(A) General description. The purpose of the I-H Heavy Industrial District, is to provide a location for industries which may by their nature create nuisances. The intent is to preserve this land especially for such industry in locations with access to arterial streets as designated on the thoroughfare plan, as well as locations generally accessible to railroad transportation. 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 I-L is required.
(Prior Code, § 12-280)
(B) Standards. Any use constructed, established, altered, or enlarged in the I-H Heavy Industrial 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 the 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, water (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 explosive hazards; and
(6) No activities involving storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation shall be permitted.
(Prior Code, § 12-281)
(C) Uses permitted. Within the I-H Heavy Industrial District, the following uses are permitted:
(1) Any use permitted in the C-C Convenience Commercial District; C-A/R Automotive Commercial District; C-G General Commercial District; and I-l Light Industrial District;
(2) Blacksmiths, tinsmiths, and sheet metal shops;
(3) Bottling works;
(4) Canning or preserving factories;
(5) Cold storage plants;
(6) Ice cream production and distribution;
(7) Laundry and dry cleaning plants;
(8) Machine shops;
(9) Machinery rental, sales, and service; and
(10) 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 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 stone cutting;
(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;
(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.
(Prior Code, § 12-282)
(D) Area regulations.
(1) There are no requirements for minimum lot area or 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 § 155.087(D) for the I-L District.
(3) Buildings shall not cover more than 50% of the site on which the use is located.
(Prior Code, § 12-283)
(E) Signs and billboards. All signs and billboards in the I-H District shall conform to the requirements in § 155.085(D).
(Prior Code, § 12-284)
(Ord. 1020, passed 1-15-1970; Ord. 06-02, passed 11-14-2005) Penalty, see § 155.999