A. Industrial Service Uses:
1. Characteristics: Firms that are engaged in the repair or servicing of industrial, business or consumer machinery, equipment, products or byproducts. Industrial service firms that service or repair consumer goods do so primarily by providing centralized services for separate retail outlets, rather than for individual customers. Few customers, especially the general public, come to the site. (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
2. Examples: Facilities, yards, and preassembly yards for construction contractors; welding shops; machines shops; tool repair; electric motor repair; repair of scientific or professional instruments; repair of heavy machinery; towing and vehicle storage; servicing and repair of medium and heavy trucks; exterminators; fuel oil distributors; solid fuel yards; laundry, dry cleaning and carpet cleaning plants; schools for industrial trades. (Ord. 11-4452, 10-18-2011)
3. Accessory uses: Offices; parking; storage; rail spur or lead lines. (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
4. Exceptions:
a. Building contractors who primarily perform services off site are included in the building trade uses category. However, contractors and others who perform services off site are included in the office use category if large equipment and materials are not stored indoors or outdoors on the site, and fabrication, or similar work, is not conducted on the site. (Ord. 11-4452, 10-18-2011)
b. Recycling processing facilities are classified as waste related uses.
c. Schools that offer training in industrial trades, but that do not include training on large equipment or vehicles and that do not include activities that generate noise, odors, or dust more typical of industrial uses, are classified as specialized educational facilities or colleges and universities.
B. Manufacturing And Production Uses:
1. Characteristics: Firms that are involved in the manufacturing, processing, fabrication, packaging, or assembly of goods. Natural, manmade, raw, secondary, or partially completed materials may be used. Products may be finished or semifinished and are generally made for the wholesale market, for transfer to other plants, or to order for businesses or consumers. Goods are generally not displayed or sold on site, but if so, they are a subordinate part of sales. Relatively few customers come to the manufacturing site.
2. Examples: Examples include uses from the three (3) subgroups listed below: (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
a. Technical/Light Manufacturing: Firms engaged in the manufacturing, development, processing, fabricating, packaging or assembling of electronic components; electrotherapeutic, electromedical and X-ray apparatus; engineering, scientific and research laboratory equipment; measuring and controlling instruments; office, computing and accounting machines; optical instruments and lenses; pharmaceuticals; photographic equipment and supplies; photofinishing laboratories. (Ord. 09-4352, 7-6-2009)
b. General Manufacturing: Manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of most articles, materials, or merchandise. This subgroup excludes those manufacturing firms listed as examples under heavy manufacturing and also excludes those manufacturing uses that are expressly prohibited in Iowa City. For example, this subgroup includes the manufacture of most chemicals and allied products and the manufacture of most food and kindred products, except those listed under the heavy manufacturing subgroup.
c. Heavy Manufacturing: Manufacturing firms not included in the manufacturing categories above because they may have significant external effects (excessive odor, fumes, smoke, dust, hazardous waste) on adjacent, less intense commercial or industrial uses. Included in this category are uses such as concrete batch/mix plants; asphalt mixing plants; meatpacking plants; sawmills and planing mills; wet corn milling; manufacture of animal feeds; and paper and paperboard mills.
3. Accessory Uses: Offices; cafeterias; off street parking; employee recreational facilities; on site daycare facilities; warehouses; storage yards; rail spur or lead lines; docks; repair facilities; truck fleets.
4. Exceptions:
a. Manufacturing of goods to be sold primarily on site and to the general public are classified as sales oriented retail.
b. Salvage and wrecking of automobiles, trucks, and other heavy machinery is classified as salvage operations.
5. Prohibited Uses: Rendering plants; Portland cement plants; stockyards and slaughterhouses; manufacture of fertilizers or explosives; oil refining and alcohol plants; steel mills; pulp mills.
C. Salvage Operations:
1. Characteristics: Firms that collect, store, and dismantle damaged or discarded automobiles, trucks, machinery, appliances, and building materials. Damaged goods are often dismantled in order to salvage usable parts for resale.
