(A) Residential primary uses.
(1) Household living.
(a) Dwelling, single-family detached: standard. A single-family detached dwelling: standard is a detached structure on a medium or large-size lot containing one dwelling unit. It is typically located within a primarily single-family neighborhood. This type is the most common type found in Bargersville. Typically, this building type has a front-load garage, but side-load garages are possible on corner lots or wider lots and rear-load garages are possible on lots abutting an alley.
(b) Dwelling, single-family detached: compact. A single-family detached dwelling: compact is a detached structure on a small lot containing one dwelling unit. It is typically located within a primarily single-family neighborhood in a walkable urban setting. This building type enables appropriately scaled, well-designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability. Typically, this building type has a rear-load garage, but front-load garages are possible if the garage is recessed well behind the front facade of the house. It is important that the front facade of this building type not be dominated by garage doors.
(c) Dwelling - duplex. A duplex dwelling is a small to medium-size structure that consists of two side-by-side or stacked dwelling units, both facing the street, and within a single building massing. This type has the appearance of a medium to large single-family home and is appropriately scaled to it within primarily single-family residential neighborhoods or medium-density residential neighborhoods. It enables appropriately scaled, well- designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability. Both units may be on one lot, or the lot can be split so each unit is on its own lot.
(d) Dwelling - bungalow court. A bungalow court consists of a series of small, detached structures, providing multiple units arranged on a single lot to define a shared court that is typically perpendicular to the street. The shared court takes the place of a private backyard and becomes an important community-enhancing element of this type. This type is appropriately scaled to it within primarily single-family or medium-density neighborhoods. It enables appropriately scaled, well-designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability. Parking is typically located along an alley at the rear of the lot.
(e) Dwelling - townhouse. A townhouse is a small to medium-size typically attached structure that consists of two to eight townhouses placed side by side. This type may also occasionally be detached with minimal separations between the buildings. This type is typically located within medium-density residential neighborhoods or in a location that transitions from a primarily single-family residential neighborhood into a neighborhood main street. This type enables appropriately scaled, well-designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability.
(f) Dwelling - apartment building: small. An apartment building: small is a structure that consists of three to six side-by-side and/or stacked dwelling units, typically with one shared entry or individual entries along the front. This type has the appearance of a large-size family home and is appropriately scaled to fit within traditional residential or mixed-density residential. This type enables appropriately scaled, well-designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability. Parking is typically located in the rear of the lot behind the building.
(g) Dwelling - apartment building: large. An apartment building: large is a medium to large-size structure that consists of seven to 30 side-by-side and/or stacked dwelling units, typically with one shared entry. Used in an infill development context, this type is appropriately scaled to fit within mixed density residential neighborhoods or sparingly within large lot predominantly single-family residential neighborhoods. On larger sites, multiple buildings per lot may be appropriate. This type enables appropriately scaled, well-designed higher densities, provides a broad choice of housing types, and promotes walkability.
(h) Accessory dwelling unit. A separate, complete housekeeping unit with a separate entrance, kitchen, sleeping area, and full bathroom facilities, which is an attached or detached extension to an existing single-family structure.
(i) Upper story residential. In a vertically mixed-use building, residential uses occurring above the first floor of the building.
(j) Live/work dwelling. A live/work dwelling is a small to medium-size attached or detached structure that consists of one dwelling unit above and/or behind a flexible ground floor space that can be used for service or retail uses. Both the ground-floor flex space and the unit above are owned by one entity. This type is typically located within medium-density neighborhoods or in a location that transitions from a neighborhood into a neighborhood main street. It is especially appropriate for incubating neighborhood-serving retail and service uses and allowing neighborhood main streets to expand as the market demands. Parking is typically located in the rear of the lot behind the building, often in an attached or detached garage.
(k) Mobile home. A movable or portable unit, eight feet or more wide and is 32 feet or more in length, and constructed to be towed on its own chassis (comprised of frame and wheels) from the place of construction to the location or subsequent locations, and designed to be used without a permanent foundation and connected to utilities for year-round occupancy with or without a permanent foundation. The term includes:
1. Units containing parts that can be folded, collapsed, or telescoped when being towed and that may be expanded to provide additional cubic capacity;
2. Units composed of two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being separated again into the components for repeated towing; and
3. Units designed to be used for residential, commercial, educational, or industrial purposes, excluding recreational vehicles.
