(a) PURPOSE AND INTENT
. The I-2 District is intended to provide for large scale manufacturing uses consistent with the Industrial Future Land Use Category of the adopted Moline Comprehensive Plan. The District standards have been crafted and are intended to be implemented so that redevelopment and new development projects preserve and enhance the defining characteristics of the District.
(b) DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS
. The I-2 District in Moline is mapped in a few, larger industrial areas and is characterized by a variety of assembly, fabrication, processing, storage and manufacturing uses housed in buildings of various sizes, most of which are one story in height on larger lots. The District contains uses with indoor and outdoor operations. Buildings typically occupy about half of the lot area, with the other half devoted to related outdoor activities (such as storage and work yards) parking and landscape buffers. Signage consists of limited freestanding monuments or poles in addition to flush wall-mounted signs. Given the intensity of uses and site development within the District, off-site impacts from traffic generation, noise, odors, lights and vibrations are significant and need to be minimized through site layouts and building orientations designed to achieve compatibility with the adjoining lower intensity districts. Where areas in the District adjoin deep ravines or other natural features, lot sizes are larger than the minimums specified for the District as a whole or buildings and improvements clustered in order to protect these natural features and resources in accordance with Article IV of this Code. This District is mapped in an area that has adequate public facilities and services with capacity to serve the existing and projected impacts and needs of development of this magnitude.
(c) BULK STANDARDS
. Tables 35-3301.1. and 35-3301.2. list bulk standards for principal and accessory structures.
(d) LAND USE REGULATIONS
. Division 4 of this Article provides all land use regulations for this District.
(e) SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
. Article IV of this Code provides site development standards applicable to development within this District.
(f) SITE IMPROVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
. Article V, Divisions 1 through 4, of this Code provides site improvement and performance standards applicable to development within this District.