(a) Purpose. GI General Industrial District is established to protect sites identified as being most suitable for industrial uses from being developed for business and residential uses; to provide adequate space, in appropriate locations, for the attraction and expansion of industry; to protect areas for industrial uses which benefit from their location adjacent to major thoroughfares or railroads designed to handle large and continuous volumes of traffic to and from such uses; and to ensure that manufacturing and warehousing uses shall be so operated as to be free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation and other objectionable chemical or biological influences.
(b) Permitted Uses. The following uses are permitted in an GI General Industrial District subject to review and approval of a site plan by the Planning Commission as required in Section 1145.28.
(1) Automobile assembly plants.
(2) Building Contractors.
(3) Cable TV Stations.
(4) Commercial cleaning establishments.
(5) Lumber storage yards.
(6) Manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as, but not limited to: stone, granite, plastic, leather, paper, felt, fiber, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, precious or semi-precious metals, sheet metal and textiles.
(7) Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices.
(8) Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of bakery goods, candy, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery.
(9) Photographic processing establishments.
(10) Public utility and exchange buildings.
(11) Radio and Television Stations.
(12) Railroad transfer and storage yards; and freight terminals.
(13) Tool, die and machine shops.
(14) Trucking Facilities.
(15) Warehousing and wholesale establishments.
(Ord. 01-50. Passed 12-6-01.)
(16) Data Centers. (Ord. 24-02. Passed 2-7-24.)
(17) (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsection (b)(16) was repealed by Ordinance 10-34, passed August 5, 2010.)
(18) Any of the uses permitted in an IP Industrial Park District, B Business District, OS Office Service District.
(19) Any of the uses permitted in the Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Floating Overlay District (AMTFO).
(Ord. 07-04. Passed 2-15-07; Ord. 24-02. Passed 2-7-24.)
(c) Conditionally Permitted Uses.
(1) Mini-warehouses as regulated in Section 1143.03(g).
(Ord. 01-50. Passed 12-6-01.)
(2) Home Occupations. (Ord. 04-03. Passed 1-22-04.)
(3) Any of the uses permitted in an R-1 Low Density Residential District and R-2 Medium Density Residential District.
(Ord. 07-04. Passed 2-15-07.)
(4) Sexually Oriented Businesses. (Ord. 10-34. Passed 8-5-10.)
(5) Wind Turbine/Electrical Generation Towers as regulated in Section 1143.03(n). (Ord. 11-02. Passed 1-20-11.)
(d) Accessory Uses. Accessory uses including, but not limited to:
(1) Accessory uses, buildings or structures customarily incidental to any permitted or conditionally permitted use.
(4) Radio, microwave tower and telecommunications equipment siting as regulated in Section 1145.33. (Ord. 01-50. Passed 12-6-01.)
(5) Rooftop solar power collection systems.
(6) Rooftop wind turbines intended to reduce consumption of electrical utility power. (Ord. 11-02. Passed 1-20-11.)
(Ord. 24-02. Passed 2-7-24.)
(e) Density, Lot Area and Dimensional Requirements. See Chapter 1141, “Schedule of Standard District Regulations,” limiting the minimum lot size, maximum density permitted, minimum yard setback requirements and the height and bulk of buildings.
(f) Supplementary Regulations:
(1) Outdoor storage areas used to display heavy equipment or other merchandise shall be located in the rear yard enclosed on all sides by an obscuring fence or wall at least six feet (6’) in height.
(2) A greenbelt twenty five feet (25’) wide and six feet (6’) in height shall be provided along the outside face of the fence or wall along those side and rear lot lines that abut a residential lot or residential use.
(Ord. 01-50. Passed 12-6-01.)