(l) Residence for older adults. A single unit dwelling or multi-unit dwelling housing unrelated mobile older adults (individuals 55 or more years of age) more than the number of unrelated persons permitted per dwelling unit, receiving fewer services than a special care home or assisted living facility. A residence for older adults is not considered a residential care use.
(m) Upper story residential. Dwelling units on upper floors of buildings with nonresidential uses at street level.
(2) Group living.
(a) Assisted living facility. A facility for adults in need of some protective oversight or assistance due to functional limitation that provides a living arrangement integrating shelter, food, and other supportive services to maintain a functional residential status.
(b) Childcare home. A family home that receives more than three and up to a maximum of eight children for less than 24 hours per day. The number counted includes the family's natural or adopted children and all other persons under the age of 12.
(c) Fraternity, sorority, or student housing. A building containing living quarters for students, staff, or members of an accredited college, university, boarding school, theological school, hospital, religious order, or comparable organization; provided that the building is owned or managed by the organization and contains no more than one cooking and eating area.
(d) Group residential facility. A facility licensed by the State of Indiana to provide a homelike setting to the developmentally disabled and/or the mentally ill. This provides the benefits of a group living situation as an alternative to hospitalization or institutionalization.
(e) Nursing home. Any institution, whether operated for profit or not, that seeks to provide for a period exceeding 24 hours, nursing care, personal care, or custodial care for three or more persons not related to the owner or manager by blood or marriage, who by reason of illness, physical infirmity, or advanced age require such services, but, in contradistinction to a hospital, does not include any place providing care or treatment primarily for the acutely ill.
(f) Hospice. A facility that provides inpatient care and attends to the emotional, spiritual, social, and financial needs of terminally ill patients and their families.
(g) Rooming or boarding house. A residential building containing one or more guest rooms used, rented, or hired out, with or without meals, for permanent occupancy. A rooming and boarding house makes no provision for cooking in any of the guest rooms occupied by paying guests.
1. A rooming and boarding house use is not considered a residential care use.
2. A rooming and boarding house use is not considered a student housing use.
(B) Civic, public, and institutional primary uses.
(1) Basic utilities.
(a) Utility, major impact. A utility use that due to its nature or large scale could have an adverse impact on surrounding properties. Examples include sanitary sewer treatment plants and solid waste facilities.
(b) Utility, minor impact. A utility use that due to its nature or small scale is unlikely to have an adverse impact on surrounding properties. Examples include telephone switching stations and completely enclosed utilities.
(2) Community/public services.
(a) Cemetery. Any land or structure dedicated to and used for the interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains.
(b) Childcare facilities. Any place other than a family home in which people receive childcare services during any part of a day not exceeding 13 hours in any 24-hour period and licensed pursuant to the town and state requirements.
(c) Community center. A place, structure, area, or other facility used for and providing programs, information and services generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community.
(d) Correctional institution. Publicly or privately operated facility housing people awaiting trial or people serving a sentence after being found guilty of a criminal offense.
(e) Fairgrounds. An area where buildings, structures, and land are used for the exhibition of livestock, farm products, etc. and/or for carnival-like entertainment.
(f) Golf courses and country clubs. Golf courses are any area within the ground set aside for the purposes of playing golf and includes any golf driving range, golf practice area, or putting green. A country club includes a location with facilities for outdoor sports and social activities for which members pay a membership fee other than a daily fee, periodically for the use of facilities and services by them.
(g) Hospital, major. An institution licensed by state law providing short-term health services and medical or surgical care to patients and injured persons. Open 24 hours a day, a major hospital contains more than 100 beds and may offer a wide range of services, including emergency care, scheduled surgeries, labor and delivery services, diagnostic testing, lab work, and patient education. Patients may receive inpatient or outpatient care.
