(A) Purpose.
(1) To provide lands for use by heavy or intense industries.
(2) To provide lands for manufacturing, assembling, and fabricating activities, including large scale or specialized operations whose external effects will be felt to some degree by surrounding districts.
(3) To provide lands for certain uses with established functions in the economy, but having a well-known nuisance potential through the use of a special use permit.
(B) Policy.
(1) To achieve the purpose of the I-2 Intensive Industrial District and the purpose of this section, it shall be the policy of the village.
(2) To provide lands to be used for a full range of industrial uses and provide and protect the tax base and thereby the tax revenue to the village and to provide employment for the public benefit.
(3) To govern the location, intensity, and method of development of industrial areas of the village and grouping together of industries that are compatible to one another and that are not objectionable to the community as a whole.
(4) To preserve lands for industrial and allied uses and prohibit the intrusion of residential and other non-compatible uses into the industrial area.
(C) Uses permitted. No land shall be used or occupied and no buildings, structures, or premise shall be erected, altered, enlarged, occupied, or used, except as otherwise provided in this chapter for other than one or more of the following specified uses:
(1) Industrial type uses:
(a) All manufacturing uses permitted in the I-1 District.
(b) Acid manufacturing.
(c) Cement block manufacturing.
(d) Chemicals manufacturing and compounding.
(e) Drop forge.
(f) Foundry.
(g) Incinerator.
(h) Industrial farms and/or feed yards, farming, crop and tree farming, truck farming, horticulture, forestry, gardening, dairy farming, stock raising, domestic animals and poultry breeding and raising, together with the operation of any machinery or vehicles incidental to the above uses.
(i) Meatpacking, but not stockyards or slaughter houses.
(j) Petroleum, natural gas or flammable or combustible products, and production, fractionation, extraction, refining, and storage.
(k) Power plant.
(l) Railroad yard, including switching, storage, product transfer and maintenance facilities.
(m) Sawmill.
(n) Stamping mills.
(o) Steel and aluminum production and fabrication.
(p) Vocational schools.
(q) Product transfer and packaging.
(2) Wholesale and warehouse uses:
(a) Wholesale and warehouse uses permitted in the I-1 District.
(b) Storage yard for building supplies and equipment.
(c) Concrete products storage.
(3) Commercial uses:
(a) Service retail businesses permitted in the I-1 District.
(b) Business establishments:
1. Business establishments permitted in the I-1 District.
2. Establishments manufacturing monuments and tombstones.
3. Exterminators.
4. Truck terminal, equipment repair, maintenance and cleaning facilities.
5. Fuel and coal company.
6. Sign contractor.
(c) Sexually oriented businesses, as defined in Chapter 115, provided that any such business complies with the requirements relating to sexually oriented businesses set forth in Chapter 115.
(4) Public, quasi-public, and governmental buildings and facilities permitted in the I-1 District.
(5) Industrial firms involved in the fabrication, processing, production, compounding and/or manufacturing of materials, goods or products.
(6) Firms involved in the servicing, packaging, cleaning, repair or storage of materials, goods or products.
(7) Laboratories and research firms involved in the research, experimentation or testing or materials, goods or products.
(D) Special uses permitted.
(1) Special uses permitted in the I-1 District.
(2) Similar and compatible uses to those allowed as “permitted uses” in this district.
(3) Automotive and scrap salvage yard, including wrecking and dismantling, provided all operations are conducted within an area enclosed on all sides with an acceptable solid wall or fence not less than eight feet high so that such operation is not visible from the nearest street or adjacent property. Such operation shall be properly maintained and kept in acceptable appearance.
(4) Stockyards or slaughter houses.
(5) All pollution control facilities including, but not limited to, landfill, injection, incineration and/or compaction operations, used in the disposal, recycling, storage and/or transfer of wastes, classified as “hazardous, special wastes,” by appropriate state and/or federal governmental agencies.
(6) Landfills.
(7) Mining and/or the extraction of minerals, sand, gravel, topsoil or other aggregates, including equipment, buildings or structures for screening, crushing, mixing, washing, or storage, provided that:
(a) No open pit or shaft is less than 200 feet from any public road or 50 feet from any side and rear property line.
(b) All buildings or structures are located not less than 200 feet from any property line.
(c) The borders of the property fenced with a fence or wall at least six feet in height shall have a six foot high earthen berm and a six foot high chain link fence either in front of or behind the berm.
(d) A plan of development of the reclamation of the land is provided as part of the application for special use.
