(A) Purpose. The I Industrial District is established to provide exemplary standards of development for certain industrial uses that prefer to be located in choice or strategic sites. With proper control, these areas should become compatible with commercial or residential areas.
(B) Special requirements. None.
(C) Permitted uses. The following are permitted uses:
(1) Art equipment supplies - manufacture;
(2) Automobile service station;
(3) Bags, boxes and paper containers, manufacturing and storage;
(4) Bakery products;
(5) Bottling establishments;
(6) Blank books, looseleaf binders fabrication and assembly;
(7) Books and bookbinding;
(8) Cabinet and woodworking establishments;
(9) Clothing manufacture;
(10) Camera and photographic manufacturing;
(11) Cold storage plants, commercial printing, publishing, engraving and reproduction firms;
(12) Confectionery and related products, manufacture and packaging;
(13) Dental instruments and supplies;
(14) Dry cleaning and dying establishments;
(15) Electric lighting and wiring equipment - manufacture;
(16) Electric measuring and testing equipment - manufacture;
(17) Electronic tubes and other components - manufacture;
(18) Electrical products and appliances - manufacture and assembly;
(19) Footwear - manufacture and fabrication;
(20) Hand and edge tools (except machine tools) - manufacture and assembly;
(21) Hardware warehousing and distribution operations;
(22) Ice plants and ice cream plants;
(23) Jewelry manufacture;
(24) Laboratory instruments and associated equipment, scientific and testing;
(25) Laundries;
(26) Luggage, handbags, and similar items - manufacture and assembly, lumber yards;
(27) Mail order houses;
(28) Medical and surgical instruments and supplies;
(29) Newspaper plants and offices;
(30) Office furniture and supplies;
(31) Optical instruments and lenses - manufacture and assembly;
(32) Patterns - design and manufacture;
(33) Pottery shop;
(34) Precision instruments;
(35) Plastics manufacture;
(36) Plumbing fixture and equipment - wholesale;
(37) Radio and television - assembly and parts fabrication;
(38) Sport equipment - manufacture and assembly;
(39) Scientific and research instruments and equipment manufacture and assembly;
(40) Signs and advertising display materials;
(41) Telephone and telegraph technical apparatus - manufacture and assembly;
(42) Temperature controls - fabrication and assembly;
(43) Trade schools;
(44) Welding supply; and
(45) Wholesale business facilities.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted:
(1) Planned industrial developments;
(2) Any manufacturing, production, processing, cleaning, storage, servicing, repair and testing of materials, goods or products similar to those permitted uses which conform with the performance standards set forth in this district;
(3) Freight terminals; and
(4) Other manufacture, processing, storage, commercial or residential uses determined by the Planning Agency not to be obnoxious, unhealthful or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, oxidation, smoke, dust, odors, toxic or noxious matter or glare or heat.
(E) Accessory uses. Uses incidental to the principal use are allowed.
(F) Minimum lot size.
(1) Every individual lot, site or tract shall have an area of not less than one-half acre.
(2) Every lot or tract shall have a width of not less than 100 feet abutting a public right-of-way.
(3) There shall be a required minimum 10% reservation of the total lot area for landscaping use. The landscaping shall conform in design and appearance with the overall development plan as approved by the Planning Commission.
(G) Front, side and rear yard requirements.
(1) Front yard: there shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 35 feet between building and the street right-of-way line to be devoted exclusively to landscaping except for necessary points of access;
(2) Side yard: there shall be two side yards, one on each side of a building. Each side yard shall be not less than 15 feet in width; and
(3) Rear yard: there shall be a rear yard not less than 30 feet in depth.
(H) Transitional yards requirements. When any lot line coincides with a lot line of an adjacent residential district, the setback shall be at least 30 feet.
(I) Maximum ground coverage. In the I District, the sum total of the ground area covered by all structures (permitted and conditional) on the zoning lot on which the structures are located shall not exceed 60%.
(J) Off-street parking and loading/unloading facilities. Off-street parking and loading/unloading facilities shall be required as established in the this chapter. All off-street parking and loading/unloading spaces shall be located on the same lot as the principal use.
(K) Performance standards.
(1) Intent. It is the intent of this division (K) to provide that industry and related activities shall be established and maintained with proper appearance from streets and adjoining properties and to provide that each such permitted use shall be a good neighbor to adjoining properties by the control of the following.
(2) Noise. Noise shall be measured on any property line of the tract on which the operation is located. Noise shall be muffled so as not to become objectionable due to intermittence, beat, frequency, shrillness or intensity. At the property line, the sound pressure level of noise radiated continuously from a facility shall not exceed the values given in Table A herein.
Table A
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Maximum permissible sound-pressure levels of specified points of measurement for noise radiated continuously from a facility. | |
Band Cycles Per Second (Frequency) | Maximum Permitted Sound Level (Decibels)
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Table A
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Maximum permissible sound-pressure levels of specified points of measurement for noise radiated continuously from a facility. | |
Band Cycles Per Second (Frequency) | Maximum Permitted Sound Level (Decibels)
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20 - 75 | 72 |
76 - 150 | 67 |
151 - 300 | 59 |
301 - 600 | 52 |
601 - 1,200 | 46 |
1,201 - 2,400 | 40 |
2,401 - 4,800 | 34 |
Over 4,801 | 32 |
(3) Odor. No activity or operation shall cause at any time the discharge of toxic, noxious or odorous matter beyond the limits of the immediate site where it is located in such concentrations as to be obnoxious or otherwise detrimental to or endanger the public health, welfare, comfort or safety or cause injury to property or business.
(4) Glare. Glare, whether direct or reflected, such as from floodlights, spotlights or high temperature processes, and as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible beyond the site of origin at any property line.
(5) Exterior lighting. Any lights used for exterior illuminations shall be directed away from adjacent properties.
(6) Smoke, dust, fumes or gases. Every operation shall conform to local standards.
(7) Hazard. Every operation shall be carried on in accordance with local fire and safety codes.
(8) Water supply. The design and construction of water supply facilities and water supply source shall be in accordance with local and State Department Health standards and requirements.
(9) Waste. All sewage and industrial wastes shall be treated and disposed in such manner as to comply with the state’s Department of Health standards and requirement, and local codes.
(10) Compliance. In order to assure compliance with the performance standards set forth above, the Planning Commission may require the owner or operator of any permitted use to make such investigations and tests as may be required to show adherence to the performance standards.
(11) Review. All subsequent additions and out-buildings constructed after the erection of an original building or buildings shall be reviewed by the Zoning Administrator.
(L) Regulations on screening. All principal and conditional uses, except business signs, which are situated within 50 feet of a residential district shall be screened and buffered from the district by a wall and separation of open space which shall have a minimum depth of 30 feet and shall include a required fence or vegetative screening of not less than seven feet in height above the level of the residential district property at the district boundary. Walls or fences of lesser heights or planting screens may be permitted by the Board of Adjustment and Appeals if there is a finding that the nature or extent of the use being screened is such that a lesser degree of screen will as adequately promote and protect the use and enjoyment of the properties within the adjacent residential district, or there is a finding that a screening of the type required by this chapter would interfere with the provision of adequate amounts of light and air to same properties. All required screening devices shall be designed so that they are architecturally harmonious with the principal structures on the site and they shall be properly maintained so as not to become unsightly, hazardous or less opaque than when originally constructed.
(Prior Code, § 155.31) (Ord. 560, passed 6-6-1978; Ord. 613, passed 3-6-2002; Ord. 630, passed 12-7-2004)