(h) Hospital, minor. An institution licensed by state law providing short-term health services and medical or surgical care to patients and injured persons. A minor hospital contains less than 100 beds, may be open 24 hours a day, and may offer services similar to a major hospital, but at a much smaller scale.
(i) Library, museums, and cultural facilities. A library is a public facility for the use, but not sale, of literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials. A museum is an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value.
(j) Municipal and government buildings. A building or facility utilized in the operation of local government. Municipal buildings and facilities include office space for the operation of administrative functions, police, fire, public works, emergency services, disaster relief, municipal parking lots, garages, storage facilities, and lift stations.
(k) Parks and playground. An area of land designed or reserved for active or passive recreational use, including all natural and man-made open space and landscaping, facilities, playing fields, and buildings that are consistent with the general purposes of recreation, whether such recreational facilities are public operated or operated by other organizations pursuant to arrangements with the public authority owning the public park. Public parks include tot lots, band shells, picnic grounds, pedestrian trails and paths, landscaped buffers, playgrounds, water features, baseball diamonds, football fields, soccer pitches, and similar outdoor sports fields.
(3) Education.
(a) Colleges and universities. Educational institutions that offer specialized instruction in any of several fields of study and/or in several professions or occupations and is authorized to confer various degrees such as the bachelor's degree. University or college uses may be composed of multiple buildings and uses organized on an integrated campus property composed of one or more zone lots and blocks. Education uses may include a variety of uses such as classroom buildings, administrative offices, sports facilities, student housing, research facilities and other related uses operated by the governing board of the institution within the campus or on adjoining zone lots.
(b) Commercial studios. A commercial operation that includes the sale of, and may include the instruction in, arts and crafts, dance, music and instruments, commercial photography, and other similar commercially oriented operations.
(c) Schools - elementary, middle, and high. An institution for the teaching of children; also, physical improvements and structures related to the activity of teaching, as well as associated accessory uses and structures, including maintenance areas, parking athletic fields, outdoor study areas, etc.
(d) Vocational schools. A school established to provide for the teaching of industrial, clerical, managerial, or artistic skills. This definition applies to private entities that do not offer a complete educational curriculum (e.g., professional schools, dance schools, business schools, trade schools, art schools, etc.).
(4) Public and religious assembly.
(a) Banquet facilities and reception halls. A building or a portion of a building rented or reserved by individuals, businesses, or groups to accommodate private functions including banquets, weddings, anniversaries, and other similar celebrations. The facilities may include: (1) kitchen facilities for the preparation or catering of food; (2) the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, only during scheduled events and not open to the public; and (3) outdoor gardens or reception facilities.
(b) Club or lodge. An association of persons organized for a common purpose to pursue common goals, interests or activities characterized by certain membership qualifications, payment of fees or dues, regular meetings and a constitution or bylaws.
(c) Places of worship. A church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other facility used for public worship where organized services are held by persons of similar beliefs.
(d) Public and religious assembly, all others. Public and religious assembly uses are permanent places where persons regularly assemble for religious worship or secular activities, and which are maintained and controlled by a body organized to sustain the religious or public assembly. Public assembly uses include civic and social organizations such as private lodges, clubs, fraternities, and similar private membership organizations.
(C) Commercial sales, services, and repair primary uses.
(1) Adult business. Adult businesses are characterized by commercial establishments where the primary use is the sale, rental, display or other offering of live entertainment, dancing, or material characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(2) Arts, recreation and entertainment.
(a) Art, recreation, and entertainment, indoor. A public or private facility that provides indoor entertainment including, video arcades, virtual reality games, and mechanical rides.
(b) Arts, recreation and entertainment, outdoor. A public or private facility that provides outdoor entertainment including waterslides, water parks, go-cart tracks, miniature golf, batting cages and mechanical rides and games.
(c) Sports and/or entertainment arena or stadium. A large structure with tiers of seats for spectators at sporting or other recreational events.
(3) Parking of vehicles.
(a) Parking garage. A structure of two or more stories used for the temporary parking or storage of more than four motor vehicles.
(b) Parking lot. An off-street, surfaced, ground level open area used for the temporary parking or storage of more than four motor vehicles.
(4) Eating and drinking establishments.
