In a General 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 the Zoning Ordinance:
(a) Any principal use first permitted in an I-1 District.
(b) Heating and electric power generating plants, and all necessary uses.
(c) Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products which shall conform with the performance standards adopted by the Municipality under separate ordinance.
(d) Junkyards, provided such are entirely enclosed within a building or within an eight-foot obscuring wall and provided further that one property line abuts a railroad right of way. There shall be no burning on the site and all industrial processes involving the use of equipment for cutting, compressing or packaging shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.
(e) Any of the following processing, production or manufacturing uses not including storage of finished products provided that they are located not less than 800 feet distant from any Residential District and not less than 300 feet distant from any other district.
(1) Incineration of garbage or refuse when conducted within an approved and enclosed incinerator plant.
(2) Blast furnace, steel furnace, bloomery or rolling mill.
(3) Manufacture of corrosive acid or alkali, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris.
(4) Petroleum or other inflammable liquids, production, refining or storage.
(5) Smelting of copper, iron or zinc ore.
(6) Slaughtering of animals or food processing.
(f) Any other use which shall be determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals, after recommendation from the Planning Commission, to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses in this section. The Board may impose any required setback and/or performance standards so as to insure public health, safety and general welfare.
(g) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses. (Ord. 82-1970. Passed 11-2-70.)
(h) Class I, II and III solid waste composting facilities.
(Ord. 139-1994. Passed 7-19-94.)