic manufacture;

         (w)   Power forge;

         (x)   Railroad yards, including turntables and repair facilities;

         (y)   Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment;

         (z)   Salvage yard;

         (aa)   Soap manufacture;

         (bb)   Tanning, curing, or storage of raw hides;

         (cc)   Tar distillation or tar products manufacture; and

         (dd)   Above-ground storage of fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, and gasoline in amounts not to exceed 50,000-gallon capacity.

(Ord. 2005-01, passed 2-17-2005) Penalty, see § 153.999