A. General Description: This industrial district is intended to provide for heavy industrial uses and other uses not otherwise provided for in the districts established in this title. The intensity and type of use makes it most desirable that the uses in the I-2 heavy industrial district be separated and/or located downwind from residential and commercial uses.
B. Permitted Uses: Property and buildings in an I-2 heavy industrial district may be used for any of the following:
Any use, except dwellings, permitted in the I-1 light industrial district. No dwelling use, except sleeping facilities required by caretakers or night watchmen employed on the premises, shall be permitted in an I-2 heavy industrial district.
Petroleum or its products, refining and bulk storage of.
Ready-mix cement plant.
The manufacturing, compounding, storage or treatment of such products as dairy products and foodstuffs. This shall include grain elevators and related uses.
C. Uses Permitted On Review: The following uses may be permitted upon review by the zoning board of appeals in accordance with the provisions of this chapter:
Acid manufacture.
Adult bookstores, except that no such establishment shall be permitted within one thousand feet (1,000') of any church, school, public park or other adult bookstore.
Any use not otherwise authorized by this title.
Distillation of bones and glue manufacture.
Explosives manufacture and storage.
Fat rendering and fertilizer manufacture.
Garbage, offal, or dead animals, reduction or dumping of.
D. Height Regulations: No building shall exceed three (3) stories or forty feet (40') in height.
E. Area Regulations: All buildings within the I-2 heavy industrial district shall comply with the following yard requirements:
1. Intensity Of Use: No building or buildings shall cover more than eighty percent (80%) of the lot area.
2. Front Yard: All buildings shall be set back from the street or highway right of way a depth of not less than ten feet (10').
3. Side Yard: No side yard shall be required, except if an I-2 heavy industrial district abuts an R or A district in which case a side yard of not less than ten feet (10') shall be required on the side abutting the R or A district.
4. Rear Yard: No rear yard shall be required, except if an I-2 heavy industrial district abuts an R or A district or a building is to be serviced from the rear in which case a rear yard of twenty five feet (25') shall be required. If a rear yard is required, this area may be used for an alley or service court if an adequate maneuvering area can be provided.
When a rear or side yard is required because an I-2 heavy industrial district abuts an R or A district, a screening fence of not less than four (4) nor more than six feet (6') maintained in good condition shall be required, or a screening hedge or other landscaping of not less than four (4) nor more than six feet (6') maintained in good condition shall be required.
F. Off Street Parking Requirements: All buildings within the I-2 heavy industrial district shall provide off street parking spaces of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet for every three (3) employees on any one working shift. In addition to these spaces, adequate area for trucks and vehicles used in the conduct of the enterprise shall be provided.
G. Off Street Loading Requirements: All buildings within the I-2 heavy industrial district shall provide off street loading spaces of not less than twelve feet (12') wide, thirty five feet (35') in length and have a minimum vertical clearance of fourteen feet (14') and may occupy all or part of any required yard. One such loading space shall be provided for the first ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area, and one additional loading space for each additional fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet or fraction thereof. (Ord. 314, 3-23-2009)