(A) General description.
(1) The purpose of the I-H Heavy Industrial District is to provide a location for industries which by their very nature create nuisances. The intent is to preserve this land especially for such industry in locations with access to arterial streets, as well as locations generally accessible to railroad transportation.
(2) Because of the nuisances or other objectionable influences that may be created in this district, a buffer or setback strip between this district and other zoning districts, except the I-L District, is required.
(B) Standards. Any use constructed, established, altered or enlarged in the I-H District after the effective date hereof shall be so operated as to comply with the following standards. No use already established on the effective date hereof shall be so altered or modified as to conflict with, or further conflict with, the applicable standards hereinafter for the I-H District.
(1) No building shall be used for residential purposes, except that a watchperson may reside on the premises.
(2) No retail sales or services shall be permitted except as incidental to or accessory to a permitted use.
(3) No storage, manufacture or assembly of goods shall be conducted out of a building unless the nearest point of activity is more than 100 feet from the boundary of any zoning district.
(4) Exterior lighting fixtures shall be shaded wherever necessary to avoid casting direct light upon property located in any residential district.
(5) All manufacturing, fabricating, assembly, disassembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing and testing of goods, wares and merchandise shall be carried on in such a manner as not to be injurious or offensive by reason of the emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust or other particulate matter, toxic or noxious matter, odors, glare, heat, fire or explosives hazard.
(6) No activities involving storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation are permitted.
(C) Uses permitted. Within the I-H District, any use permitted in the I-L District also applies. The following uses are permitted:
(1) Blacksmiths, tinsmiths and sheet metal shops;
(2) Bottling works;
(3) Canning or preserving factories;
(4) Cold storage plants;
(5) Ice cream production and distribution;
(6) Laundry and dry cleaning plants;
(7) Machine shops;
(8) Machinery rental, sales and service; and
(9) Manufacturing, fabricating, assembling, repairing, storing and cleaning, servicing or testing of any of the following materials, goods or merchandise:
(a) Apparel;
(b) Automobile wrecking and junk yards; provided, that they are enclosed throughout the entire perimeter by a solid fence not less than eight feet in height;
(c) Beverages (nonalcoholic), processing and bottling;
(d) Building materials specialties;
(e) Bulk fuel sales and storage;
(f) Clothing;
(g) Compounding and packaging of chemicals;
(h) Cosmetics and toiletries;
(i) Dairy products;
(j) Drugs and pharmaceutical products;
(k) Electrical and acoustical products and components;
(l) Food products (except fish, sauerkraut, vinegar and yeast);
(m) Furniture;
(n) Glass products;
(o) Ice, dry and natural;
(p) Jewelry;
(q) Medical laboratory supplies, equipment and specialties;
(r) Metal products and utensils;
(s) Milk, bottling and distribution;
(t) Monumental stonecutting;
(u) Motor freight terminals;
(v) Musical instruments;
(w) Optical goods;
(x) Paper products, including boxes and containers;
(y) Pattern shops;
(z) Printing plants;
(aa) Processing of meat and vegetable products, including the slaughter of animals;
(bb) Radios, phonographs, recorders and television sets and parts, computer-related equipment;
(cc) Railroad yards and switching areas, including lodging and sleeping facilities for transient railroad labor;
(dd) Sign painting;
(ee) Soldering and welding shops;
(ff) Spray painting and mixing;
(gg) Textiles;
(hh) Toys and children’s vehicles;
(ii) Trailers and carts; and
(jj) Wood products, including wooden boxes and containers.
(D) Area regulations.
(1) There are no requirements for minimum lot frontage in the I-H District.
(2) Front, rear and side yard requirements in the I-H District are the same as those set forth in § 152.57(D) for the I-L District.
(3) Buildings shall not cover more than 50% of the site on which the use is located.
(E) Signs and billboards. All signs and billboards in the I-H District shall conform to the requirements in § 152.55(D).
(Prior Code, § 10-2E-8) Penalty, see § 152.99