(A) Intent. Light and Heavy Industrial Districts and their regulations are established herein in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) To provide an appropriate and convenient districts sufficient areas for carrying on research, providing commercial services, manufacturing and distributing goods to serve the community, to promote employment and to strengthen the economy of the community;
(2) To provide Light Industrial Districts in appropriate and convenient areas for business, contracting, storage, distribution and transportation services, and related types of minor production processes;
(3) To provide Heavy Industrial Districts for those products and processes which normally require a large amount of motor vehicle trucking for transportation of the raw materials and finished products, but in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable influences can be controlled;
(4) To improve the general environment by prohibiting dwellings, institutions and public facilities in the industrial districts, and by so doing, make land more readily accessible for industry;
(5) To protect adjacent residential districts by restricting the types of manufacturing uses in the surrounding areas to only those not creating objectionable influences beyond their district boundaries and by separating and insulating them from the most intense manufacturing activities; and
(6) To protect manufacturing and related development against congestion insofar as is possible and appropriate in each area by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land and by providing off-street parking and loading facilities.
(B) Light Industrial District use regulations (M-1). Buildings and land shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained, in whole or in part, in any Light Industrial District only for the uses set forth in the following regulations:
(1) Main uses permitted.
(a) Office uses as permitted in any Local Business District (all other business, service, institutional and residential uses are not permitted);
(b) Laboratories: experimental, research and testing all types of basic and applied research of product design and development, including, but not limited to, the construction and operation of small-scale experimental and pilot plant operation;
(c) Metal production: cutting, electric, gas and ultrasonic welding; grinding, machining and finishing as incidental component operations, (but not as a single operation) only in the production and/or assembly of products which have a high value in relation to bulk, such as automotive and aircraft parts; electrical and electronic equipment, motors, lamps, fixtures and clocks; hardware, cutlery and kitchen utensils; musical and scientific instruments; medical, orthopedic and photographic instruments and equipment; machine tools, lathes, presses, stamping machines, woodworking machines and screw machines; and sporting goods, athletic equipment, toys;
(d) Non-metal production: clothing and other textile products; compounding of pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, drugs and toiletries; plastic extrusion, molding and fabricating of panels, sheets, tubes and rods; printing, publishing and engraving; fabrication of wood furniture, cabinets and other wood products limited to sash, doors, cabinets, wall boards, partitions and prefabricated house panels;
(e) Distribution operations: the storage and distribution of those products which may be produced in any Light Industrial District, and the storage and distribution of foods and beverages; postal stations; telephone exchange; electrical distribution substation;
(f) Transportation services: the storage and maintenance of trucks and loading, unloading equipment for the purpose of transporting materials and equipment upon highways in general;
(g) General services, sales and storage establishments if conducted wholly within enclosed buildings to the following extent:
1. Cleaning establishments - laundries, dyeing, dry cleaning, carpet cleaning, towel supply and auto wash provided entire waiting line is accommodated on lot;
2. Food and drink preparation - bakeries, canning, freezing, refrigeration, roasting, ice manufacturing, bottling works and creameries;
3. Repair establishments - automobile engines, body and paint, electrical and household appliances;
4. Repair and sale of buses, trucks and machinery;
5. Shops and offices of contractors - carpentry, electrical, masonry, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, painting, ornamental iron, roofing and sheet metal; packing and crating, and monument works;
6. Storage yards and sale of new lumber and other building materials; public utility materials and equipment;
7. Warehouses, other storage establishments, and parcel delivery stations provided loading and off-loading facilities are entirely within an enclosed building;
8. Veterinarians’ offices, animal hospitals, and kennels; and
9. Commercial greenhouses.
(h) The use of the sales and service of motorcycles.
(2) Similar main uses permitted. Any other office, research, service, wholesale, storage and product use not listed above or in any industrial district if considered and found similar by the Planning Commission according to standards set forth in § 155.50(H); and
(3) Accessory uses permitted. Storage of materials and products within buildings and processes clearly accessory to the main use, provided such a use has no injurious effect on adjoining residential districts.
(C) Heavy Industrial District use regulations (M-2). Buildings and land shall be used, and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained, in whole or in part, in any Heavy Industrial District only for the uses set forth in the following regulations:
(1) Main uses permitted.
(a) Office, laboratories, production, distribution and service uses permitted in any Light Industrial District (all other business, service, institutional and residential uses are not permitted);
(b) Manufacturing processes conducted wholly within an enclosed building; cutting, forging, stamping, casting, extrusion, drilling, machining, welding, brazing, soldering, sawing, cleaning, shot and sand blasting, grinding, enameling, painting, galvanizing finishing, heat treating and rust proofing, as a component process in connection with the production and assembly of products;
(c) Other industrial processes and uses including blending, mixing and packaging of disinfectants, fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, ink, soap, detergents, and related household and industrial chemical compounds, but excluding the preparation of any primary acids or other primary chemicals; making of ferrous metal and metal alloy products from brass, bronze, pewter, tin, lead or aluminum and the smelting or founding of such metals; and
(d) Bulk distribution station for gasoline and oil and reclamation of ferrous metal products may be permitted provided a conditional use permit is granted in accordance with the standards set forth in § 155.50(G).
