In a Light Industrial District, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected, except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
(a) Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design, and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building .
(b) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding, or processing shall be totally obscured by a wall on those sides abutting R-1 through R-3, R-T, RM, B-1, B-2, and B-3 Districts, and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare except as may be otherwise provided in this Zoning Code. In I-1 Districts, the extent of such a wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such a wall shall not be less than four feet, six inches in height and may, depending upon land usage, be required to be eight feet in height, and shall be subject further to the requirements of Chapters 1278 through 1286. A chain-link fence, with intense evergreen shrub planting, may be considered an obscuring wall. The height shall be determined in the same manner as the wall height is above set forth.
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and trucking facilities.
(2) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of such products as, but not limited to: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge, and machine shops.
(3) The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood, and yarns.
(4) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(5) Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other molded rubber products.
(6) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs.
(7) Laboratories - experimental, film, or testing.
(8) Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.
(9) Central dry cleaning plants or laundries, provided that such plants shall not deal directly with a consumer at retail.
(10) All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.
(c) Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations. Water supply and sewage disposal plants. Water and gas tank holders. Railroad transfer and storage tracks. Railroad rights-of-way. Freight terminals.
(d) Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor's equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all Residential or Business Districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In any I-1 District, the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than five feet in height, and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chain-link type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of said fence, shall be considered to be an obscuring fence.
(e) Municipal uses such as water treatment plants, and reservoirs, sewage treatment.
(f) Commercial kennel.
(g) Greenhouses.
(h) Trade or industrial schools.
(i) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to the above uses.
(j) Accessory buildings, structures and uses in conformity with Section 1240.11(1) that are customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.
(1975 Code § 5.92) (Ord. 481. Passed 12-7-10.)