(A) Purpose. The I-1 Light Industrial Districts are designed to accommodate uses which provide repair, storage, manufacturing, processing, wholesaling and distribution facilities and whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the District. The uses permitted are such that they will not have an undesirable or detrimental effect on adjacent residential or business districts and because of their nature, products and processes require locations separate from establishments which process or manufacture new material.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the I-1 Light Industrial District.
(1) The following basic research, design and experimental firms when conducted within a completely enclosed building:
(a) Pharmaceuticals, electrical instruments and devices.
(b) Processing of experimental film, or testing, providing no operations shall be conducted or equipment used which would create hazards or noxious or offensive conditions.
(2) The manufacturing, compounding, processing and assembly of the following products when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building having no openings on those sides of the lot where the adjacent districts are zoned for residential use.
(a) Bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, toiletries and food products; except fish, sauerkraut, yeast and the refining or rendering of fats and oils.
(b) Products from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cloth, cellophane, cork, feather, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wool and yarns.
(c) Musical instruments, toys, novelties, rubber or metal stamps and other small rubber molded products.
(d) Electrical appliances, television sets, radios, phonographs, household appliances.
(e) Tool, die, garage and machine shops.
(3) Warehouse, storage and transfer facilities, gas and electrical service buildings. Water supply and sewage disposal plants, water and gas tanks. Railroad transfer and storage tracks and freight terminal facilities.
(4) Building materials, sales yards and lumber yards provided all materials are located within a building or within an area enclosed on all sides by an obscuring fence or wall six feet in height. The extent of such wall or fence may be determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(C) Conditionally permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted subject to the conditions listed in § 154.189(C)and subject further to the approval by the Planning Commission.
(1) Restaurants or other places serving food or beverages except those having the nature of a “drive-in,” subject to § 154.189(C)(2)(t).
(2) Mini-storage units.
(3) One-family dwelling units.
(a) Residential R-1 area and height regulations shall apply.
(b) A greenbelt of 20 feet shall be provided on those sides abutting any existing industrial land use.
(D) Area and height regulations.
(1) Minimum lot area: 20,500 square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width at minimum building setback line: 100 feet.
(3) Minimum yard setback:
(a) Front yard: 50 feet.
(b) Each side yard and rear yard: each side yard and the rear yard shall be equal to at least the height of the average of the various heights of the industrial masses, excluding towers and chimneys. Where a side or rear yard abuts onto a residential district, such yard shall in no case be less than 100 feet. An obscuring fence or wall six feet in height and a 20-foot greenbelt shall be provided along those side or rear yards which abut onto a residential district.
(c) Maximum building height: 50 feet.
(`94 Code, §§ 1167.01 - 1167.04) (Ord. 26-82, passed 12-28-82; Am. Ord. 5-2000, passed 3-14-00; Am. Ord. 6-2020, passed 9-8-20) Penalty, see § 154.999