§ 153.048 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT.

   This district is designed to provide suitable space for light industrial uses which operate in a safe, non-objectionable, and efficient manner, and which are compatible in appearance with, and require a minimum of buffering measures from, adjoining non-industrial zoning districts. These uses generate a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air, and water pollutants, and fire, explosive, and radioactive hazards, and other harmful or obnoxious matter.

   (A)   Permitted uses.

      (1)   Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouses;

      (2)   Vehicle repair garages, but not including auto junk yards;

      (3)   Trucking terminals;

      (4)   Farm machinery and equipment sales and repair;

      (5)   Contractor’s yard;

      (6)   Lumberyard;

      (7)   Industrial office buildings;

      (8)   General service and repair establishments including dyeing, cleaning, or laundry works and upholstery or appliance repair;

      (9)   Assembly and manufacture, from prefabricated parts, of household appliances, electronic products, machinery and hardware products, and similar products; or the processing or assembling of parts for production of finished equipment;

      (10)   Skilled trade services including plumbing, electric, heating, printing, and painting establishments;

      (11)   Research and testing laboratories;

      (12)   Essential services and structures;

      (13)   On-site and off-site signs only in accordance with the regulations as specified in §§ 153.069 and 153.070;

      (14)   Medical marijuana caregiver grow operation (subject to the provisions of § 153.097);

      (15)   Medical marijuana home use in permitted dwellings and legally nonconforming dwellings (subject to the provisions of § 153.097); and

      (16)   Mini-storage or self-storage.

   (B)   Conditional uses.

      (1)   Generally including those light manufacturing uses similar to the permitted uses in this district which do not create any more danger to health and safety in surrounding areas and which do not create any more offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, lint, odors, heat, or glare than that which is generally associated with light industries of the type specifically permitted;

      (2)   Communications towers;

      (3)   Wind energy conversion systems; and

      (4)   Adult entertainment (subject to the regulations specified in Chapter 111).

   (C)   Area, yard, height, and bulk regulations. See §§ 153.049 through 153.052.

(Ord. 5, passed 1-18-1973; Ord. 2016-1, passed 4-21-2016)