(A) General description. This industrial district is intended primarily for the conduct of manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication. These uses do not depend primarily on frequent visits of customers or clients but usually require good accessibility to major rail, air, or street transportation facilities.
(Prior Code, § 18-46)
(B) Uses permitted. Property and buildings in an I-1 District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) Any use, except a residential use, permitted in an R-1 or C-1 District. No dwelling uses (except sleeping facilities for caretakers and night watchpersons employed on the premises) shall be permitted;
(2) Any of the following uses:
(a) Bottling works;
(b) Book bindery;
(c) Candy manufacturing;
(d) Engraving plan including memorial stones;
(e) Electrical equipment assembly;
(f) Electronic equipment assembly and manufacture;
(g) Food products processing and packing;
(h) Furniture manufacturing;
(i) Jewelry and watch manufacturing;
(j) Leather goods fabrication;
(k) Optical goods manufacturing;
(l) Paper products manufacturing;
(m) Shoe manufacturing;
(n) Sporting good manufacturing; and
(o) Wholesale or warehousing enterprise.
(3) Building material sales yard and lumber yard, including the sale of rock, sand, gravel, and the like as an incidental part of the main business but not including a concrete batch plant or transit mix plant;
(4) Contractor’s equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors;
(5) Farm produce, grain, and feed storage including grain elevators;
(6) Freighting or trucking yard or terminal;
(7) Oil field equipment storage yard;
(8) Public utility service yard or electrical receiving or transforming station;
(9) Town and county equipment service yard; and
(10) The following uses when conducted within a completely enclosed building:
(a) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products;
(b) The manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellulose, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stone, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn, and paint not employing a boiling process;
(c) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(d) The manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products (including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment), cornices, eaves, and the like;
(e) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps;
(f) Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender works, truck repairing and overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, and battery manufacturing;
(g) Machine shops;
(h) Foundry casing lightweight nonferrous metal, not causing noxious fumes or odors;
(i) Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, and phonographs including the manufacture of small parts only such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders, and the like; and
(j) Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses. The uses permitted under this section shall be conducted in such a manner that no noxious odor, fumes, or dust will be emitted beyond the property line of the lot on which the use is located.
(Prior Code, § 18-47)
(C) Conditional uses permitted on review. The following uses may be permitted on review by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions contained in § 154.051(D):
(1) Cement, lime, or gypsum manufacture;
(2) Commercial feed pens for livestock;
(3) Disposal plants of all types including trash, garbage, and sewage treatment (including lagoons and compost plants);
(4) Natural gas production and distribution;
(5) Packing house;
(6) Petroleum production and refining;
(7) Sale barn;
(8) Salvage yards for automobiles, building materials, scrap metals, junk, or for any other kind of salvage; provided, however, all salvage operations shall be so screened by ornamental walls, fences, of evergreen planting that it cannot be seen by a person standing at ground level at any place immediately adjacent to the lot on which the salvage operation is located;
(9) Wholesale or bulk storage of gasoline, propane or butane, or other petroleum products; and
(10) Any use not otherwise authorized by this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 18-48)
(D) Area regulations.
(1) Front yard. All buildings shall set back from the street right-of-way line to provide a front yard having not less than 15 feet in depth.
(2) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than ten feet to a side lot line except when abutting a residential district. Then, it shall have a 35 feet side yard.
(3) Rear yard. Where a building is to be serviced from the rear, there shall be provided an alley, service court, rear yard, or combination thereof of not less than 30 feet in width or of adequate area and width to provide for maneuver of service vehicles, whichever is greater. In all other cases, no rear yard is required; provided, however, a building shall be set back a distance of not less than 25 feet from the rear lot line that adjoins a dwelling district.
(Prior Code, § 18-49)
(E) Height regulations. No building shall exceed 90 feet in height except as hereinafter provided in § 154.047(E).
(Prior Code, § 18-50)
(F) Screening regulations. No article or material permitted in this district shall be kept, stored, or displayed outside the confines of a building unless it is screened by fences, walls, or plantings that it cannot be seen from adjoining public streets or adjacent lots when viewed by a person standing at ground level.
(Prior Code, § 18-51)