(A) Purpose. The I-1 General Industry District is intended to provide space to meet the locational requirements of a broad range of industrial uses. These industrial uses should be encouraged to locate in areas where adequate utilities are available. Industrial uses should be designed to blend harmoniously with adjacent land uses, particularly residential uses. For this reason, industrial uses should have adequate area to provide off-street parking and loading and screening should be used to provide a visual barrier for unsightly operational characteristics.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted in the I-1 General Industry District:
(1) Any use permitted in the B-I Limited Business District, except that dwellings shall not be a permitted use;
(2) Bottling establishment;
(3) Building materials sales and storage, lumber yards;
(4) Cartage and express facilities;
(5) Contractors offices, shops and yards for plumbing, heating, glazing, painting, paper hanging, roofing, ventilating, air conditioning, masonry, electrical and refrigeration;
(6) Drycleaning establishments, laundries;
(7) Electrical and electronic products manufacture;
(8) Electrical service shops;
(9) Engraving, printing and publishing;
(10) Freight terminal;
(11) Fuel and ice sales and storage;
(12) Garages for storage, repair and servicing of motor vehicles;
(13) Highway maintenance shops and yards;
(14) Jewelry manufacture;
(15) Medical, dental and optical laboratories;
(16) Monument works;
(17) Municipal administration buildings, police and fire stations, maintenance buildings, community center buildings and other municipal service buildings;
(18) Printing;
(19) Public service structures including power substations, gas regulator stations, sewage disposal plants, elevated tanks and water works;
(20) Railroad rights-of-way, railroad yards;
(21) Research, experimental or testing stations;
(22) Storage or warehouse, when completely enclosed within a building;
(23) Wholesale business and office establishments; and
(24) Any water supply building, reservoir, well, elevated tank or similar essential public utility or service structure.
(C) Conditional uses. The following uses may be allowed in the I-1 General Industry District subject to obtaining a conditional use permit in accordance with the provisions of § 156.64:
(1) Any residence when included as an integral part of the principal building to be occupied by the owner or his or her employee;
(2) Any manufacturing, assembling, processing, storage, servicing, repair and testing of materials, goods or products;
(3) Extraction, processing or storage of sand, gravel, stone or other raw material;
(4) Junk yards, wrecking yards or auto salvage yard; and
(5) Any radio or television transmitting or receiving apparatus.
(D) Permitted accessory uses. The following shall be permitted accessory uses in the I-1 General Industry District: any accessory use customarily incident to the uses permitted in divisions (B) and (C) above.
(E) Height, yard, area and lot width and depth regulations. Every lot in the I-1 General Industry District on which any permitted or conditionally permitted use is erected shall meet the following minimum standards.
(1) Height regulations. No building shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered to exceed 45 feet in height.
(2) Front yard regulations.
(a) There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet on a lot or plot that abuts a minor street or a marginal access service street.
(b) There shall be a front yard having a depth of 35 feet on a lot or plot that abuts thoroughfare as shown on the adopted City Thoroughfares Plan.
(c) There shall be a front yard on each street side of a corner lot. No accessory buildings shall project beyond the front yard line on either street.
(3) Side yard regulations. No side yard shall be required, except as follows: no building shall be located within 20 feet of any side lot line abutting any of the classes of residence districts.
(4) Rear yard regulations. No rear yard shall be required, except as follows: no building shall be located within 25 feet of any rear lot line abutting a lot in any of the classes of residence districts.
(5) Lot area, width and depth regulations. No minimum lot area, width or depth shall be required, however, the lot size shall be adequate to meet the setback, yard and other requirements of this chapter.
(6) Lot coverage regulations. Not more than 50% of the lot area shall be occupied by buildings.
(Ord. 266, passed 5- -2008)