(A) Permitted uses. Since most uses permitted in this District will be in proximity to residential districts, it is hereby declared that performance standards shall be high, and that all manufacturing, processing, or assembly of materials and products must be carried on in a manner not injurious or offensive to the occupants of adjacent premises by reason of the emission of odors, fumes, of gases, dust, smoke, noise, vibrations or fire hazards. Therefore, the following uses may be permitted provided there is compliance with the performance standards established herein:
(1) Any use permitted in a B district, but not including residences or apartment, except such dwelling accommodations as may be needed to house a caretaker or watchman employed on the premises, and their families.
(2) Artificial limb manufacture.
(3) Automobile painting, upholstering, repairing, reconditioning and body and fender repairing when done within the confines of a structure.
(4) Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.
(5) Batteries, manufacture and rebuilding.
(6) Bedspring and mattress manufacture.
(7) Belting.
(8) Bicycle manufacture.
(9) Brooms and brushes.
(10) Boat building and repair.
(11) Building equipment, building materials, lumber, coal, sand, and gravel yards, and yards for contracting equipment, maintenance or operating equipment of public agencies, or public utilities, or materials or equipment of similar nature.
(12) Bus lines shops and garages.
(13) Canning and preserving.
(14) Canvas and canvas products.
(15) Carpet and rug cleaning.
(16) Carpet manufacturing.
(17) Carting, express hauling or storage yards (delivery to within 15 mile radius only).
(18) Cement block manufacture.
(19) Ceramic products, pottery, and glazed tile.
(20) Chick hatcheries.
(21) Cleaning and dyeing establishments when employing facilities for handling more than 1,000 pounds of dry goods per day.
(22) Cigarettes and cigars.
(23) Coated fabrics, except rubberized.
(23A) Consumer metals recycling facility as stipulated in §
155.118
.
(24) Cork and cork products.
(25) Creameries and dairies.
(26) Drapery and bedding manufacture.
(27) Drugs and pharmaceutical products.
(28) Electric motors and generators.
(29) Engraving.
(30) Felt manufacture.
(31) Fur goods, not including tanning or dyeing.
(32) Glass products, from previously manufactured glass.
(33) Heating appliances and sheet metal products, including stoves and ranges.
(34) Hosiery manufacture.
(35) Ice cream and ice manufacture.
(36) Laundries, more than 1,000 pounds daily capacity.
(37) Machine shops and metal products manufacture, when not equipped with heavy (exceeding 50 ton pressure) punch presses, drop forges, riveting and grinding machines, or other equipment which may create noise, vibration, smoke, or odors, heat, glare, or fire hazards, exceeding the performance standards made a part of this chapter.
(38) Metal polishing and plating.
(39) Musical instruments.
(40) Pianos and organs.
(41) Perfumes and cosmetics.
(42) Plastic products, but not including the processing of the raw materials.
(43) Public utility electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations.
(44) Rubber products (small) such as washers, gloves, footwear and bathing caps, but excluding rubber and synthetic rubber processing.
(45) Shoes and boots.
(46) Signs, as defined and regulated by this chapter.
(47) Storage of household goods.
(48) Storage and sale of trailers, farm implements and other similar products on an open lot.
(49) Sporting and athletic equipment.
(50) Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oils in tanks, each of 50,000 gallons or less capacity, but only after the location and protective measures have been approved by local governing authorities.
(51) Stone, marble, and granite grinding and cutting.
(52) Storage warehouse (excluding the storage of flammable, explosive, noxious, toxic or ecologically harmful materials including but not limited to naptha, benzine, benzole, gasoline, benzine varnish, or any product in whole or in part of either, gunpowder, ammunition, ordnance, fireworks, nitro- glycerine, phosphorus, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, camphene, kerosene or other petroleum base materials.
(53) Textiles, spinning, weaving, dyeing and printing.