(a) Restaurant - Class A (table service). An establishment whose principal business is the sale of edible, prepared food stuffs and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. A Class A restaurant is a restaurant whose principal method of operation includes any two of the following characteristics:
1. Customers are provided with an individual menu, are served their food or beverages by wait staff, at the same table items are consumed.
2. Cafeteria-type operations where foods or beverages are generally consumed within the restaurant building.
3. Carryout service is not the predominant type of service available.
(b) Restaurant - Class B (counter service, no drive-thru). An establishment whose principal business is the sale of edible, prepared food stuffs and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. A Class B restaurant is a restaurant not falling within the classification of Class A restaurant and having characteristics of offering food service over a counter, having a limited menu of items already prepared and held for service, or prepared, fried, or grilled quickly, or heated in a microwave oven.
(c) Restaurant - Class C (counter service with drive-thru). Similar to a Class B restaurant, a Class C restaurant offers food service over a counter and/or through a drive-through facility.
(d) Tavern. An establishment whose principal business is the sale and service of alcoholic beverages at retail for consumption on the premises. Food and snacks may also be made available for consumption on the premises.
(e) Winery and microbrewery. A facility where wine or beer is sold for consumption onsite or off the premises and may include a restaurant, beverage room, or retail store as accessory uses.
(5) Lodging accommodations.
(a) Bed and breakfast establishment. A transient lodging establishment, generally in a single-family dwelling or detached guesthouse, primarily engaged in providing overnight or otherwise temporary lodging for the public and may provide meals for compensation.
(b) Hotel or motel. A hotel is a building in which lodging is offered with or without meals principally to transient guests and that provides a common entrance, lobby, halls and stairways. A motel is an establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached living or sleeping accommodations for transient guests with bathrooms and closet space, located on a single lot and where access to the sleeping accommodations is directly from the outside. A motel furnishes customary hotel services such as maid service and laundering of linen, telephone and secretarial or desk service, and the use and upkeep of furniture.
(6) Office.
(a) Dental/medical office or clinic. An establishment where human patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians, dentists, other health care professionals, or similar professions.
(b) Medical clinic - special handling. Structures and land where prescription medications are dispensed and/or human patients are admitted for examination and treatment, including substance abuse facilities, where no more than 20 patients are provided with overnight care, meals, and lodging.
(c) Research and development offices. A building or group of buildings containing one or more of the following types of facilities:
1. A research and development facility, training facility, production studio, laboratory, display/showroom/sales facility, or other similar use which typically has a high ratio of square feet of floor area per employee;
2. A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and analysis of any product. No manufacturing is conducted on the premises except for experimental or testing purposes;
3. A business primarily engaged in the development or engineering of computer software or computer hardware, but excluding retail sales, computer hardware manufacturers, and computer repair services;
4. A facility for the servicing of technological equipment and/or office machinery, such as computers, copying machines and word processing equipment;
5. A facility for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory;
6. A facility devoted to the testing and analysis of any product, including medical laboratories, biological product manufacturing, and blood and organ banks;
7. A laboratory that provides bacteriological, biological, medical, X-ray, pathological and similar analytical or diagnostic services to doctors or dentists. No fabricating is conducted on the premises, except the custom fabrication of dentures or similar dental appliances. This definition excludes in-patient or overnight care, animal hospitals, veterinarians, or other similar services.
(d) Office, all others. A use or structure where business or professional activities are conducted and/or business or professional services are made available to the public, including tax preparation, accounting, architecture, legal services, psychological counseling, real estate, and securities brokering, and professional consulting services, but not including drive-through service windows, the cutting and styling or hair, or recreational facilities or amusements.
(7) Retail sales, service and repair.
(a) Animal sales and services - household pets. An establishment engaged in any of the following:
1. The retail sale, grooming, or care of domestic or household animals only, and which may include overnight accommodations. The retail sale of domestic animals (e.g., pet store) is permitted.
2. The maintaining, raising, harboring and/or boarding of four or more dogs, or six or more cats, or six or more dogs and cats is considered a primary "animal services and sales - household pets only" use.
