(A) Industrial district defined.
(1) For the purposes 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 manmade, in anticipation of enhanced economic value or usefulness.
(2) In addition to such activity, certain types of commercial operations of sale, 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.
(B) 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 commission through the zoning administrator assurances that it will comply with all federal, state, and local regulations with regard to air pollutants, noise pollution, and solid waste and hazardous waste disposal prior to the issuance of building and construction permits.
(2) Sales firms. Sales lots, display and stocking areas for the following types of business are deemed to be suitable for industrial districts: automobiles, trailers, and mobile homes, farm implements, lumber and building materials, and wholesale of jobbing firms.
(3) Service establishments. The following types of service establishments are designed as suitable for industrial districts: automobile rental agencies, animal hospitals, veterinary clinics, and associated kennels, motorcycle repair, and carpet cleaning.
(4) Warehousing and storage and truck and freight terminal. Warehousing and storage facilities and truck and freight terminals as a general category are permitted in industrial districts.
(5) Auto and other junkyards. Open storage is permitted in industrial districts. The board of adjustment shall require screening of the area by fences or other approved method so storage is not visible from public ways. All junkyard permits shall be conditional and granted year to year and the board of adjustment may from time to time regulate use.
(6) Public and private mini-storage units. Public and private mini-storage units shall be permitted subject to approval of structure by the board of adjustments.
(7) Public facilities. Public water and sewage treatment plants and other public facilities and utility plants are permitted in industrial districts.
(C) Conditionally permitted uses requiring board of adjustment authorization.
(1) The following manufactures require the written approval of the board of adjustment for conditional permitting in an industrial zone: abattoirs, 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 crushing, sawmills, sulphur, sulfuric acid and derivatives, tar distillation and terra cotta.
(2) Other conditional uses include: refuse dump, scrap iron and salvage yards, junk car lots, coal washing, and wrecking material yards.
(D) Accessory buildings and uses. Any accessory building or use customarily incident to the above permitted or conditionally permitted use shall be permitted.
(E) Required conditions.
(1) On lots adjacent to a residential district, all buildings shall be located so as to provide a minimum side yard of fifty (50) feet on the side adjoining the residential property.
(2) Loading docks. Where possible, loading docks should be located so as not to front on a public way or roadway.
(3) 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.
(4) 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 building erected thereon except as 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 the city agrees to accept its sewage or the industry constructs its own approved facilities.
(F) Lot area, frontage and yard requirements.
(1) Dimensional minimums:
Lot area | None |
Frontage | None |
Front depth | 40 feet |
Side yards | 25 feet |
Rear depth | 25 feet |
(2) No yard shall be required for that part of a lot which abuts upon a railroad siding.
(3) All buildings on corner lots adjoining a residential district shall be so located as to conform with corner lot requirements of such district.
(G) Signs and billboards. As permitted in § 80.202.
(Ord. 88-12 Art. 4 (4.090-4.096), 1988)