(A) Purposes. The industrial district is established for the following purposes:
(1) To accommodate wholesale and warehouse activities and industrial operations whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the districts and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts;
(2) To permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material as long as such use has no adverse external effects such as noise or odor which extend beyond the property line of the site;
(3) To protect against fire and explosions, pollution and other environmental hazards;
(4) To protect, as far as possible, against congestion;
(5) To promote the most desirable use of land and direction, of building development in accord with the forthcoming Comprehensive Plan of the city; and
(6) To promote stability of industrial development; to strengthen the economic base of the city; to protect the character of the district; to conserve the value of land and buildings; and to protect the city’s tax base.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding or processing of previously prepared materials are conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. The portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding or processing shall be total obscured by a buffer on those sides abutting R-1 through R-4 Districts, and C-1 and C-2 Districts. The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware, cutlery or other similar products; or bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal and yarns; clay, toys, small rubber products; electrical appliances and/or equipment; manufacture and repair of electric or neon signs, sheet metal products including heating and ventilating equipment; and all public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses;
(2) Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses, including portable buildings; and
(3) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to those principal uses permitted subject to any and all provisions of ordinances relating to the use of property within the city.
(C) Conditional uses.
(1) The residence of a watchman or caretaker employed on the premises;
(2) Amusement parks, circus or carnival grounds, commercial, amusement or recreation developments or tents or other temporary structures used for temporary purposes;
(3) Facilities for railroads or those utilities holding a franchise under the city; and
(D) Required conditions. gasoline service stations or retail outlets where gasoline products are sold, drive-through businesses and veterinary hospitals shall be subject to the same limitations as set forth in § 156.049 of this chapter.
(E) Prohibited uses.
(1) Unless otherwise grandfathered, any building erected or land used for other than one or more of the preceding uses;
(2) Any use of property that does not meet the area requirements of this district; exceeds the maximum height requirements or density per gross acre; and
(3) Those uses which, in the opinion of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council, would be detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of the citizens of the city or to adjacent developments.
(F) Requirements. All uses in this district shall meet the area requirements of § 156.087 of this chapter.
(Ord. 2016-07, passed 8-9-2016)