The Heavy Industrial District is primarily intended for production and assembly plants and industrial operations or services that by virtue of the external effects of their noise, odor, dust, glare, or vibration should be isolated from residential uses. Heavy industries should be located in areas with topographic features suitable for such industries and where adequate utilities and transportation are available.
(A) Permitted uses. Any use permitted in the I-1 Light Industrial District, except that no building, structure, or portion thereof shall be erected, constructed, or used for any dwelling use.
(B) Conditional uses. The following uses are special exceptions and require written approval of the Board of Adjustment. The Board may attach certain conditions to its approval which it feels are necessary to preserve and protect the character of the district in which the proposed use would locate:
(1) Abattoirs (slaughter house); acid manufacture; acetylene gas manufacture; ammonia manufacture; asphalt manufacture, refining, or storage; blast furnace, brick kiln, charcoal manufacture and pulverizing; chemical manufacture, creosote treatment and manufacture; exterminator or insect poison manufacture; fat rendering, fertilizer manufacture; flour and grain milling; gasoline storage, wholesale; junk yards; leather curing and tanning; lime manufacture; monument works; plaster of pans manufacture; quarry works; refuse dump; rock crushing; salvage storage yard; sawmill; scrap iron; storage yard; stock yards; sulfur, sulfuric acid, or derivatives manufacture; tar distillation or manufacture; terra cotta manufacture; wrecking material yard; and coal washing; storage and transfer yards and facilities; and
(2) Any other industrial, manufacturing, fabrication, or processing uses which the Board of Adjustments determines to be non-detrimental to surrounding properties nor possess other characteristics that would be a nuisance to the residents of the city.
(C) Accessory uses. Any accessory use or building customarily incidental to the above permitted and conditional uses.
(E) Required conditions.
(1) Yards. On lots adjacent to a Residential District, all buildings shall be located so as to provide a minimum side yard of 100 feet.
(2) Loading docks. No loading dock shall be constructed fronting on any public street or roadway.
(3) Storage facilities. No materials or supplies shall be stored or permitted to remain on any part of the property outside the buildings constructed thereon without proper screening and adequate distances from adjoining properties.
(4) Waste disposal. No waste material or refuse shall be dumped upon or permitted to remain upon any part of an industrial property outside of buildings constructed thereon. In addition, the property shall not be used by an industry whose primary business requires industrial sewerage, unless the governing municipal body authorizes the use of its sewage disposal facilities or the industry constructs its own sewage disposal plant.
(5) Screening. Junk yards, salvage and scrap iron yards, and similar uses shall be enclosed by an acceptable fence, wall, or other screening not less than six feet in height. The Board of Adjustment shall determine the acceptability of the screening.
(6) Heavy machinery. Extraction of minerals, stripping of soil, sand and gravel pits, (not including any processing), shall require that any power-driven or power-reproducing machinery or equipment shall not be housed or operated less than 1,000 feet from any Residential District.
(F) Development standards. Development standards include the following.
Maximum building height | 36 feet or 3 stories |
Minimum front yard | 50 feet, or one-half of the street right-of-way, whichever is greater |
Minimum lot area | none |
Minimum lot frontage | 100 feet |
Minimum rear yard | 25 feet |
Minimum side yard | 25 feet minimum; 100 feet if adjacent to Residential District |
Parking | |
Sidewalks | |
Signs | |
(Prior Code, § 152.091) (Ord. 920.27, passed 10-7-1993) Penalty, see § 152.999