(A) Description of district. The I-3 Heavy Industrial District is intended to be located in areas so that its permitted and special uses are conducted in such a manner so as not to be detrimental to the rest of the community by reason of their noise, vibration, smoke, dust, toxic or noxious materials, odor, fire, explosive hazards, glare or heat that may be incidental to their operations. Further development of residences is prohibited in this district to keep residential uses from absorbing any adverse effects of the industries and to conserve the supply of industrial land for industrial use.
(B) Uses permitted. No land shall be used or occupied and no building, structure or premises shall be erected, altered, enlarged, occupied or used, except as otherwise provided for in this chapter, for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1) Any use permitted in the I-2 Light Industrial District;
(2) Accessory uses;
(3) Any use whose primary purpose includes the heavy manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, disassembly, processing, storage or treatment of goods and services, including but not limited to:
(a) Asphalt products;
(b) Concrete and cement products;
(c) Construction equipment;
(d) Motor vehicles; and
(e) Paints, inks.
(4) Manufacturing, compounding, processing and storage of flammable liquids, gases, chemicals, acids, fertilizers;
(5) Public and private utility-type uses and governmental service uses;
(6) Railroad yards, including switching, storage, loading, unloading and maintenance facilities;
(7) Recycling centers;
(8) Synthetic natural gas plants;
(9) Petroleum production, refining and storage; and
(10) Power plants.
(C) Special land uses permitted. The following uses shall be permitted only if specifically authorized by the Village Board:
(1) Car washes;
(2) Drive-in banking facilities;
(3) Dwelling unit (one only) when used by the caretakers and their families, who own or are employed in the allowable commercial or industrial use of the premises, and which may be located on the ground floor;
(4) Foundries, forges and smelters;
(5) Mining operations;
(6) Junkyards, salvage yards and automobile graveyards;
(7) Planned unit developments;
(8) Sanitary landfills, solid waste transfer stations, composting, energy reclamation facilities, incinerators and similar uses, but excluding hazardous or radioactive waste disposal;
(9) Steel mills;
(10) Those adult uses more particularly described and set forth in Chapter 111 of this Code of Ordinances, regulating adult related businesses within the village, which shall be subject to the following conditions:
(a) No person shall operate or cause to be operated an adult use within 1,000 feet of the property boundary of a preexisting:
1. Public or private elementary or secondary school;
2. Licensed day care center;
3. Cemetery;
4. Public park;
5. Public housing;
6. Municipal or other public buildings;
7. Place of religious worship;
8. Any district that permits residential dwellings; or
9. Adult use; and
(11) Industrial warehouse and distribution facilities, including container storage stacking of up to five containers.
(b) Those conditions and requirements described and set forth in Chapter 111, regulating adult related businesses within the village, and as amended.
(D) Temporary uses permitted. Upon application to and issuance by the Building Commissioner or a permit therefor, the following uses may be operated as temporary uses: temporary permit uses in the I-1 and I-2 District.
(E) Accessory buildings and uses permitted.
(1) 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 or control, on the same or on an immediately adjacent parcel, which may be separated by either public or private roadways, and does not include structures or features inconsistent with the permitted use or special use.
(2) Those uses are subject to supplementary regulations outlined in § 162.089 below.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Zoning Ordinance to the contrary, including without limitation division (D) above in the I-3 Heavy Industrial District:
(a) Accessory buildings, structures or uses may occupy more than 10% of the area on which the main building is situated, and may be higher than the principal building; and
(b) Temporary trailers, buildings or yards for construction administration, materials and equipment, both incidental and necessary for construction in the I-3 Zoning District, shall be considered permitted accessory buildings and uses which do not require a temporary use permit and which are not subject to an express limited duration.
(F) Density and dimensional requirements.
(1) Minimum lot area. A minimum lot area of 15 acres shall be provided for each lot used for a permitted or special use, except for public and private utility-type and governmental service uses, which may have a minimum lot area of not less than five acres, unless a smaller area is deemed reasonable and appropriate by the Village Board.
(2) Minimum lot width. A minimum lot width of 100 feet shall be provided for each lot used for a permitted or special use.
(3) Building setback requirements.
(a) Front yard. No principal building shall be allowed within 40 feet of any front lot line or street right-of-way line.
(b) Side yard. No principal building shall be allowed within ten feet of any side lot line.
(c) Rear yard. No principal building shall be allowed within ten feet of any rear lot line.
(d) Exception. Building setback requirements described above for side and rear yards adjacent to a railroad or a railroad siding shall not be applicable.
(e) Adjacency to a residential district. Where a side yard or rear yard in this district abuts a residential zoning district, no principal building shall be allowed within 100 feet of the residential lot line.
(4) Maximum site coverage. Not more than 70% of the lot area may be occupied by buildings and structures, including accessory buildings.
(5) Building height limitations. No building shall exceed four stories or 45 feet in height. This height may be increased to a maximum of 100 feet as long as all yard setbacks are increased by a ratio of one foot for every two feet, or portion thereof, of increased building height over 45 feet, provided that no front yard setback exceeds 150 feet and no side or rear yard exceeds 75 feet. Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator head houses, monuments, stage towers or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers and spires, church steeples, power lines, power poles or necessary equipment and mechanical appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level are not subject to the height limitations herein prescribed.
(6) Maximum principal buildings on a lot. Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter to the contrary, more than one principal building may be located on a zoning lot in an I-3 Heavy Industrial District.
(G) Landscaping and screening requirements.
(1) When, at the time of initial construction, an I-3 industrial use is located adjacent to a lesser intense zoning classification within the village, excluding those properties zoned A-1 Agricultural, the following landscape and screening provisions shall be required.
(a) All yards and open spaces surrounding buildings, parking lots, access drives and streets shall be landscaped with trees and shrubs, and shall be maintained by the property owner.
(b) Trees in front yards shall be planted at a ratio of at least one, two and one-half inch caliper shade tree for every 30 feet of street frontage. Strategic grouping of trees is encouraged, as opposed to even spacing of trees.
(c) Yard areas shall be landscaped at a ratio of at least one shrub or tree for every ten feet of the principal building’s nearest exterior wall. Strategic grouping is also encouraged.
(d) For parking areas greater than 30 spaces, a minimum of 20 square feet of interior landscaped area per space shall be provided. In order to qualify as an interior landscaped area, the area shall be located wholly within or projecting inward from the boundaries of the parking area.
(2) The terms of these landscaping and screening provisions will not apply in the event an I-3 Industrial use becomes adjacent to a lesser intense classification within the village (excluding those properties zoned A-1 Agricultural) subsequent to the time of original construction.
(H) Special provisions.
(1) Waste materials. No materials or wastes shall be deposited upon a lot in such a form that they may be transferred off the property by natural causes or forces.
(2) Other regulations. The following list references the appropriate sections of this chapter which specify the other regulations governing development in this district:
(c) Outdoor storage, see § 162.090; and
(d) Screening, see § 162.091.
(Ord. 656, passed 7-2-2001; Ord. 706, passed 12-2-2002; Am. Ord. 984, passed 7-27-2011)