3. Provision of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery services by licensed veterinary practitioners for household or domestic pets only.
(b) Animal sales and services, all others. An establishment engaged in the retail sale, grooming, care, breeding, or boarding of animals, not restricted to domestic or household pets, and which may include overnight accommodations. Includes provision of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery services by licensed veterinary practitioners and animal kennels or other animal boarding facilities not limited to domestic or household pets.
(c) Appliance sales and repair. An establishment primarily engaged in the sale, maintenance, or restoration of household or domestic appliances.
(d) Auction houses. An establishment involving a sale barn or sale pavilion and its contiguous surroundings where two or more auctions are held within any 12-month period. Each day goods or real estate are being offered for sale at auction constitutes one auction. For facilities used exclusively for the auctioning of livestock see division (E)(10) of this section.
(e) Banks and financial institutions. An establishment including a chartered bank, saving association, credit union, or industrial loan company, primarily engaged in the business of providing banking and related financial services to customers, but excluding any establishment whose primary purpose is to provide cash advances, pay day loans, pay day advances, and similar services.
(f) Food catering service. An establishment where food and/or beverages, intended for sale or distribution, are prepared in bulk or individual portions, for service in bulk or individual portions, at another location.
(g) Fueling stations. A building and premises where the primary use is the supply and dispensation of retail gasoline, diesel fuel, oil, grease, batteries, tires, motor vehicle accessories, and electric vehicle charging stations, and where minor repair services may be provided. This service shall not include major vehicle repair. A parking space served by battery charging station equipment provides transfer of electric energy (by conductive or inductive means) to a battery or other energy source device in an electric vehicle.
(h) Grocery or market. Establishments primarily engaged in the direct retail sale of food items such as meats, cereals, grains, produce, baked goods, dairy products, canned and frozen prepared food products, beverages, cleaning supplies, pet food and supplies, pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter medicines, personal products, household goods, books and magazines, plants, and other sundry and similar items are available to be purchased by the consumer. Grocery retail includes grocery stores, supermarkets, meat or fish markets, fruit and vegetable markets, and other uses similar in nature and impact.
(i) Kennels. Any premises used to board, breed, sell, train, or treat more than three dogs, cats or other domestic pets who are more than six months old.
(j) Lawn equipment and small engine sales and service. An establishment engaged in the retail sale, rental, or mechanical repair of lawn mowers and small engines.
(k) Pawn shop. An establishment primarily engaged in the loaning of money on the security of property pledged in the keeping of the pawnbroker, and the sale of the property.
(l) Retail sales, service and repair, outdoor. The display and sale of products and services outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, garden supplies, gas, motor oil, food and beverages, boats and aircraft, farm equipment, motor homes, burial monuments, building and landscape materials, and similar materials or items.
(m) Retail sales, service and repair, special handling. Retail businesses that primarily sell products that require special handling due to risks to public safety. Example businesses include massage parlors, tattoo shops, piercing shops, vapor smoke shops, gun sales, truck stops, flea markets, swap meets, and hunting stores.
(n) Retail sales, service and repair, all others. A commercial enterprise that provides goods and/or services directly to the consumer, where the goods are available for immediate purchase and removal from the premises.
(8) Vehicle/equipment sales service and repair.
(a) Automobile services, light. Establishments providing routine maintenance and minor repair servicing of automobiles, which may include washing, cleaning, waxing, greasing, tire repair, wheel alignment, brake repair, muffler replacement, engine tune-up, flushing of radiators, servicing of air conditioners, and other activities of minor repair and servicing.
(b) Automobile services, heavy. Establishments providing major repairs and servicing of automobiles, including engine overhaul or replacement, body work, upholstery work, glass replacement, transmission overhaul, brake repair with drum and disc grinding, replacement of electrical accessories such as starters and alternators, frame alignment, and rebuilding of wrecked automobiles, excluding commercial wrecking, dismantling, junk yard, truck and tractor repair.
(c) Boat sales, rentals, and repair. Establishments primarily engaged in the sales, leasing, rental, and related servicing of new and used boats and similar items; excluding dismantling or junk yard.