2. Examples: Auto and truck salvage and wrecking; salvage and wrecking of heavy machinery, appliances, and building materials.
3. Accessory uses: Towing services; offices; parking; storage.
4. Exceptions:
a. Recycling processing facilities are classified as waste related uses.
b. Uses that receive, store, or dispose of liquid or solid organic materials or waste are classified as waste related uses.
D. Self-Service Storage Uses:
1. Characteristics: Uses that provide separate storage areas for individual or business uses. The storage areas are designed to allow private access by the tenant for storing or removing personal property.
2. Examples: Miniwarehouses; ministorage facilities.
3. Accessory uses: Security and leasing offices. Use of the storage areas for sales, service, repair operations, or manufacturing is not considered accessory to a self-service storage use.
4. Exceptions: A transfer and storage business where there are no individual storage areas or where employees are the primary movers of the goods to be stored or transferred is classified as warehouse and freight movement. (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
E. Warehouse And Freight Movement Uses:
1. Characteristics: Firms involved in the storage or movement of goods for themselves or other firms. Goods are generally delivered to other firms or the final consumer, except for some will-call pick ups. There is little on site sales activity with the customer present.
2. Examples: Separate warehouses used by retail stores such as furniture and appliance stores; household moving and general freight storage; cold storage plants, including frozen food lockers; major wholesale distribution centers; truck and air freight terminals; railroad switching yards; bus and railcar storage lots; storage lots for large fleets of vehicles; parcel services; major postal facilities; grain terminals; and the stockpiling of sand, gravel, and other aggregate materials.
3. Accessory uses: Offices; fleet parking and maintenance areas; rail spur or lead lines; docks; and repackaging facilities.
4. Exceptions:
a. Uses that involve the transfer or storage of solid or liquid wastes are classified as waste related uses.
b. Miniwarehouses are classified as self-service storage.
c. Dispatch facilities and accessory parking areas for taxi and limousine services are classified as surface passenger services. (Ord. 06-4245, 12-12-2006)
F. Waste Related Uses:
1. Characteristics: Uses that receive solid or liquid wastes from others for disposal on the site or for transfer to another location; uses that collect sanitary wastes; uses that recycle solid waste or recyclable materials; and uses that manufacture or produce goods or energy from biological decomposition of organic material.
2. Examples: Recycling processing facilities; sanitary landfills; limited use landfills; waste composting; waste transfer stations; energy recovery plants; sewage treatment plants; portable sanitary collection equipment storage and pumping; and hazardous waste collection sites.
3. Accessory uses: Recycling of materials; offices; repackaging and transshipment of byproducts.
4. Exceptions: Uses that receive, store, and dismantle damaged or discarded vehicles, machinery, appliances or building materials for reuse or resale of component parts are classified as salvage operations.
5. Prohibited Uses: Disposal, reduction or dumping of dead animals or offal; radioactive waste storage or disposal facilities. (Ord. 05-4186, 12-15-2005)
G. Wholesale Sales Uses:
1. Characteristics: Firms that are primarily involved in the sale, lease, or rent of products to retailers; to industrial, institutional, or commercial business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such individuals or companies. Businesses may or may not be open to the general public, but sales to the general public are limited. Products may be picked up on site or delivered to the customer.
2. Examples: Wholesale sales and rental of heavy trucks, machinery, equipment, building materials, special trade tools, welding supplies, machine parts, electrical supplies, janitorial supplies, restaurant equipment, and store fixtures; mail order houses; wholesalers of food, clothing, auto parts, and building hardware.
3. Accessory uses: Offices; products repair; warehouses; parking; minor fabrication services; repackaging of goods.
4. Exceptions:
a. Firms that engage primarily in sales to the general public or on a membership basis are classified as sales oriented retail.
b. Firms that are primarily storing goods with little on site business activity are classified as warehouse and freight movement.
c. Wholesale plant or tree nurseries are classified as agriculture. (Ord. 06-4245, 12-12-2006)