(2) Similar main uses permitted. Any other manufacturing use not listed above or in any industrial district if considered and found similar by the Planning Commission according to standards as set forth in § 155.50(H).
(3) Accessory uses permitted.
(a) Storage. Storage of materials and products, and processes clearly accessory to the main use;
(b) Off-street parking and loading facilities. Off-street parking and loading facilities as required and set forth in § 155.30;
(c) Signs. Industrial, project, real estate, identification and directional, as set forth in § 155.31;
(d) Area and land coverage regulations. No minimum lot area or lot width is required in Light and Heavy Industrial Districts. Buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than 50% of any lot in a Light Industrial District and 75% of any lot in a Heavy Industrial District;
(e) Yard regulations. Yards shall be provided for every main and accessory building in industrial districts in accordance with the following schedule:
Use | Front Yard and Setback (ft.) | Side Yard | Rear Yard | ||
Abutting Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Non- Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Non- Resident. Dist. (ft.) | ||
Use | Front Yard and Setback (ft.) | Side Yard | Rear Yard | ||
Abutting Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Non- Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Resident. Dist. (ft.) | Abutting Non- Resident. Dist. (ft.) | ||
District: Light | |||||
Offices | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Production | 30 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Distribution | 30 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
District: Heavy Industrial | |||||
Offices | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Manufacturing | 30 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
(f) Height regulations.
1. Main and accessory buildings in any industrial district may be erected to a height not exceeding the width of the side or rear yard adjoining a one- or two-family residential district or mobile home district, or to a height not exceeding two times the width of the side or rear yard adjoining a multi-family residential or business district; and
2. Chimneys, spires, cupolas, domes, towers, flag poles, water tanks, radio or television antennas, monuments and other mechanical appurtenances located upon or constituted as an integral part of a main building shall not exceed a height of 100 feet above finished grade.
(g) Performance standards. Any use established in any industrial district after the effective date of this chapter shall comply with the performance standards set forth hereinafter for the district in which such use shall be located as a precedence to occupancy and use. Any use already established in such districts shall not be altered, added to or otherwise modified so as to conflict with, or further conflict with the performance standards set forth hereinafter for the district in which such use is located as a precedence to further use. Statements may be required by the Planning Commission from the owner stating such uses comply or will comply. In case of doubt, the village shall select and arrange for an independent survey by a professional engineer qualified in the particular field and the costs for the services shall be paid by the owner.
1. Enclosure. All permitted main and accessory uses and operations except off-street parking shall be performed wholly within the limits established in this section. All raw materials, finished products, mobile and other equipment shall be stored within said units.
2. Fire and explosive hazards. The storage, handling and use of flammable or explosive materials shall be permitted only in structures having incombustible exterior walls, and all operations in connection therewith shall be provided with adequate safety and protective devices against hazards of fire and explosion as well as with adequate firefighting and suppression equipment and devices standard to the operation involved.
3. Dust-smoke. The emission of smoke, soot, fly “ash” fumes, dust and other types of air pollution borne by the wind shall be controlled so that the rate of emission and quantity deposited at any other district shall not be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, welfare or adversely affect property values.
4. Odorous matter. The emission of odorous matter in such quantities as to produce a public nuisance or hazard beyond the lot occupied by the use shall not be permitted.
5. Toxic or noxious matter. The emission of toxic, noxious or corrosive fumes or gases which would be demonstrably injurious to property, vegetation, animals or human health at or beyond the boundaries of the lot occupied by the use shall not be permitted.
6. Noise. The sound pressure level of any operation on a lot, other than the operation of auto-calls, bells, motor vehicles, sirens or whistles, shall not exceed the average intensity of the street traffic noise at the nearest residential district, and no sound shall be objectionable due to intermittence, beat, frequency or shrillness.
7. Vibration. Vibrations shall not be permitted beyond the lot line occupied by the use which would be perceptible without the aid of instruments.
8. Radioactive or electrical disturbances. Radioactive or electrical disturbances shall not be created which would adversely affect any form of life or equipment at or beyond the boundaries of the lot occupied by the use.
9. Incineration facilities. Incineration facilities emitting neither excessive smoke nor odor shall be provided, located within the main building. No garbage, rubbish, waste matter or empty containers shall be permitted outside of limits established in this section.
10. Waste materials. Liquid wastes shall not be discharged into an open reservoir, stream or other open body of water or a sewer unless treated or controlled so that the amount of solid substances, oils, grease, acids, alkaline and other chemicals shall not exceed the amount permitted by other codes of the state, county or village.
(H) Parking. Parking in any industrial districts shall be in accordance with regulations set forth in § 155.30.
(I) Sign regulations. Signs in any industrial district shall be designed, erected, altered, moved or maintained, in whole or in part, in accordance with the regulations set forth in § 155.31.
(Ord. 656-70, passed 2-16-1970; Ord. 1415-11, passed 2-22-2011)