(d) Heavy vehicle/equipment sales and rentals. Establishments primarily engaged in the sales, leasing, or rental, and related servicing, of high capacity mechanical devices for moving earth or other materials, and mobile power units including: carryalls, graders, loading and unloading devices, cranes, drag lines, trench diggers, tractors, augers, bulldozers, concrete mixers and conveyors, harvester combines and other major agricultural equipment and similar devices, trucks in excess of one-and-one-half tons or equipment for use in agriculture, mining, industry, business, transportation, building, or construction; or automobile hitches or trailers, house trailers, and recreational vehicles, but excluding commercial wrecking, dismantling, or junk yard.
(e) Light vehicle/motorcycle sales and rentals. Establishments primarily engaged in the sales, leasing, rental, and related servicing of new and used automobiles, light trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles limited to a capacity of not more than one-and-one-half tons, motorcycles, motor scooters, mopeds, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, go- carts, automobile hitches or utility trailers, and similar items; excluding commercial wrecking, dismantling, or junk yard.
(D) Industrial, manufacturing, and wholesale primary uses.
(1) Communications and information.
(a) Small cell facility. A personal wireless service facility (defined by the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended) or a wireless facility satisfying the following requirements: (a) each antenna, including exposed elements, has a volume of six cubic feet or less; and (b) the primary equipment enclosure located with the facility has a volume of 28 cubic feet or less. The volume of the primary equipment enclosure excludes: electric meters, concealment equipment, telecommunications demarcation boxes, ground based enclosures, backup power systems, grounding equipment, power transfer switches, and cutoff switches.
(b) Telecommunications towers. Any structure designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, and other similar structures. This term also includes any antenna or antenna array attached to the tower structure.
(c) Telecommunications facilities. The plant, equipment, and property, including cables, wires, conduits, ducts, pedestals, antennas, towers, electronics, and other appurtenances used to transmit, receive, distribute, provide or offer telecommunications services.
(2) Industrial services.
(a) Chemical manufacturing and storage. An establishment used for the manufacture or storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products.
(b) Contractors, general. An establishment providing general contracting and/or building construction services for residential, farm, industrial, or commercial uses, and which typically does not involve outdoor storage of machinery or equipment. This definition includes: general building contractors; plumbing, heating, air conditioning; painting and paper hanging; electrical work; masonry, stonework, and plastering; carpentry and floor works; roofing, siding, and sheet metal work; glass and glazing work; installing building equipment; and special trade contractors.
(c) Contractors, heavy/contractor yard. Establishments providing general contracting and/or construction services other than for buildings, such as for highways and streets, bridges, sewers, and flood control projects, and which may involve outdoor storage of machinery or equipment, or a contractor yard for vehicles, equipment, materials and/or supplies.
(d) Food preparation and sales, commercial. Establishments primarily engaged in the preparation and production of prepared food items in individual servings for off-premises consumption and/or sale by others. Typical uses include wholesale bakeries, commissary kitchens, specialty food packaging and/or processing shops, and flight kitchens.
(3) Manufacturing.
(a) Manufacturing, fabricating, and assembly - general. A manufacturing establishment primarily engaged in the fabrication or assembly of products from prestructured materials or components; or a manufacturing establishment whose operations include storage of materials; processing, fabrication, or assembly of products; and loading and unloading of new materials and finished products, and does not produce or utilize in large quantities as an integral part of the manufacturing process, toxic, hazardous, or explosive materials. Because of the nature of its operations and products, little or no noise, odor, vibration, glare, and/or air and water pollution is produced, and, therefore, there is minimal impact on surrounding properties.
(b) Manufacturing, fabricating, and assembly - heavy. A manufacturing establishment whose operations include storage of materials; processing, fabrication, or assembly of products; and loading and unloading of new materials and finished products. Toxic, hazardous, or explosive materials may be produced or used in large quantities as an integral part(s) of the manufacturing process. Noise, odor, dust, vibration, or visual impacts, as well as potential public health problems in the event of an accident, could impact adjacent properties.
