(A) Purpose. The I-2 Heavy Industrial Districts are designed to accommodate industrial uses in the fields of manufacturing, processing and fabricating, including large scale industrial operations whose external physical effects may be felt by uses located in residential and business districts. The I-2 District is regulated to be exclusively used for industrial purposes free from encroachment by residential or business development. The uses listed herein are intended to permit the manufacture, processing and compounding of semifinished and finished products from raw materials.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted within the I-2 Heavy Industrial District:
(1) Any of the uses permitted in an I-1 Light Industrial District.
(2) Contractors' equipment storage yard or plant, or storage and rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
(3) Storage and sale of grain and livestock feed, provided dust is effectively controlled during all operation.
(4) Pottery and figurines using previously pulverized clay, and kiln-fired only with gas or electricity.
(5) Welding or other metal-working or molding shop employing reciprocating hammers and presses.
(6) Bag, carpet and rug cleaning, provided equipment is installed and operated for the effective precipitation of dust.
(7) Foundry, casting lightweight nonferrous metals.
(8) Ice manufacturing or cold storage plant.
(9) Laundry, cleaning and dyeing plant.
(10) Automobile manufacturing or assembly.
(11) Boiler shops or structural steel fabricating shops.
(12) Brick, tile and terra cotta manufacturing.
(13) Cement, bituminous or asphaltic concrete mixing.
(14) Meat packing, including the slaughtering of animals.
(15) Stone and monument work employing power-driven tools.
(C) Area and height regulations.
(1) Minimum yard setback.
(a) Front yard: 50 feet.
(b) Each side yard and rear yard: each side and rear yard shall be equal to at least the height of the average of the industrial masses, excluding towers and chimneys. Where a side yard or rear yard abuts onto a residential district, such yard shall in no case be less than 150 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.
(2) Maximum building height. 100 feet.
(`94 Code, §§ 1169.01 - 1169.03) (Ord. 26-82, passed 12-28-82; Am. Ord. 10-95, passed 4-11-95; Am. Ord. 4-2000, passed 3-14-00)