(A) General description. The purpose of the I-2 Heavy Industrial District is to provide a location for industries, which may, by their nature, create nuisances. The intent is to preserve this land especially for industry in locations with access to major streets as designated on the thoroughfare plan, as well as locations generally accessible to railroad transportation. Because of the nuisances or other objectionable influences that may be created in this district, it is necessary to provide a buffer or setback strip between this district and other zoning districts, except I-1.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-1)
(B) Standards. Any use constructed, established, altered or enlarged in the I-2 Heavy Industrial District after the effective date of this chapter shall be so operated as to comply with the following standards. No use already established on the effective date of this chapter shall be so altered or modified as to conflict with, or further conflict with, the applicable standards established hereinafter for the I-2 Heavy Industrial District.
(1) Residential. No building shall be used for residential purposes; except that, a watchman may reside on the premises.
(2) Retail sales or services. No retail sales or services shall be permitted, except as incidental to or accessory to a permitted use.
(3) Manufacture of goods. No manufacture or assembly of goods shall be conducted outside a building unless the nearest point of said activity is more than 200 feet from the boundary of any use district.
(4) Exterior lighting. Exterior lighting fixtures shall be shaded wherever necessary to avoid casting direct light upon property located in any residence district.
(5) Noise; offensive emissions. All manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing and testing of goods, wares, and merchandise shall be carried on in such a manner as not to be injurious or offensive by reason of the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious matter, odorous, glare or heat, fire or explosive hazards.
(6) Detonation. No activities involving storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-2)
(C) Uses permitted.
(1) Principal uses. All buildings or uses hereafter established or enlarged shall comply with the following conditions or restrictions:
(a) Automobile wrecking and junkyards; provided, they are enclosed throughout the entire perimeter by a solid fence not less than eight feet in height;
(b) Blacksmiths, tinsmiths and sheet metal shops;
(c) Bottling works;
(d) Bulk fuel sales and storage;
(e) Canning or preserving factories;
(f) Coal storage plants;
(g) Ice cream production and distribution;
(h) Machine shops;
(i) Machinery rental, sales and service;
(j) Manufacturing, fabricating, assembling, repairing, storing and cleaning, servicing or testing, any of the following materials, goods or merchandise;
(k) Apparel;
(l) Beverages (non-alcoholic), processing and bottling;
(m) Building materials specialties;
(n) Clothing;
(o) Compounding and packaging of chemicals;
(p) Cosmetics and toiletries;
(q) Dairy products;
(r) Drugs and pharmaceutical products;
(s) Electrical and acoustic products and components;
(t) Food products (except fish, sauerkraut, vinegar and yeast);
(u) Furniture;
(v) Glass products;
(w) Ice, dry and natural;
(x) Jewelry;
(y) Medical laboratory supplies, equipment and specialties;
(z) Metal products and utensils;
(aa) Musical instruments;
(bb) Optical goods;
(cc) Paper products, including boxes and containers;
(dd) Radio, phonograph recorder and television sets and parts;
(ee) Textiles;
(ff) Toys and children’s vehicles;
(gg) Trailers and carts;
(hh) Wood products, including wooden boxes and containers;
(ii) Meat and vegetable products (processing of), including the slaughter of animals;
(jj) Milk, bottling and distribution;
(kk) Monumental stone cutting;
(ll) Motor freight terminals;
(mm) Pattern shops;
(nn) Printing plants;
(oo) Railroad yards and switching areas, including lodging and sleeping facilities for transient railroad labor;
(pp) Sign painting;
(qq) Soldering and welding shops; and
(rr) Spray painting and mixing.
(2) I-1 District uses. Any use permitted in the I-1 Light Industrial District shall be permitted in this district.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-3)
(D) Area regulations.
(1) Minimum area. There are no requirements for minimum lot area in the Heavy Industrial District I-2.
(2) Yard requirements. Yard requirements in the I-2 District are the same setbacks as required for the I-1 Light Industrial District.
(3) Coverage. Buildings shall not cover more than 50% of the site on which the use is located.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-4)
(E) Off-street parking. Off-street parking shall be provided, as required in § 153.080 of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-5)
(F) Sewer service. No structure or use in the I-2 District shall be erected, commenced or allowed to continue, which does not have a connection to the public sewerage system unless and until the county’s Public Health Officer certifies that a septic tank or any substitute disposal system can be installed and operated effectively. As a basis for making his or her decision, said Health Officer may require such percolation tests as he or she deems necessary. Such tests shall be made at the expense of the landowner.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-6)
(G) Signs and billboards. In the I-2 District, the control of signs and billboards is the same as that in § 153.056(G) of this chapter for the C-1 District.
(Prior Code, § 10-9B-7)
(Ord. 2009-3, passed 5-15-2009)