§ 155.026 GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT (GI).
   (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 are completely confined within an enclosed building.
   (B)   Uses permitted. Property and buildings in the General Industrial District (Gl) shall be used only for the following purposes:
      (1)   A retail and 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 by a caretaker or night watchman employed on the premises shall be permitted in the General Industrial District (GI);
      (3)   Business signs as regulated in § 155.051;
      (4)   Building material sales yard and lumberyards, 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 or 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 stations, subject to § 155.004(A)(3);
      (9)   Auction house, except for sale of livestock;
      (10)   Tire recapping or retreading; and
      (11)   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, rubber, textiles, tin, iron, steel, wood (excluding saw mill), 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 or gas;
         (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, 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 nonferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odors;
         (j)   Planing mill;
         (k)   Wholesale or warehouse enterprise; and
         (l)   Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
   (C)   Uses permitted on review. 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 (GI) in accordance with § 155.073:
      (1)   Acid manufacture;
      (2)   Blast furnace or coke oven;
      (3)   Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture;
      (4)   Distillation of bones;
      (5)   Drop forge industries manufacturing forging with power hammers;
      (6)   Explosives, manufacture or storage;
      (7)   Fat rendering, except as an incidental use;
      (8)   Fertilizer manufacture;
      (9)   Garbage, offal or dead animals reduction or dumping;
      (10)   Glue manufacture;
      (11)   Ore reduction;
      (12)   Paper and pulp manufacture;
      (13)   Processing of junk (junkyard), waste, discarded or salvaged materials, machinery or equipment, including automobile wrecking or dismantling, as regulated in § 155.004(A)(5);
      (14)   Refuse dumps;
      (15)   Rock, sand or gravel, or earth excavation, crushing or distribution;
      (16)   Saw mill;
      (17)   Slaughter of animals including poultry killing or dressing;
      (18)   Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores;
      (19)   Stockyards or feeding pens;
      (20)   Tannery or the curing or storage of raw hides;
      (21)   Acetylene gas manufacture or bulk storage;
      (22)   Business signs as regulated in § 155.051;
      (23)   Alcohol manufacture;
      (24)   Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture;
      (25)   A retail or service use only when it serves directly or is auxiliary to the needs of industrial plants or employees thereof;
      (26)   Asphalt manufacture or refining;
      (27)   Boiler works;
      (28)   Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacture;
      (29)   Chemical manufacture;
      (30)   Concrete or cement products manufacture;
      (31)   Freight, terminal (railroad);
      (32)   Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry or fabrication plant;
      (33)   Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, varnish or enamel manufacture;
      (34)   Plastic manufacture;
      (35)   Power plant;
      (36)   Quarry or stone mill;
      (37)   Railroad repair shops;
      (38)   Rolling mill;
      (39)   Soap manufacture;
      (40)   Tar distillation or tar products manufacture;
      (41)   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 explosive hazards.
         (a)   In general, those uses which may be obnoxious or offensive by the reason of emission or 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.
         (b)   Buildings, structures and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
   (D)   Nonpermitted use. Under no circumstances shall manufactured home or manufactured home parks be permitted in this district.
   (E)   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 20,000 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.
         (a)   No building shall be located closer than 25 feet to a side yard lot line.
         (b)   The width of a side yard which abuts a residential district shall be not less than 50 feet.
      (4)   Rear yard.
         (a)   No building shall be located closer than 25 feet to the rear lot line.
         (b)   The depth of a rear yard which abuts on a residential district shall be not less than 50 feet.
      (5)   Coverage. Main and accessory building and off-street parking and loading facilities shall not cover more than 75% of the lot area.
   (F)   Height regulations. No building or structure shall exceed five stories or 60 feet in height, except as hereinafter provided in § 155.047.
   (G)   Minimum off-street parking and loading requirements. As regulated in § 155.049.
   (H)   Screening and landscaping. As regulated in § 155.045.
(Prior Code, § 27-A-04-07)