(a) Intent. U-5C Industrial/Service Districts and regulations are established to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) To provide, in appropriate and convenient districts, for the development of small industrial and service uses in order to promote employment and economic viability and strengthen the economy of the community.
(2) To promote the most desirable mix of land uses in accordance with plans recommended by the City.
(3) To protect adjacent residential districts by restricting the types of manufacturing and by establishing setback, buffering and landscaping standards.
(4) To protect and enhance the visual quality of the district and the entire community by establishing landscaping and screening standards from the public right of way.
(b) Regulations. Buildings and land shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered or maintained only for uses specifically permitted in a U-5C Industrial/Service District.
The main buildings or main uses permitted shall be the only buildings and uses permitted by right. Accessory buildings or uses as set forth shall be permitted by right. Accessory buildings or uses as set forth shall be permitted by right, provided such buildings or uses are planned and developed integrally, clearly incidental and located on the same building lot as the main building or use.
(c) Permitted Uses. Buildings and land shall be used, and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered or maintained, in whole or in part, in a U-5C Industrial/ Service District only for the uses set forth in the following schedule and regulations:
(1) Main buildings and uses permitted.
A. Veterinary hospitals.
B. Any industrial or manufacturing uses, except the following, which are prohibited:
1. Reduction of garbage, refuse, offal or dead animals
2. The manufacture or storage of fireworks or explosives
3. Gypsum, cement, lime or plaster of Paris manufacture
4. Acid manufacture, including hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric, sulphurous, hydrofluoric or phosphoric acid
5. Smelting of iron, copper, tin or zinc ores
6. Distillation of bones, fat rendering or glue manufacture
7. No open or unroofed yard for the storage of secondhand lumber or other used building material, junk, paper, rags or other salvage articles, or the wrecking or dismantling of motor vehicles, may be established within 125 feet of a public thoroughfare, any other public land or any residence district
8. Any type of kiln plant for the manufacture of bricks and/or cement blocks, cement manufacturing, cement or concrete mixing plants, either portable or permanent, asphalt manufacturing and/or asphalt mixing plant
9. Bronze powder manufacture
10. Slaughterhouses or stock yards
11. Tile or terra cotta manufacture
12. Carbon, coke or lamp black manufacture
13. Celluloid manufacture or storage
14. Clay products manufacture
15. Creosote manufacture or treatment plant
16. Dye stuff manufacture
17. Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacture
18. Fertilizer manufacture
19. Gas manufacture or storage or oil refineries
20. Match manufacture
21. Mineral insulation manufacture
22. Mining
23. Nitrating of cotton or other cellulose material
24. Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture or oil wells
25. Paint, shellac, turpentine, lacquer or varnish manufacture
26. Potash manufacture
27. Print ink manufacture
28. Rayon manufacture
29. Rock and slag crushing
30. Rubber, caoutchouc or guta percha manufacture
31. Soap, tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining
32. Soda ash, caustic soda or washing compound manufacture
33. Stone quarry, gravel and sand pit
34. Storage of volatile oil or gasoline in excess of 25,000 gallons
35. Tanneries
36. Tanning, curing or storage of raw hides or skins
37. Tar distillation or manufacture
38. Tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture
39. Fish houses, live poultry sales or poultry killing where the main or principal business is the killing of poultry
40. Sewage disposal plants
41. Crematories
42. Any use involving the handling, transferring, treating or recycling, in any manner whatsoever, of any hazardous waste. This section shall not apply to any medical facility or business which handles, transfers, treats or recycles hazardous waste produced from its own operations. For purposes of this subsection, the term hazardous waste shall include any medical waste, toxic materials and/or waste, contamined soil and any other materials and/or waste which may present any signficant threat to human or environmental health or safety.
43. Any other trade, industry or use which the Planning Commission finds will be injurious, hazardous, noxious or offensive to an extent equal to or greater than any of the enterprises enumerated in this subsection.
C. Offices: professional, medical, executive, administrative and sales
D. Research and development laboratories
E. Business and automotive services
F. Governmentally owned and/or operated buildings and facilities
G. Hotels and motels
H. Restaurants
I. Because certain uses in the Class U-5C Industrial/Service District have the potential to cause unique and substantial adverse impacts on the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare in the City beyond the property upon which the use is conducted, the following uses (excluding those which have been prohibited under paragraph (c)(1)B. hereof) described in the following subsections shall not be permitted as of right, but solely pursuant to the conditional use permitting and site plan approval requirements set forth in Sections 1121.34 to 1121.36, inclusive:
1. Any use having a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) subsection number of 221, 324, 325, 331, 481, 482, 484, 485, 486, 492, 493 or 562, as designated in the 1997 North American Industry Classification System Manual prepared by the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
2. Any use having a North American Industry Classification System industry group number, a five-digit number or six-digit number of 1133, 3122, 3211, 3219, 3221, 332992, 332993, 332994, 332995 or 48821, as designated in such Manual; and
3. Any use utilizing asbestos in the production process or final product.
J. The following uses shall be prohibited:
1. No open or unroofed yard for the storage of lumber, other than new building material.
2. Any type of establishment defined as "adult entertainment" in Section 1121.021.
(2) Similar main use permitted. Any other use not listed above may be permitted if determined as similar by the Planning Commission.