(c) Manufacturing or refinement of asphalt, cement, gypsum, lime, or wood preservatives. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing asphalt and tar paving mixtures or various compositions of asphalt or tar with other materials; manufacturing plaster, plasterboard, and other products composed wholly or chiefly of gypsum; manufacturing quicklime, hydrated lime, and "dead-burned" dolomite from limestone, dolomite shells, or other substances; or treating wood, sawed or planed in other establishments, with creosote or other preservatives to prevent decay and to protect against fire and insects.
(4) Mining, extraction, and energy conservation.
(a) Mineral extraction. Establishments primarily engaged in the process of removing or extracting minerals and building stone from naturally occurring veins, deposits, bodies, beds, seams, fields, pools, or other concentrations in the earth's crust. This term also includes the preliminary treatment of such ore or building stone.
(b) Sand and gravel extraction or sales. Establishments primarily engaged in the extraction of sand and gravel from an open pit to be processed and sold for commercial purposes.
(c) Solar energy conservation system. Any mechanism designed for the purpose of converting solar energy into mechanical or electrical power.
(d) Wind energy conservation system. Any mechanism including blades, rotors and other moving surfaces designed for the purpose of converting wind into mechanical or electrical power.
(5) Transportation facilities.
(a) Airport. A facility operated by an airport authority or governmental entity that provides infrastructure and services for air travel, together with all activities commonly associated with the operation of a major air carrier facility. Such services, infrastructure, and activities may include but are not limited to: landing fields; facilities for the parking, storage, fueling, repair, and rental of aircraft; passenger and baggage terminals; air cargo operations and associated facilities; public transportation infrastructure, including terminals and stations; safety facilities such as fire and police stations; open space uses such as agriculture, parks, golf courses, and recreation; energy production; retail, concessions, and other uses designed primarily to serve airline passengers, other airport users, and space; and other accessory uses as determined by the Administrator.
(b) Heliport and helipad. A facility for landing or take-off area for rotor craft that may include a passenger terminal and/or routine servicing of rotor craft.
(c) Mass transit facility. A facility for bus or other types of transportation service available to the public that move relatively large numbers of people at one time.
(d) Rail distribution yards. A facility for the operation of a line-haul or short-line freight railroad.
(e) Transportation services. Passenger services provided by public, private, or non-profit entities using modes such as express buses, minibuses, or vans.
(6) Waste related services.
(a) Automobile parts recycling center. An establishment where motor vehicles are dismantled for selling usable parts and which does not include a junk yard.
(b) Composting facility. A commercial or public solid waste processing facility where yard or garden waste is transformed into soil or fertilizer by biological decomposition.
(c) Recycling center. A facility where recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, glass, metal cans, plastic materials, tires, grass and leaves, and similar items, except mixed, unsorted municipal waste or medical waste are collected, stored, flattened, crushed, bundled, or separated by grade or type, compacted, baled or packaged for shipment to others for the manufacture of new products. This use does not include SIC group 5015 (motor vehicle parts, used), which is listed as a separate use.
(d) Recycling drop-off facilities. A facility for the drop-off and temporary holding of materials such as paper, cardboard, glass, metal, plastic, batteries, and motor oil. Processing of materials is limited to glass breaking and separation.
(e) Recycling plant, scrap processor. A facility at which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, books, and other paper products; glass; metal and aluminum cans; waste oil; iron and steel scrap; rubber; organic materials; and/or other products are recycled and treated to return such products to a condition in which they may again be used for production or for retail or wholesale trade. This definition includes, but is not limited to, all uses in the following SIC group: 5093 Scrap and Waste Materials.
(f) Salvage or junk yards. A place where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, but excluding the purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment, used cars in operable condition, used or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations.
(g) Solid waste facility. An establishment in which municipal solid waste is collected, separated by material, compacted, baled, or packaged for shipment to others for the manufacture of new products or for disposal. No manufacturing, remanufacturing, fabrication, or processing of new products occurs in this facility. This use may include a waste transfer station.
(7) Wholesale storage, warehouse and distribution.
(a) Automobile towing service storage yard. The assembling or standing of damaged or impounded vehicles for indeterminate periods of time, excluding the wrecking, dismantling, or repairing of vehicles.
