The Industrial Districts include the Multi-Use (M-U) District, the Light Industrial (I-1) District and the Heavy Industrial (I-2) District. The regulations set forth in this Chapter are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide convenient and sufficient zoning districts for industrial activities and for the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services in order to serve and promote the economic development of the community.
(b) To establish performance standards, parking specifications and yard regulations to ensure that industrial development is compatible with adjacent uses.
(c) To protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to industrial uses by restricting the types of uses, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create congestion, noise or other objectionable influences beyond the district boundaries and by separating and insulating residential districts from the most intense industrial activities.
(d) To carry out the following specific purposes:
(1) To provide M-U Multi-Use Districts in appropriate and convenient locations for general commercial establishments, wholesale and distribution establishments, and limited types of assembly and production establishments that do not cause conditions that would be objectionable to neighboring properties. All activities are to be conducted within enclosed buildings, except for limited uses including automobile sales, farm implement sales and outdoor storage as a conditional use.
(2) To provide I-1 Light Industrial Districts which accommodate wholesale, warehouse, assembly, processing and other limited industrial uses, including storage and related activities, conducted entirely within enclosed buildings, that operate with a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollution, fire and safety hazard or any potentially nuisance characteristic. The I-1 District is designed to encourage the development of industrial parks by including reduced standards for lots that are part of an industrial park development and which have access onto a new internal street.
(3) To provide I-2 Heavy Industrial Districts for certain intensive industrial establishments that utilize products, materials and/or processes which may involve dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable characteristics, but the impacts of which are reduced through the use of greater setback requirements so that such uses do not jeopardize the health, safety and general welfare of the surrounding neighborhoods. Uses in the I-2 Districts typically generate outdoor activities and outdoor storage in association with permitted principal uses.