(3) Accessory uses permitted. Accessory uses which are incidential to the main use shall be permitted, such as:
A. Off-street surface and garage parking and loading facilities.
B. Fully enclosed or screened maintenance and storage facilities.
C. Signs, e.g. tenant identification, real estate and development.
D. Landscaping, lighting and screening.
(d) Performance Standards. No noise, odor, vibration, smoke, air pollution, liquid or solid waste, bio-hazards, heat, glare, dust, storwater runoff or other such adverse influences shall be permitted, except as permitted by Federal, State, County or local standards.
(e) Lot Area and Width Regulations.
(1) The minimum lot width at the building line shall be at least 100 feet.
(2) The minimum lot area shall be one-half acre.
(f) Lot Coverage Regulations. The land occupied by the sum of the main (and accessory) buildings shall not exceed fifty percent of the lot.
(g) Yard Regulations.
(1) Front yards. All buildings shall be set back at least 30 feet from the existing or planned right-of-way of public streets. No loading, maintenance or storage facility shall be located within the front yard.
(2) Side yards. Each lot shall maintain side yards of at least ten feet.
(3) Side yards on corner lots. All buildings located on a corner lot shall have a yard facing upon the side street of at least 25 feet.
(4) Rear yards. All buildings shall maintain a rear yard of not less than 10% of the average depth of the lot. Where a rear lot line is adjacent to a zoned residential district, the rear yard shall be not less than 40 feet.
(h) Height Regulations. No building shall be erected to a height in excess of four stories or in excess of fifty feet.
(i) Off-Street Parking and Loading Facilities. All off-street parking and loading facilities in the U-5C Industrial/Service District shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 1125. In addition, parking lots shall observe the following setbacks:
(1) Front setback. All parking areas shall not be developed within ten feet from the existing or planned right-of-way of public streets.
(2) Side setback. Parking areas shall not be developed within six feet from a side lot line. Parking areas shall be at least 18 feet from side lot lines which adjoin a zoned residential district.
(3) Side yards on corner lots. Parking shall be set back at least ten feet from the right-of-way of the side street.
(4) Rear setbacks. Parking areas shall not be developed within six feet from the rear lot line. Parking areas shall be at least 18 feet from a rear lot line which adjoins a zoned residential district.
(j) Landscaping and Screening.
(1) Street buffer strips. A street buffer strip shall be provided and maintained on each developed property in a location between the sidewalk (where one exists or is proposed) and the curb or pavement edge of an adjacent public road. The entire area between the sidewalk and the curb shall be landscaped with grass and trees or an equivalent landscaping.
(3) Screening from the public right of way. All exterior maintenance, service, storage areas, loading docks, ground-mounted mechanical and utility equipment and disposal facilities shall be screened from direct view from the public right of way. Screening may be achieved by architecturally compatible fencing or walls or through the use of landscaping material. Fencing and walls used to meet screening requirements shall display a finished face toward the adjacent street. Barbed wire shall not be permitted atop fencing.
(4) Perimeter parking buffer strips. A minimum grass-covered buffer strip of six feet in width with a six-inch high concrete curbing is required from the sidewalk (where one exists or is proposed) to any parking area of driveway aisle that is located in a required yard abutting a public road. In addition to grass cover, the perimeter parking buffer strip shall contain a continuous line of evergreen shrubs planted at intervals of no more than five feet on center at an initial height of at least two feet, and a continuous row of trees spaced at intervals of no more than thirty feet on center, at an initial height of at least eight feet. Such a tree or shrub that covers three feet in height shall be so located within the perimeter parking strip so as not to obstruct proper sight distance at intersecting parking aisles or where walkways intersect with vehicular driveway aisles.
(5) Outdoor sales lots. A minimum grass-covered buffer strip of six feet in width with a six inch high concrete curbing is required from the sidewalk to any outdoor display area that is located in a required yard abutting a public road. Outdoor display areas shall be surfaced with asphalt or concrete and shall be in accordance with engineering specifications and ordinances of the City. In addition to grass cover, the buffer strip shall contain a continuous row of trees spaced at intervals of no more than thirty feet on center at an initial height of at least eight feet.
(k) Signs. All sign regulations in the U-5C Industrial/Service District shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 1123.
(l) Lighting. Lighting shall be constructed and arranged so as to prevent the direct emission of light upon adjoining lots or the public right of way.
(m) Plan Review and Approval. A site plan, landscape plan and general building plans shall conform to the requirements of Section 1121.36(b).
(Ord. 8577-1999. Passed 8-24-99; Ord. 9360-2007. Passed 2-21-07.)