(b) Bottled gas storage and distribution. A facility where compressed gas is stored in pressurized portable tanks and is the origin or destination point of tanks being transported.
(c) Self-storage facility. All or part of a building used for the storage of personal goods and/or materials.
(d) Truck freight terminal/distribution center. Any premises used by a motor freight company as a carrier of goods, that is the origin or destination point of goods being transported, for the purpose of storing, transferring, loading, and unloading goods, but excluding loading and unloading of freight accessory to an otherwise permitted use on the site.
(e) Vehicle storage, commercial. Establishments primarily engaged in the assembling or standing of operable vehicles for periods of more than one day. Such use does not include the storage of damaged, dismantled, or impounded vehicles. This land use need not be enclosed.
(f) Wholesale trade or storage, general. Establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following activities: selling durable and nondurable goods to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or building trade contractors; to professional businesses; or to other wholesalers. Activities may include physically assembling, sorting, and grading goods into large lots and breaking bulk for redistribution in smaller lots; the sale at wholesale and/or storage or warehousing of toxic and/or hazardous materials; providing accessory support services primarily to other businesses (rather than to individuals). Operations with more than 25% of sales to retail customers are categorized as "retail sales" rather than as "wholesale trade" uses. This use excludes self-storage facilities.
(g) Wholesale trade or storage, light. Establishments primarily engaged in selling durable and nondurable goods to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, building trade contractors; to professional business uses; or to other wholesalers. Activities may include physically assembling, sorting, and grading goods into large lots and breaking bulk for redistribution in smaller lots in such a way as to have a minimal impact on surrounding properties, excluding the sale at wholesale and/or storage or warehousing of toxic and/or hazardous materials.
(E) Agriculture primary uses.
(1) Anhydrous ammonia storage and distribution. A facility, or group of facilities, that receives, stores, and handles anhydrous ammonia.
(2) Aquaculture. An agricultural use in which food fish, shellfish or other marine foods, aquatic plants, or aquatic animals are cultured or grown to sell them or the products they produce. Includes fish hatcheries, growing tanks or raceways; the processing, storage, packaging and distribution of shellfish and fish; and accessory uses such as feed storage and water treatment facilities.
(3) Confined feeding. A facility engaged in the confined feeding of animals as defined in I.C. 13-11-2-40.
(4) Farm. A parcel or collection of parcels with an area of at least five acres used for the primary purpose of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, or viticulture, including accessory facilities for the sale of produce, wine, and dairy products for sale, if most of the products for sale have been produced or grown by the owner of the land on which the facility is located.
(5) Food processing plants. A commercial operation that manufactures, packages, labels or stores food for human consumption and does not provide food directly to a consumer.
(6) Grain and feed mills. An establishment that produces food, including premixes, supplements, and concentrates, for animal (non-human) consumption from grain, grain byproducts, or alfalfa and other ingredients, without cooking.
(7) Plant nursery. An agricultural use in which plants are grown, cultivated, produced, or managed for the on-site or off-site sale of such plants or their products, or for their use in any other business, research, or commerce. Other customarily incidental products may be sold with the plants. Examples of plant nursery uses include: wholesale nurseries with greenhouses or garden stores; tree farms; flower farms; field nurseries; and sod farms. Plant nursery uses do not include forestry or logging uses, or the keeping of animals or livestock except where expressly permitted as an accessory use.
(8) Riding stables and academies. A commercial establishment where horses are boarded and cared for, and where instruction in riding, jumping, and showing is offered, and where horses may be hired for riding.
(9) Roadside produce stand. A structure for the display and sale of agricultural products grown on the site, with no space for customers within the structure itself.
(10) Sale barn for livestock. Establishments where the public may consign livestock for sale by auction open to public bidding or sold on a commission basis. It does not include breed or livestock associations operating subject to and in compliance with the provisions of the Future Farmer and 4-H groups, auction sales conducted in conjunction with county, state or private fairs, or auction sales conducted for a person whose livestock are sold on premises of the person.
(11) Slaughterhouse. A facility for the slaughtering and processing of animals and the refining of their byproducts.
(Ord. 2022-17, passed 7-19-2022)