(54) Tools and hardware, such as hand tools, bolts, nuts, screws, cutlery, house hardware, locks and plumbing appliances.
(55) Tool and die shops.
(56) Toys and children's vehicles.
(57) Wire brush manufacture.
(58) Any other manufacturing establishment that can be operated in compliance with the requirements of this division, without creating objectional noise, odors, dust, smoke, gas, fumes, or vapor and that is a use compatible with the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.
(59) Planned developments, as defined in § 155.003.
('71 Code, § 11-14-1) (Ord. 1413, passed 9-13-60; Am. Ord. 2171, passed 1-26-81; Am. Ord. 2661, passed 2-8-88; Am. Ord. 3607, passed 5-11-09; Am. Ord. 4067, passed 8-9-21)
(1) Any permitted or special use which may be allowed in the B-1, B-2, B-3 or B-4 Business Districts, but not including the following: churches; religious institutions; schools, elementary, high or college, public or private; day care centers or nursery schools (except those accessory to a manufacturing use; cemeteries or mausoleums; golf courses, public or private; hospitals, public or private; institutions or hospitals for the care of the insane or feeble minded, public or private; public or private park or playground (except those accessory to a manufacturing use); skilled nursing unit; multiple-family dwelling, apartment, boarding and lodging house; elderly congregate housing, independent and semi- independent; rest homes and nursing homes; sheltered care or board and care facilities.
(2) Planned developments, industrial.
(3) Airport and aircraft landing fields.
(4) Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas.
(5) Outdoor theaters.
(6) Public or privately owned and operated fairgrounds, permanent carnivals “kiddie parks” or other similar amusement centers.
(7) Junkyards.
(8) Welding shops.
(9) Automobile, truck, trailer, tractor or bus storage yard, operable vehicles only.
(10) Truck terminal.
(11) Cannabis infuser. Cannabis infusers shall not be located within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school, park or any other use deemed necessary by the Planning Commission and City Council. The hours of operation shall be determined as a part of the conditions under which the special use is granted. The consumption of all cannabis and cannabis infused products, on the infuser site, shall be prohibited. Infusers shall comply with all other city and state laws.
(12) Cannabis transporter. Cannabis transporters shall not be located within 1,000 feet of the property line of a school, park or any other use deemed necessary by the Planning Commission and City Council. The hours of operation shall be determined as a part of the conditions under which the special use is granted. The consumption of all cannabis and cannabis infused products, on the transporter site, shall be prohibited. Transporters shall comply with all other city and state laws.
(13) Cannabis cultivation center. Cannabis cultivation centers shall not be located within 750 feet of the property line of a school, church, licensed daycare center, nursery school, park, sheltered care or board and care facility, penal or correctional institutions, hospitals or sanitariums, public or private, municipal or privately owned recreation building, or any other use deemed necessary by the Planning Commission and City Council. The hours of operation shall be determined as a part of the conditions under which the special use is granted. The consumption of all cannabis and cannabis infused products, on the cannabis cultavation center site, shall be prohibited. Cannabis cultavation centers shall comply with all other city and state laws.
(14) Cannabis craft grower. Cannabis craft growers shall not be located within 750 feet of the property line of a school, church, licensed daycare center, nursery school, park, sheltered care or board and care facility, penal or correctional institutions, hospitals or sanitariums, public or private, municipal or privately owned recreation building, or any other use deemed necessary by the Planning Commission and City Council. The hours of operation shall be determined as a part of the conditions under which the special use is granted. The consumption of all cannabis and cannabis infused products, on the cannabis craft grower site, shall be prohibited. Cannabis craft growers shall comply with all other city and state laws.
