(a) Uses prohibited within city. The uses listed in this section are specifically prohibited in the city.
(1) Letter “A”. Aircraft landing field; ammonia, bleaching powder, sulphuric acid or other chemical plants emitting noxious, corrosive or toxic fumes carrying beyond the limits of the premises; amusement park; asphalt refining or manufacture.
(2) Letter “B”. Blast furnace; boiler making; brewing and distilling liquors; brick, tile or ceramic insulator manufacture.
(3) Letter “C”. Carbon or lamp black manufacture; cellulose nitrate manufacture; cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture; central distributing station for oil or petroleum products; chlorine or hydrochloric, nitric or picric acid manufacture; cider mill; coal distillation including manufacture or derivation of the by-products; coal yard, coal hoist, coal pocket or coal car trestle, except where the coal is consumed on premises; coke ovens, creosote manufacture or treatment; cotton ginning and baling; cotton seed products manufacture.
(4) Letter “D”. Disinfectant or insecticide manufacture; distillation of bones; dry cleaning using flammable solvent; coin-operated dry cleaning units in a U1, U2 or U6 Use District or in any building or premises containing dwelling units located in a U3, U4 or U5 Use District.
(5) Letter “E”. Explosive or fireworks manufacture.
(6) Letter “F”. Fat rendering; ferrous metal foundry; fertilizer manufacture; fish packing, storage, wholesale cleaning or market; flour mill.
(7) Letter “G”. Gas or oil well; gas manufacture from coal or petroleum or storage thereof; glass manufacture; glue manufacture from raw materials; grain elevator.
(8) Letter “H”.
(9) Letter “I”.
(10) Letter “J”.
(11) Letter “K”.
(12) Letter “L”. Locomotive manufacture; lumber yard.
(13) Letter “M”. Manufacture of metal powder.
(14) Letter “N”. (Repealed by Ord. 7967, passed March 7, 1989)
(15) Letter “O”.
(16) Letter “P”. Paper manufacture; petroleum refining; planing or saw mill; plant, other than municipal or accessory, for the incineration or reduction of garbage, offal or dead animals; plaster manufacture; power forge; swimming pool in a U1 Use District, except a private swimming pool, all portions of which, including appurtenances, are located at least 50 feet from any property line of the lot upon which such private swimming pool is located and at least 40 feet towards the rear from any setback line of such lot. Notwithstanding the foregoing limitations, the Board of Zoning Appeals and Council may reduce such 50-foot requirement to not less than 15 feet if consents of the owners and lessees of all properties contiguous to the property upon which such pool is proposed to be constructed and consents of the owners and lessees of any other properties within 50 feet of any portion of such proposed pool, including appurtenances, are filed with the city. Such consents shall be executed and filed on forms prepared and approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(17) Letter “Q”.
(18) Letter “R”. Rail freight terminal; railroad roundhouse or shop; railroad yards; railway car manufacture; raw hides or skins storage, curing or tanning; reducing or refining nonferrous metals; refuse dump.
(19) Letter “S”. Salt works; scrap metal or junk storage; scrap paper or rag storage or baling; slaughtering of animals; smelting of copper, tin or zinc ores; soap manufacture; steel furnace blooming or rolling mill; stock yards; storage of live poultry, or poultry killing or plucking; structural metal or pipe works.
(20) Letter “T”. Tar distillation; tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture; truck freight terminal; trailer camps and trailer parking.
(21) Letter “U”.
(22) Letter “V”.
(23) Letter “W”. Wire or rod mill; wood distillation, including manufacture of charcoal, tar, turpentine and other by-products.
(24) Letter “X”.
(25) Letter “Y”.
(26) Letter “Z”.
(b) Prohibited uses. Any other use which in the determination of the Board of Zoning Appeals is unsanitary, noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odors, dust, smoke, gas or noise, or which produces vibration or is dangerous to life or property is prohibited.
(c) Uses prohibited in certain districts.
(1) The following uses are prohibited in a U1 or U2 Use District: community center building; funeral home; hotel, motel, motor court or tourist home, or similar buildings or parts thereof kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests, in which five or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests; institution for the insane or feebleminded; museum; philanthropic or eleemosynary use or penal or correctional institution; stamping, drawing, pressing, shearing or punching metal; undertaking establishment; outdoor or indoor used automobile sales facilities; indoor sales facilities for used or secondhand merchandise of any kind or sort including clothing, jewelry, tools, furniture or furnishings.
(2) The following uses are prohibited in a U1, U2 or U6 Use District: billboard, signboard or advertising sign other than as an accessory use to a business; except that political signs or posters shall be permitted for a period of 120 days prior to and ten days subsequent to any primary or regular election. In a U1 or U2 Use District such political signs or posters shall be limited as follows: such signs or posters may only be placed as window signs within an occupied residence; each such sign or poster shall not exceed four and one-half square feet in area and not more than eight such signs or posters shall be placed within any occupied residence; car washing as a principal business; drive-in restaurant; open-air lots for the sale of materials, supplies or equipment (new or used); pawn shop; outdoor or indoor new or used trailer sales facilities; outdoor sales facilities for used or second hand merchandise of any kind or sort including clothing, jewelry, tools, furniture or furnishings; veterinary hospital; water supply reservoir or tower.
(Ord. 4761, passed 11-17-1953; Ord. 5104, passed 4-8-1958; Ord. 5379, passed 2-27-1962; Ord. 5547, passed 4-21-1964; Ord. 5805, passed 4-1-1967; Ord. 7832, passed 7-15-1986) Penalty, see § 101.99