(A) Purpose. Uses located in this district encompass light and heavy industrial activities. Heavy industrial activities are generally major operations and extensive in character, and require large sites, open storage and service areas, quick access to regional transportation, and generate nuisances such as smoke, noise, vibrations, dust, glare, air pollution and water pollution. Heavy industrial uses should be located away from residential and commercial uses. Light industrial uses are relatively clean, quiet and free of smoke, noise, color or dust.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) All uses permitted in the Commercial Convenience and Commercial General Districts, except for residential uses;
(2) Detached or attached offices for employees or guests of the facility. Service facilities for the offices shall be completely within the building and shall not display any exterior advertising;
(3) Farm buildings and structures;
(4) Public and private utilities;
(5) Mass transportation terminals, except for truck terminals;
(6) Recreation areas established for the convenience and use of employees of the facility;
(7) Temporary buildings and structures incidental to the development of land or buildings, provided they are removed at the termination of development or construction;
(8) Radio and television towers, and studios;
(9) Assembly operations for pre-manufactured parts;
(10) The canning, bottling, processing and packaging of food;
(11) The manufacture of portable household appliances, electric hand tools, electric motors, electric and neon signs, jewelry, leather products, pharmaceuticals, medicines, cosmetics, optical goods, recording instruments, mattresses, cans and non-glass containers, cabinets, communication equipment, office equipment and cloth products;
(12) Warehouse and distribution operations;
(13) Machine, welding and tool and die shops;
(14) Animal clinics and veterinary clinics;
(15) Industrial environmental management activities, excluding sanitary landfills primarily used for the management of municipal solid waste; and
(16) Construction and trucking contractor operations.
(C) Special uses. The following special uses may be permitted, depending on approval by the County Plan Commission:
(1) Arsenal;
(2) Central mixing plant for mortar, plaster, concrete, paving material or asphalt;
(3) Dehydration plant;
(4) Fertilizer manufacturing;
(5) Grain elevator and storage;
(6) Cement lime ingredient, lime, gypsum, plaster;
(7) Petroleum refinery and distillation;
(8) Smelting of ore or metal;
(9) Soy bean processing plants;
(10) Wholesale or bulk storage of gasoline or other petroleum products;
(11) Railroad storage yards or shops;
(12) Junk, automobile or salvage yards;
(13) Meat packing plants;
(14) Sanitary landfills, reduction or incineration of trash, garbage, offal or dead animals;
(15) Fat rendering; and
(16) Manufacture of acid, alcohol, ammonia, bleaching powder, celluloid, chlorine, explosives, gas, glue, pyroxylin or notrocellulose.
(D) Development standards. The Industrial District is subject to the following development standards.
(1) Minimum lot area: one acre, building coverage shall not exceed 30% of the lot area (per building).
(2) Minimum lot width: 100 feet.
(3) Maximum height of building:
(a) Twenty five feet for principal buildings; and
(b) Twenty-five feet for accessory buildings.
(4) Minimum front yard: 100 feet.
(5) Minimum rear and side yard: 20 feet in nonresidential districts and 100 feet if a dwelling abuts the principal building.
(6) Minimum setbacks on any side of lot abutting freeway and arterial:
(a) All sides facing freeway: 200 feet; and
(b) All sides facing arterial: 120 feet.
(7) Storage: all materials or products shall be kept within enclosed fencing or buildings. Storage of materials within the enclosure shall not exceed the height of the wall, fence or vegetative screen. The total area devoted to outside storage shall not exceed 25% of the total gross area of the enclosed structure.
(8) Screening: where a front, side or rear yard abuts a dwelling or residential zone, a masonry wall, solid wood fence or continuous hedge or row of shrubbery or evergreen trees shall be provided along or within 20 feet of the zone lot line. Such screening shall be at least six feet high at time of planting or construction. Shrubs or trees must be spaced to block view year around.
(9) Additional commitments may be required by the Plan Commission where certain industrial uses present site developments circumstances that are unique, unsightly, dangerous, noisy or other reasons deemed necessary by the Commission due to the great diversity of uses permitted under this district.
(10) No abandoned, junked, inoperable or derelict vehicles, machinery, farm machinery, equipment or miscellaneous scrap or building debris may be stored in front yards.
(11) Any portion of a pond or pond dam shall be set back 15 feet from any property line.
(Ord. passed 7-20-1992; Ord. 1994-6-20-2, passed 6-20-1994; Ord. 2003-07-07-1, passed 7-7-2003)