11-13-1: PURPOSE AND APPLICATION:
   A.   The purposes of the industrial districts (I) are to achieve the following:
      1.   To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern light and heavy industrial plants, operations, activities and related businesses and activities;
      2.   To protect areas appropriate for industrial use from intrusion by inharmonious uses;
      3.   To expand job creating and revenue generating activities by increasing the overall amount of industrial development in the city;
      4.   To protect residential and commercial properties and to protect nuisance free nonhazardous industrial uses from noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration, explosion, radiation and other hazardous and objectionable influences incidental to certain industrial uses. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)