Research-Development, Commercial Service, General Industrial and Aviation Field Districts and their regulations are established herein in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide, in appropriate and convenient districts, sufficient areas for carrying on research, providing commercial services, manufacturing and distributing goods, and general aviation activities, to serve the community, to promote employment and to strengthen the economy of the community;
(b) To provide Research-Development Districts in appropriate and convenient locations, to meet the needs of the City’s expected future economy for all types of research and related types of development processes;
(c) To provide Commercial Service Districts in appropriate and convenient areas for business, contracting, storage and distribution services and related types of minor production processes;
(d) To provide General Industrial Districts for those products and processes which normally require a large amount of motor vehicle trucking and rail service for the transportation of raw materials and finished products, but in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable influences can be controlled;
(e) To provide for the use of land for sexually oriented businesses of sufficient area to carry out the activities of those businesses with the integration of properly planned and organized industrial development; and to regulate sexually oriented businesses in order to promote the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the City, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the deleterious location of sexually oriented businesses within the City. The provisions of this ordinance do not have the purpose or effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content of any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Further, it is not the intent of this ordinance to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the First Amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor effect of this ordinance to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.
(f) To improve the general environment by prohibiting dwellings, institutions and public facilities in the Industrial Field Districts, and, by so doing, to make land more readily available for industry;
(g) To protect adjacent Residential Districts by restricting the types of manu facturing uses and sexually oriented business uses in the surrounding areas to only those not creating objectionable influences beyond their district boundaries and by separating and insulating them from the most intense manufacturing and aviation activities;
(h) To protect manufacturing, sexually oriented business and related development against congestion insofar as is possible and appropriate in each area by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land and by providing off-street parking and loading facilities; and
(i) To promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 2001-150. Passed 4-8-02.)