(A) Intent. The provisions of this district are intended to apply to an area in close proximity to major transportation facilities and which can serve general manufacturing, storage and distribution needs of the city and region. Lot sizes and other restrictions are intended to minimize adverse impacts to adjacent properties.
(B) Principal uses and structures:
(1) Warehousing.
(2) Wholesaling.
(3) Dry cleaning and laundry plants, printing plants, welding shops, machine shops, taxidermists and similar service and repair establishments and uses.
(4) Light manufacturing, processing and assembly including precision manufacturing, electrical machinery, instrumentation, bottling plants, dairy products plants, bakeries, fruit packing, and similar uses.
(5) Building materials supply and storage, provided that any outside display and/or storage area shall be screened on all sides to avoid any deleterious impact on adjacent properties; includes contractor storage yards.
(6) Automotive, truck, major recreational equipment and mobile home sales, storage and repair establishment including, body shops, dry docking facilities, paint shops, upholstery shops and similar uses provided that outside storage of vehicles not for sale shall be effectively screened on four (4) sides so as to avoid off-site visual impacts.
(7) Vocational and trade schools.
(8) Veterinary hospitals and clinics, including boarding of animals.
(9) Radio or television transmitter, towers or broadcasting facilities.
(10) Research and development facilities.
(11) Public utility equipment and facilities.
(12) Freight handling and transportation terminals.
(13) Printing, publishing and similar uses.
(14) Textile and apparel manufacturing, processing and storage.
(15) Lumber and wood products manufacturing, processing and storage.
(16) Public uses.
(17) Communication towers and facilities.
(18) Salvage Yards.
(19) Medical Recycling Facility.
(20) Self-storage facilities.
(C) Accessory uses and structures:
(1) Customary accessory uses clearly incidental and subordinate to one (1) or more principal used.
(2) Retail sales of products manufactured, processed or stored on the premises, provided the sales area constitutes no more than 15% of the total area of the space occupied by the business.
(3) Offices clearly accessory to one (1) or more principal uses.
(D) Conditional uses:
(1) Manufacturing, assembly and processing uses or facilities not specifically provided as a principal use including block and concrete plants, furniture factories, food processing, citrus processing plants, salvage yards, and canneries and similar uses.
(2) Storage of liquefied petroleum products.
(3) Fabricated metal products.
(4) Chemicals and similar products.
(5) Automotive fuel tanks and pumps subject to the following provisions:
(a) Location of facilities. Gasoline/ fuel pumps, storage tanks and other service island equipment shall be at least twenty (20) feet from all property lines, fifteen (15) feet from any building and one hundred (100) feet from the nearest residentially zoned land. No gasoline/fuel pump, storage tank or ether equipment shall be located closer than one thousand (1,000) feet from any municipal or public supply well.
(b) The use of fuel pumps shall be strictly limited to the owner of the property. Sales to members of the public in general or to any private individual are hereby strictly prohibited.
(c) The proposed use will not constitute a nuisance or hazard because of vehicular traffic movement, delivery of fuel movement, noise or fume generation.
(d) Development and operation of the fuel pumps and attendant storage tanks shall be in compliance with §§ 176.01 et seq.
(6) Planned industrial developments.
(7) Crematoriums.
(8) Corrections facilities subject to the following:
(a) Minimum area required: 20 acres.
(b) Shall not be located within 1,000 feet of any residentially zoned property.
(9) Smoke-producing industries, such as paper mills, rubber mills or regional incinerators, provided the land where such facility is operated shall be located no less than one-half (½) mile from the closest right-of-way line of Interstate 95.
(E) Prohibited uses and structures: All uses not specifically or provisionally permitted herein.
(F) Lot and structure requirements:
(1) Minimum lot area — thirty thousand (30,000) square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width — one hundred and fifty (150) feet.
(3) Minimum lot depth — two hundred (200) feet.
(4) Maximum building coverage — fifty percent (50%).
(5) Minimum floor area — None.
(6) Maximum height — one hundred (100) feet.
(7) Minimum yard requirements:
(a) Front — forty (40) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the front yard except within ten (10) feet of the front lot line.
(b) Side interior — twenty (20) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the side yard except within ten (10) feet of the side lot line.
(c) Side corner — twenty-five (25) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the side corner yard except within ten (10) feet of the side corner lot line.
(d) Rear — twenty-five (25) feet.
(8) An eight (8) foot high completely opaque masonry wall, or wood fence shall be provided along the entire length of any side or rear property line abating property zoned residential. Landscaping shall be provided in accordance with the landscape requirements of this chapter.
(G) Lot and structure requirements for Salvage Yards:
(1) Minimum lot area — five (5) acres.
(2) Minimum lot width — two hundred (200) feet.
(3) Minimum lot depth — three hundred (300) feet.
(4) Maximum building coverage — fifty percent (50%).
(5) Minimum floor area — None.
(6) Maximum height — fifty (50) feet.
(7) Minimum yard requirements:
(a) Front — forty (40) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the front yard except within ten (10) feet of the front lot line.
(b) Side interior — twenty (20) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the side yard except within ten (10) feet of the side lot line.
(c) Side corner — twenty-five (25) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the side corner yard except within ten (10) feet of the side corner lot line.
(d) Rear — twenty-five (25) feet.
(8) A six (6) foot high completely opaque masonry wall, or wood fence shall be provided along the entire length of any side or rear property line abating property zoned residential. Landscaping shall be provided in accordance with the landscape requirements of this chapter.
('74 Code, § 25-138) (Ord. 89-08, passed 4-27-89; Ord. 94- 33, passed 6-16-94; Am. Ord. 94- 34, passed 6-16-94; Am. Ord. 94- 51, passed 11-16-94; Am. Ord. 95- 44, passed 11-2-95; Am. Ord. 98- 20, passed 7-16-98; Am. Ord. 98- 31, passed 9-17-98; Am. Ord. 2015-59, passed 12-1-15; Am. Ord. 2016-17, passed 4-21-16; Am. Ord. 2023-17, passed 4-20-23)