(A) Intent. This District is designed to provide for a wide range of industrial and related uses.
(B) Permitted principal uses and structures. The following shall be permitted as uses by right:
(1) Agriculture, excluding the expansion of existing or development of commercial livestock facilities/operations;
(2) Animal care;
(3) Automobile sales and services;
(4) Automotive wash facilities;
(5) Bottling works;
(6) Building material sales and ready-mix concrete plants;
(7) Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing, or sheet metal shops;
(8) Grain storage;
(9) Construction sales and services;
(10) Dry cleaning and/or laundry plants;
(11) Farm implementation sales and services;
(12) Farm produce sales;
(13) Food service, restaurants and taverns;
(14) Freight and truck terminals;
(15) Frozen food lockers;
(16) Furniture warehouses;
(17) Garden centers and nurseries;
(18) Groceries, retail and wholesale;
(19) Light manufacturing operations, providing that such use is not noxious by reason of vibration or noise beyond the confines of the building, or by the emission of particulate, fumes, gas, odor, or smoke;
(20) Machinery sales and storage lots;
(21) Mini-storage facilities;
(22) Mobile and modular home sales and manufacturing;
(23) Newspaper publishing plants;
(24) Public and quasi-public uses of an educational, recreational or religious type including public and parochial elementary schools and junior high schools, high schools; private non-profit schools, churches, parsonages, and other religious institutions; parks and playgrounds;
(25) Public utility and public service uses;
(26) Transportation warehousing;
(27) Warehouse or storage houses;
(28) Wholesale sales and services; and
(29) Any similar uses that are determined by the Board of Trustees after referral to and recommendation by the Planning Commission to be of an industrial use similar to the above listed uses.
(C) Permitted accessory uses. Accessory uses and structures normally appurtenant to permitted uses and structures.
(1) Alternative energy systems to supplement public utility service in conformance with § 151.064;
(2) Junk and salvage yard (in conformance with 151.063);
(3) Recycling center;
(4) Ethanol and/or alcohol plants; and
(5) Landfills and sanitary landfills (in conformance with § 151.062).
(E) Prohibited uses and structures. All other uses and structures which are not specifically permitted or not permissible as special uses shall be prohibited from the I Industrial District.
(F) Height and area regulations. The maximum height and minimum area regulations shall be as follows:
(1) Generally:
Lot Area (Sq. Ft.) | Lot Width (Feet) | Required Front Yard (Feet) | Required Side Yard (Feet) | Required Rear Yard (Feet) | Height (Feet) | |
Permitted uses | 10,000 | 50 | 35 | 0, 10 when abutting residential district | 45 | 35 |
(H) Fence regulations. Fences within the I-1 Industrial District shall be in conformance with the provisions of § 151.117.
(I) Sign regulations. Signs within the I-1 Industrial District shall be in conformance with the provisions of § 151.118.
(J) Use limitations. All operations, activities, and storage shall be conducted entirely inside of a building, or buildings, unless the nearest point of such operation or activity is more than 200 feet from the boundary of any other zoning district other than an I District and except that storage may be maintained outside the building and side yards or rear yards of such storage area is separated from public streets and other property by screening of not less than six feet in height. If a lot in an Industrial District adjoins a residential district, screening shall be provided at the lot lines sufficient to protect, on a year-round basis, the privacy of adjoining residential uses.
(Ord. passed 8- -2010)