For the purpose of this chapter, INDUSTRY is defined as the activity of assembly, conversion or change of form or appearance of physical materials or chemical elements, natural or human-made, in anticipation of enhanced economic value or usefulness. In addition to such activity, certain types of commercial operations of sales, service and warehousing are deemed to be especially suited for location in an industrial district. Commercial or business enterprises other than those specifically noted may be permitted with the approval of the Board of Adjustment.
(A) Permitted uses.
(1) Manufacturing. Permitted uses include any manufacturing activity: assembly, fabrication or processing, which does not, by its nature create a public nuisance. A new industry locating in an industrial district must furnish to the Planning Commission through the Chairperson of the Planning Commission or his or her designee, assurances that it will comply with all federal, state and local regulations with regard to air pollution, noise pollution and solid waste and hazardous waste disposal prior to the issuance of building and construction permits.
(2) Sale firms. Sales lots, display and stocking areas for the following types of businesses are deemed to be suitable for industrial districts: automobiles; trailers and mobile homes; farm implements; lumber and building materials; and wholesale or jobbing firms.
(3) Service establishments. The following types of service establishments are designated as suitable for industrial districts: automobile rental agencies; animal hospitals, veterinary clinics and associated kennels; motorcycle repair; and carpet cleaning.
(4) Warehousing and storage. Warehousing and storage facilities as a general category are permitted in industrial districts.
(5) Public facilities. Public water and sewage treatment plants and other public facilities and utility plants are permitted in industrial districts.
(B) Conditionally permitted uses requiring Board of Adjustment authorization. The following manufactures require the written approval of the Board of Adjustment for conditional permitting In an industrial zone: slaughter house; acids; acetylene gas; refining; blast furnaces; bricks; charcoal; chemicals; creosote treatment and production; exterminator or insect poisons; rendering; fertilizer; leather curing and tanning; lime; monuments; plaster of Paris; quarrying, rock crashing, sawmills, sulfur, sulfuric acid and derivatives; tar distillation and terra cotta. Other conditional uses include: refuse dump; scrap iron and salvage yards; junk car lots; coal washing; and wrecking material yards.
(C) Accessory buildings and uses. Any accessory building or use customarily incidental to the above permitted or conditionally permitted use shall be permitted.
(D) Required conditions. On lots adjacent to a residential district, all buildings shall be located so as to provide a minimum side yard of 500 feet on the side adjoining the residential property.
(1) Loading docks. Where possible, loading docks should be located so as not to front on a public way or roadway.
(2) Storage facilities. No materials or supplies shall be stored or permitted to remain on any part of the property outside of the buildings constructed thereon without proper screening and adequate distance from adjoining properties.
(3) Waste disposal. No waste material or refuse may be dumped upon, or be permitted to remain upon any part of an industrial site outside of the buildings erected thereon, except as it may be required for pretreatment of waste prior to its being discharged into the municipal sewage system. No property shall be used for industrial purposes unless an existing treatment facility agrees to accept its sewage or the industry constructs its own approved facilities.
(E) Lot area, frontage and yard requirements.
Dimensional Minimums | |
Front depth | 45 feet |
Frontage | None |
Lot area | None |
Rear depth | 250 feet |
Side yards | 250 feet |
(1) No yard shall be required for that part of a lot which abuts upon a railroad siding.
(2) All buildings on corner lots adjoining a residential district shall be so located as to conform to corner lot requirements of said district.
(Ord. 20.920-1, passed 3- -2020)