(A) General description. The General Industrial District (GI) is established to provide areas in which the principal use of land is for light manufacturing and assembly plants, processing, storage, warehousing, wholesaling, and distribution in which operations are conducted so that noise, odor, dust, and glare is completely confined within an enclosed building.
(B) Uses permitted. Property and buildings in the General Industrial District shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1) A retail or service use only when it directly serves or is auxiliary to the needs of industrial plants or employees thereof;
(2) No residential use, except sleeping facilities required for caretaker or night watchman employed on the premises shall be permitted in this district;
(3) Business sign as regulated in § 155.62;
(4) Building material, sales yard, and lumber yards including the sale of rock, sand, gravel, and the like, as an incidental part of the main business, but not including a concrete batch plant or a transit mix plant;
(5) Contractor's equipment, storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors;
(6) Freighting or trucking yard or terminal;
(7) Outdoor storage facilities for coal, coke, building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber; open storage of construction contractor's equipment and supplies shall be screened by a seven-foot obscuring fence, wall, or mass plantings, or otherwise so located as not to be obnoxious to the orderly appearance of the district;
(8) Public utility substations, service yards, and pumping stations, electrical receiving, or transforming station, subject to § 155.55(C)(2);
(9) Auction houses;
(10) The following uses when conducted within a completely enclosed building:
(a) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products;
(b) The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: aluminum, bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, rubbers textiles, tin, iron, steel, wood (excluding sawmill), yarn, and paint not involving a boiling process;
(c) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity, gas, or oil;
(d) The manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like;
(e) The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps;
(f) Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender works, truck repairing and overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, and battery manufacturing;
(g) The sale, storage, and sorting of junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials, machinery, or equipment, but not including processing;
(h) Blacksmith shop and machine shop;
(i) Foundry casting lightweight non-ferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odors;
(j) Planing mill; and
(k) Wholesale or warehouse enterprise; and
(11) Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
(C) Uses permitted on review.
(1) All of the following uses are declared to be special uses and a use permit may be authorized by the governing body for the location and operation thereof in the General Industrial District in accordance with § 155.88:
(a) Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster-of-paris manufacture;
(b) Distillation of bones;
(c) Drop forge industries, manufacturing forging with power hammers, explosives manufacture or storage;
(d) Fertilizer manufacture;
(e) Rock, sand, or gravel or earth excavation, crushing, or distribution;
(f) Sawmill;
(g) Smelting of tin, copper, zinc, or iron ores;
(h) Business sign as regulated in § 155.62;
(i) Alcohol manufacture;
(j) A retail or service use only when it serves directly or is auxiliary to the needs of industrial plants or employees thereof;
(k) Boiler works;
(l) Brick, tile, or terra cotta manufacture;
(m) Concrete or cement products manufacture;
(n) Freight, terminal (railroad);
(o) Power plant;
(p) Quarry or stone mill;
(r) Rolling mills;
(s) Soap manufacture; and
(t) Tank storage of bulk oil and gasoline and the mixture of bulk storage of illuminating or heating gas, subject to the proper precautions as to location to prevent fire and explosion hazards and ground water contamination subject to OSHA and EPA requirements.
(2) In general, these uses which may be obnoxious or offensive by the reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, and the like, and not allowed in any other district, provided, however, that any use not specified herein shall be approved by the governing body.
(3) Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
(4) Adult businesses, as provided by Chapter 111.
(D) Area regulations. The following requirements shall apply to all uses permitted in this district.
(1) Lot Area. Any principal use together with all accessory uses shall be located on a lot having a minimum area of 10,000 square feet.
(2) Front yard. All buildings shall be set back from all street right-of-way lines not less than 25 feet.
(3) Side yard. No building shall be located closer than 25 feet to a side yard lot line. The width of a side yard which abuts a residential district shall be not less than 50 feet.
(4) Rear yard. No building shall be located closer than 25 feet to the rear lot line. The depth of a rear yard which abuts on a residential district shall be not less than 50 feet.
(5) Maximum lot coverage. Main and accessory buildings and off-street parking and loading facilities shall not cover more than 75% of the lot area.
(E) Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed two and one-half stories or 35 feet in height, except as hereinafter provided in § 155.57.
(G) Screening and landscaping. All yard areas required under this section and other yards and open spaces existing around buildings shall be landscaped and maintained in a neat condition.
(Ord. 10.6, passed 3-17-2009)