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See §§ 82-426 et seq., schedule of regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use and providing minimum yard setback requirements.
(1993 Code, § 82-340) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
§§ 82-341 -- 82-355 RESERVED.
ARTICLE XVII. I-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
(A) The I-1 Light Industrial Districts are designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses and industrial operations whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the District and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material. It is further intended that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form, to be used in an industrial operation at another location, not be permitted.
(B) The general goals of this use District include, among others, the following specific purposes:
(1) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the municipality's expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses;
(2) To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development;
(3) To promote manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation, and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor and other objectionable influences;
(4) To protect the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well considered plan. To protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other objectionable influences.
(1993 Code, § 82-356) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
In a Light Industrial District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for 1 or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
(1) Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building;
(2) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding, or processing shall be totally obscured by a wall on those sides abutting R-1 through R-2, R-T, RM-1, RM-2, MH, OS-1, B-1, B-2, B-3, and CBD Districts and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare except as otherwise provided in § 82-467. In I-1 Districts, the extent of such a wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such a wall shall not be less than 4 feet 6 inches in height and may, depending upon land usage, be required to be 8 feet in height, and shall be subject further to the requirements of §§ 82-451 et seq., general provisions. A chainlink fence, with intense evergreen shrub planting, shall be considered an obscuring wall. The height shall be determined in the same manner as the wall height as set forth in this subsection.
(a) Warehousing, mini storage facilities and wholesale establishments, and trucking facilities.
(b) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as, but not limited to, bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery; tool, die, gauge, and machine shops.
(c) The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood and yarns.
(d) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(e) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other molded rubber products.
(f) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs.
(g) Laboratories: experimental, film or testing.
(h) Manufacture and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.
(i) Central dry cleaning plants or laundries, provided that such plants shall not deal directly with consumers at retail.
(j) All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.
(3) Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards; public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations; water supply and sewage disposal plants; water and gas tank holders; railroad transfer and storage tracks; railroad rights-of-way; freight terminals;
(4) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor's equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In any I-1 District the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than 5 feet in height, and may, depending on land usage, be required to be 8 feet in height. A chainlink type fence, with dense evergreen shrubbery inside of the fence, shall be considered to be an obscuring fence.
(5) Commercial kennels.
(6) Greenhouses.
(7) Trade or industrial schools.
(8) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character than the uses listed in this section.
(9) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses listed in this section.
(1993 Code, § 82-357) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992; Ord. passed 1-13-2003(2))
The following uses may be permitted in a Light Industrial District upon the granting of a permit for such use by the Planning Commission subject to the conditions imposed in this section for each use and subject further to such other conditions which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, are necessary to provide adequate protection to the neighborhood and to abutting properties and subject further to a public hearing in accord with § 82-34(C).
(1) Auto engine and body repair shops when completely enclosed in a building and provided any outdoor storage is completely obscured from public view.
(2) Lumber and planing mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the District so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the I-1 District.
(3) Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances.
(4) Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities, such as, but not limited to, lumber yard, building materials outlet, upholsterer, cabinet maker, outdoor sales of boats, house trailers, automobile garages, or agricultural implements, or serve convenience needs of the Industrial District, such as, but not limited to, eating and drinking establishments, bank, savings and loan association, credit union, automobile service station, motel or bowling alley, trade or industrial school or industrial clinic.
(5) Other uses of a similar character to the uses listed in this section.
(1993 Code, § 82-358) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
See §§ 82-426 et seq., schedule of regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use and the minimum yard setback requirements.
(1993 Code, § 82-359) (Ord. passed 10-12-1992)
§§ 82-360 -- 82-375 RESERVED.
ARTICLE XVIII. I-2 GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
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