(e) The use of blasting or other uses of explosives are permitted, provided it conforms to the following standards:
1. The use, handling, and detonation of explosives (sometimes referred to as “blasting”) in connection with said quarrying operations shall be under the direct supervision of persons having the requisite experience and knowledge to conduct such operations with safety. All such persons are hereafter required to be licensed by any federal agency, by the State of Illinois, or Village of Channahon, such persons shall meet the licensing requirements and obtain such license.
2. The storage of explosives shall be in accordance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations and shall be stored in magazines, buildings, or structures, which shall meet the safety requirements of such laws an regulations.
3. Blasting procedures shall be in accordance with modern techniques, generally accepted in the quarrying industry, whereby a shot shall consist of a series of drill holes containing quantities of explosives fired or detonated in sequence of multiple delays at intervals of milliseconds, so as to counteract and reduce the detonation (sometimes referred to as “short-period delay blasting”). Blasting procedures shall be designed, on the basis of maximum charge per delay (that is, quantity of explosives in pounds per detonation) and distances in feet, so that the maximum ground vibration intensity shall not exceed 0.5 inches per second of ground particle velocity resulting from any shot or blast measured by any one of the three mutually perpendicular planes of ground motion as recorded at the nearest existing building.
4. Blasting procedures shall be subject to and comply with the applicable lawful requirements of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals, Mine Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA) of the United States Department of the Interior, and any governmental agency having jurisdiction thereof.
5. Blasting procedures shall be in conformity with approved safety regulations, customs, and practices generally accepted in the quarrying industry and the safety regulations of governmental agencies having jurisdiction thereof.
6. Compliance with the provisions of these regulations governing blasting procedures and quarrying operations shall be subject to review and inspection from time-to-time by authorized Village officials, upon reasonable prior notice and during reasonable business hours.
7. The actual detonation of any blast will be restricted to the local time period between 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday of each week. No blasting shall take place on Sunday or on the following legal holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
(8) Concrete and asphalt mixing.
(9) Rendering plants.
(10) Dynamite storage.
(11) Pay day loan store.
(E) Temporary uses permitted. Temporary permit uses permitted in the 1-1 District.
(F) Accessory uses. Buildings, or other structures and devices customarily incidental to and commonly associated with a permitted use or special use may be permitted, provided they are operated and maintained under the same ownership, on the same parcel, and do not include structures or features inconsistent with the permitted use or special use.
(G) Prohibited uses. All uses not expressly authorized as permitted uses, special uses, temporary use or accessory uses in this chapter.
(H) Site and structure requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area. A minimum ground area of not less than five acres shall be designated, provided, and continuously maintained for each lot used for a permitted or special use.
(2) Minimum lot width. A minimum lot width of 300 feet shall be provided for each lot used for a permitted or special use.
(3) Front Yard. All structures shall be set back at least 100 feet from the front lot line on dedicated roads and 150 feet from the center line on non-dedicated roads.
(4) Side yard. All structures shall be set in from the side lot line a distance of not less than 20 feet on either side, with the sum of the two sides not less than 50 feet.
(5) Rear yard. All structures shall be set in a distance of not less than 40 feet from the rear lot line.
(6) Maximum height. No structure shall exceed 35 feet in height when within 200 feet of any residential district. Beyond 200 feet from a residential district, one additional foot in height may be added for each of the one foot of horizontal distance beyond 200 feet.
(7) Floor area ratio. Not to exceed 1.5.
(8) Maximum lot coverage. Not more than 70% of the lot area may be occupied by buildings and structures, including accessory buildings.
(I) Special provisions.
(1) Parking requirements. In accordance with the applicable regulations set forth in § 156.150.
(2) Sign requirements. In accordance with the applicable regulations set forth in § 156.160.
(3) IEPA Regulations Adopted by Reference. The standards, specifications, and regulations of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency are hereby incorporated into this section and made a part thereof by this reference. Such standards, specifications, and regulations shall include those as required by the following:
(a) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Public Water Supplies;
(b) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Livestock Waste Regulations;
(c) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Solid Waste.
(d) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Air Pollution Regulations;
(e) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Noise Pollution Control Regulations;
(f) Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Water Pollution;
(g) State of Illinois; the Environmental Protection Act; and Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations; Mine Waste Regulations.
(4) Outdoor storage. The outdoor storage of materials, products, and goods is permitted if completely screened from adjacent properties and the public right-of-way. Outdoor storage of uncontained bulk materials is prohibited, except as a special use.
(Ord. 1020, passed 12-21-98; Am. Ord. 1245, passed 7-15-02; Am. Ord. 1451, passed 12-18-06; Am. Ord. 1570, passed 1-19-09)