(A) Purpose.
(1) The I1 Restricted Industrial District is intended to provide an environment suitable for industrial activities that do not create appreciable nuisances or hazards, or that require a pleasant hazard and nuisance free environment.
(2) Uses allowed in the I1 District are subject to the following conditions:
(a) Dwelling units and lodging rooms other than watchperson's quarters, are not permitted.
(b) All business, servicing, or processing, except for off-street parking and off-street loading shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, unless otherwise indicated hereinafter.
(c) All storage, except for motor vehicles in operable condition, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than six feet nor more than eight feet in height. No stored materials shall be visible above the fence.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the I1 District:
(1) Bakeries.
(2) Banks.
(3) Bedding manufacturing.
(4) Boot and shoe manufacturing.
(5) Carpet manufacturing.
(6) Cloth products manufacturing.
(7) Commercial truck parking lots.
(8) Offices and shops of contractors, architects and engineers.
(9) Living quarters for watchperson and their families, located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.
(10) Electronic and scientific precision instruments manufacturing.
(11) Fur processing.
(12) Laboratories; research and testing.
(13) Laundries.
(14) Light machinery production; appliance, business machines, and the like.
(15) Lithographing.
(16) Mail order houses.
(17) Medical and dental clinics.
(18) Musical instruments manufacture.
(19) Offices, headquarters.
(20) Orthopedic and medical appliance manufacture.
(21) Parking lots, other than accessory, and subject to the provisions of §§ 156.110 et seq.
(22) Pottery and ceramics manufacture.
(23) Printing and publishing establishments.
(24) Public utility and service uses.
(25) Restaurants.
(26) Rope, cord and twine manufacture.
(27) Sporting goods manufacture.
(28) Trade schools.
(29) Warehousing, storage and distribution facilities.
(30) Wearing apparel manufacture.
(31) Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same lot as the principal use.
(C) Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be allowed in the I1 District, subject to the provisions of § 156.160.
(1) Building material sales and storage.
(2) Cartage and express facilities.
(3) Equipment and storage yards for contractors, architects and engineers.
(4) Cosmetics production.
(5) Dairy products processing or manufacture.
(6) Food manufacture, packaging and processing.
(7) Glass products production.
(8) Paper products manufacture.
(9) Parks and playgrounds.
(10) Planned developments, industrial.
(11) Recreation buildings or community centers.
(12) Soap manufacture.
(13) Stadiums, auditoriums and arenas; open or enclosed.
(14) Woodworking and wood products manufacture.
(15) Other manufacturing, processing, storage or commercial uses determined by the Plan Commission to be of the same general character as the uses permitted in division (B) of this section and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, toxic or noxious matter or glare or heat.
(16) Building height in excess of 45 feet.
(17) Accessory uses, incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the principal use.
(D) Lot requirements. None, except for industrial planned developments which shall provide at least four acres of lot area.
(E) Yard requirements.
(1) Front yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a front yard of not less than 30 feet in depth along every front lot line.
(2) Interior side yards. In the I1 District, there shall be provided an interior side yard of not less than 15 feet in depth along each interior side lot line.
(3) Corner side yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a side yard of not less than 30 feet in depth in every instance where the side property line is adjacent to a public street.
(4) Rear yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a rear yard of not less than 15 feet in depth along each rear lot line, except where the rear lot line coincides with a railroad right-of-way line, in which case the rear yard may be reduced to 3 feet.
(5) Transitional yards. Where a side or rear lot line in an I1 District coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residence or business district, a yard shall be provided along such side or rear lot line not less than 45 feet in depth and shall contain landscaping and planting so designed and/or planted as to be 25% or more opaque when viewed horizontally between 2 feet and 8 feet above average ground level. Where industrial lots front on a street that constitutes the boundary line between industrial and residence districts or between industrial and business districts, all such lots shall provide a front yard of not less than 45 feet in depth. Parking shall not be allowed in such transitional front yard.
(F) Building height limitations. In the I1 District, no building or structure height shall exceed three stories or 45 feet, unless specifically authorized by conditional use permit.
(`95 Code, § 156.071) (Ord. 83-11, passed 9- -83; Am. Ord. 17-25, passed 9-20-17; Am. Ord. 22-31, passed 10-19-22)