(a) Purpose. The Light Industrial District, designated as the IA District, is established to encourage the development of manufacturing and warehouse businesses which are clean, quiet, and free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, or glare, operate generally within enclosed structures, and generate little industrial traffic, and that have external physical effects that in no manner affect in a detrimental way of the surrounding Districts. This District is further designed to act as a transitional use between heavy industrial uses and other less intensive business and residential uses.
(b) Uses Permitted. The following uses, and no other, shall be deemed IA uses and permitted in all IA Districts:
Any use permitted in an RA District, RB District, CA District or a CB District. Manufacturing or assembly processes which by the nature of the materials, equipment, and process used are to a considerable measure clean, quiet and free of objectionable or hazardous elements. Permitted manufacturing or assembly process activities shall consist of the following activities and those of similar nature: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, toiletries, jewelry, pharmaceuticals, toys, novelties, musical instruments, sporting goods, small household appliances, household goods, and electronic components or equipment.
Contractor’s yards and offices.
Bottling or canning plants.
Office, laboratory, research or testing facilities.
Greenhouses.
Wholesale businesses.
Warehouses.
Public utilities.
Accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
(c) Conditional Uses. The following conditional uses shall be permitted only if expressly authorized by the Planning Commission or the Zoning Inspector:
Wireless telecommunication towers, facilities or shelters.
Any other uses deemed by the Planning Commission, with the approval of Council, to be of a nature similar as those listed in subsection (b) above.
(d) Area and Height Regulations.
(1) Height. No building may exceed 50 feet in height.
(2) Front yard. There shall be a minimum front yard setback of 25 feet, except where the lot is abutting an RA or RB District, where there shall be a minimum front yard setback of 75 feet.
(3) Rear yard. There shall be a minimum rear yard setback of 10 feet, except where the lot is abutting an RA or RB District, where there shall be a minimum rear yard setback of 50 feet.
(4) Side yard. There shall be a minimum side yard setback of 10 feet, except where the lot is abutting an RA or RB District, where there shall be a minimum side yard setback of 50 feet.
(5) Landscaping. Lots abutting an RA or RB District shall contain a 15 foot buffering strip of approved landscaping adjacent to the RA or RB District.
(e) Performance Standards. Any use within an IA District shall be conducted in accordance with the performance standards set forth in Section 1123.07(e).
(f) Parking. Parking in an IA District shall be in accordance with the regulations set forth in Section 1129.02
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(Ord. 3103-11. Passed 12-7-11.)
(Ord. 3103-11. Passed 12-7-11.)