('71 Code, § 11-14-2) (Ord. 1413, passed 9-13-60; Am. Ord. 2057, passed 6-11-79; Am. Ord. 2273, passed 4-26-82; Am. Ord. 2661, passed 2-8-88; Am. Ord. 3292, passed 2-26-01; Am. Ord. 3381, passed 3-10-03; Am. Ord. 3991, passed 12-19-19; Am. Ord. 3992, passed 12-19-19; Am. Ord. 4066, passed 8-9-21)
('71 Code, § 11-14-3)
(D) Yard areas. The maximum ground area occupied by all buildings shall be not more than 60% of the area of the lot or tract on which a building permit has been issued.
(1) Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet wherein there shall be no structure of any kind, open storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of vehicles.
(2) Side yard. There shall be a minimum side yard of not less than 15 feet on both sides of the building or buildings, but where the property is adjacent to an R district, there shall be a side yard of not less than 25 feet on the side nearest to residential lots. The parking of private automobiles may be permitted within the side yard areas, but not closer than five feet to any lot zoned for residential use.
(3) Rear yard. A rear yard is not required except where a lot abuts upon an R district, in which case there shall be a rear yard of not less than 30 feet, and no storage of materials or equipment, or the parking of automobiles shall take place within the ten feet closest to any residential lot or lots.
('71 Code, § 11-14-4)
(E) Performance standards. The following requirements shall apply:
(1) Noise.
(a) The sound pressure level, to be measured as described below, shall not exceed the following decibel levels in the designated octave bands when adjacent to the designated types of use districts:
Sound Level in Decibels | ||
Octave Band, Cycles per Second | All Residential Districts | B-1, B-2, B-3 Districts |
Sound Level in Decibels | ||
Octave Band, Cycles per Second | All Residential Districts | B-1, B-2, B-3 Districts |
37.5 to 75 | 58 | 73 |
75 to 150 | 54 | 69 |
150 to 300 | 50 | 65 |
300 to 600 | 46 | 61 |
600 to 1200 | 40 | 55 |
1200 to 2400 | 33 | 48 |
2400 to 4800 | 26 | 41 |
Over 4800 | 20 | 35 |
(b) Objectionable sounds of an intermitted nature which are not easily measured shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses.
(c) Method of measurement. Measurement is to be made at the nearest boundary of the nearest residential area or at any other point along the boundary where the level is higher. The sound levels shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated octave band filter as prescribed by the American Standards Association.
(2) Smoke and particulate matter. The emission of smoke or dusts by manufacturing plants in an amount sufficient to create a general nuisance to adjoining properties shall be prohibited. Total emission of smoke and particulate matter shall be limited to the following:
(a) Ringelmann requirements. All smoke and the emission of all other particulate matter in quantities sufficient to produce an opacity at any point greater than Ringelmann 3 is prohibited. The only exception shall be a plume consisting entirely of condensed steam. A Ringelmann 1 unit is defined as 20% density for one minute. No more than 15 units of Ringelmann smoke shall be permitted per hour and no smoke more intense than Ringelmann 2 except that during one hour of a 24-hour day, 30 units of smoke may be emitted but with no smoke more intense than Ringelmann 3.
(b) The total quantity of emitted solids shall not exceed one pound per hour, per acre of lot area.
(3) Odors. No odor shall be emitted by any use permitted in this District in such quantities as to be readily detectable by an average observer at any point on the boundary line of the premises or beyond.
(4) Noxious gases. Processes and operations of permitted unescapable of dispersing gases or toxic particulate into the atmosphere must be hooded or otherwise suitably enclosed. The emission of such toxic gases or particulate matter shall be from a stack.
(5) Glare and heat. Operations producing intense light or heat shall be performed within an enclosed building and not be visible beyond any lot line bounding the property whereon the use is conducted.
(6) Vibrations. There shall be no uses which create heavy, earth-shaking vibrations which are noticeable at the property line of the subject premises.
('71 Code, § 11-14-5)
(F) Fences and walls. Fences and walls shall comply with the regulations set forth in
Chapter 158
.
(Ord. 1413, passed 9-13-60; Am. Ord. 3875, passed 3-27-17) Penalty, see § 155.999