(A) Purpose.
(1) The General Industry District will try to provide areas suitable for the location of general industrial activities by allowing adequate loading facilities with access to thoroughfares and railways, ensuring necessary expansion space within district boundaries, and providing effective controls for nuisance and pollution.
(2) Industrial development will be encouraged in a compact and orderly manner so that a wholesome relationship with other land use areas within the city is established.
(B) Permitted principal uses. The following uses shall be permitted:
(1) Adult use/principal businesses;
(2) Appliance assembly and warehousing;
(3) Building materials production, paper mills (including storage facilities), lumber companies and yard;
(4) Bulk gasoline and oil stations and distributing plants;
(5) Canning factories and creameries, food processing plants including smoking and curing operations, dairy operations and produce companies;
(6) Cartage and express facilities;
(7) Contractors’ offices, shops, yards and storage facilities for plumbing, heating, glazing, painting, paperhanging, roofing, ventilating, air conditioning, lumber, masonry, electrical and refrigeration industries;
(8) Cooperatives;
(9) Freight terminals and classification yards;
(10) Fuel and ice sales and storage facilities, including bulk-fuel storage and warehouses;
(11) Garages for storage, repair and servicing of motor vehicles and farm implements;
(12) Grain elevators, milling and processing activities, feed companies;
(13) Highway maintenance shops and yards, public utility maintenance shops and yards;
(14) Machine shops;
(15) Monument works, cutting, grinding and polishing operations;
(16) Poultry and animal rendering plants, processing and treatment yards;
(17) Railroad rights-of-way, including loading docks, warehouses and similar uses; and
(18) Sewage disposal plants, including secondary treatment operations.
(C) Permitted accessory uses. The following shall be permitted accessory uses:
(1) Off-street parking and loading as regulated in § 152.17(L);
(2) Signs as regulated in § 152.41(K); and
(3) Uses customarily incidental to the uses listed in divisions (B) and (D) of this section. All accessory uses shall be on the same lot as the principal use.
(D) Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit as provided in § 152.43:
(1) Restaurants and service establishments of an essential or convenience nature, whose principal function is serving the employees within the Industrial District, provided the uses so allowed shall be consistent with the purpose and operation of a General Industry District; and
(2) Any use listed in division (B) above, or use of a similar nature or compatible nature, which proposes to locate in any of those areas within the General Industry District that have been designated as an Industrial Park by the Council and Planning Commission.
(E) Height, yard setbacks and lot area and coverage requirements. The height, yard setbacks and lot area and coverage requirements shall be those set forth in § 152.40.
(F) Performance standards. Performance standards shall be required in the General Industry District. The standards shall be those set forth in § 152.22(F), except that measurements for nuisance characteristics shall be taken from the district boundary line rather than the property line of any particular use.
(G) Regulations on screening, landscaping, lighting, storage and outdoor displays. The regulations on screening, landscaping, lighting, storage and outdoor displays shall be those set forth in § 152.23(G).
(1987 Code, § 702.11) (Am. Ord. 554, passed 6-26-2012)