A. I-1 District:
Any use permitted in the C-1 and C-2 commercial districts except residential uses.
Manufacturing: Manufacture or processing of small items including gloves, footwear, bathing caps, boxes, cartons and cans, hardware, toys, electric batteries, motors or generators; textile products manufacture; glass, plastics, cement and stone products manufacture; furniture manufacture; food manufacture or processing including hatcheries, canning, freezing, storage and bottling.
Other manufacturing uses of a light nature, free from any objectionable odors, fumes, dirt, vibration or noise detectable at the lot line. Such uses shall not be established without an application for a permit which shall be accompanied by a certification by a registered engineer or architect indicating that fumes, odors, dirt, vibration or noise produced by the industry will not be detectable at the lot line. In the event of the denial of such permit, the applicant shall have the right of appeal to the zoning board of appeals in accordance with section 10-9-4 of this title.
Warehousing and storage: Indoor and outdoor storage of goods and materials including warehousing, pole yards, building material storage and trucking storage. (Ord. 1793, 2-7-1977)
Additional permissible use limited to the I-1 District where the Taylorville Industrial Park is located: Outdoor digital and/or lighted one-sided and/or two-sided business and advertising billboards or signs pertaining to advertisement of business and/or events on and/or off the property where such billboards or signs are located, provided such billboard or sign is otherwise compliant with the sign regulations in Chapter 8 of Title 9 of the Taylorville City Code, and the illumination of all billboards or signs shall be diffused or indirect and shall be arranged so as not to reflect direct rays of light into adjacent residential districts or into the public way unless authorized and permitted by the Illinois Department of Transportation; and any billboard or sign located in the direct line of vision of any traffic control signal shall not have flashing or intermittent red, green, or amber illumination.
B. I-2 District: All uses not otherwise prohibited by law except as residential uses; provided, however, that the following uses will be permitted as special uses in the I-2 district when authorized by the city council after public hearing and recommendation by the plan commission: auction houses; auto wrecking yards and other salvage or wrecking operations, providing all such salvage operations are located not less than two hundred feet (200') from any R district and are conducted within an area enclosed on all sides with painted fence, tight and impervious to view, and not less than eight feet (8') high, and provided further, that such salvage or wrecking operations shall not be visible from the nearest street or highway; bag cleaning, boiler and tank works; central mixing plant for cement, mortar, plaster or paving materials; coke oven; curing, tanning and storage of raw hides and skins; distillation of bones, coal, wood or tar; fat rendering; forge plant; foundry or metal fabrication plant; gasoline or oil storage aboveground in excess of five hundred (500) gallons; slaughterhouse or stockyards; smelting plant; and the manufacture of acetylene, acid, alcohol or alcoholic beverages; ammonia, bleaching powder, chemicals, brick, pottery, terra cotta or tile; candles; disinfectants; dyestuffs; fertilizers; linseed oil, paint, oil, turpentine, varnish, soap and tar products, or any other use which, in the opinion of the plan commission, would emit detrimental or obnoxious noise, vibrations, smoke, odors, dust or other objectionable conditions beyond the confines of its property. The plan commission shall recommend city council approval if it determines that the proposed use will not extend its detrimental or obnoxious effects beyond the limits of the heavy industrial district in which it is located. Such special uses shall be subject to any requirements the plan commission feels necessary to further the purpose of the industrial district as stated in subsection 10-6-1B of this chapter. (Ord. 3347, 8-20-2007)
C. I-3 District: Permitted uses in this district shall be:
Bona fide agricultural uses as defined in section 10-1-4 of this title.
Electrical generation facilities with a nameplate capacity greater than 10MW and associated and related uses, including, but not limited to, coal gasification, storage and landfills.
The mining, extraction, processing, washing, storage, and transporting of coal and the storage of ash and other refuse from the processing of coal.
Including equipment, buildings, or structures related to such uses.
The plan commission shall recommend city council approval for any reclassification of territory to an I-3 district if it determines that the proposed use or uses will not extend its detrimental or obnoxious effects to a large segment of the community; and any such use or uses shall be further subject to any requirements the plan commission feels necessary to further the purpose of the I-3 district as stated in subsection 10-6-1C of this chapter. (Ord. 3177, 6-7-2004)
D. I-1, I-2, Or I-3 District:
Indoor firing ranges. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, an indoor firing range shall only be permitted as a special use in an I-1, I-2, or I-3 industrial district subject to the same requirements for an indoor firing range special use that is stated in subsection 10-5-6A of this title for an indoor firing range special use in a C-1 commercial district, and such aforesaid requirements are incorporated herein by reference thereto and are applicable to an indoor firing range special use in an I-1, I-2, or I-3 industrial district.
Indoor recycling centers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, an indoor recycling center shall only be permitted as a special use in an I-1, I-2, or I-3 industrial district subject to the same requirements for an indoor recycling center special use that is stated in subsection 10-5-6A of this title for an indoor recycling center special use in a C-1 commercial district, and such aforesaid requirements are incorporated herein by reference thereto and are applicable to an indoor recycling center special use in an I-1, I-2, or I-3 industrial district. (Ord. 3740, 3-7-2016; amd. Ord. 3741, 3-7-2016)
E. Change Of Special Use: No special use shall be changed except by authorization of the city council after a public hearing and recommendation by the plan commission.
F. Termination Of Special Use:
1. A special use as described herein shall terminate if not used for a period of twelve (12) months.
2. A special use as described herein shall be limited solely to the existing sole owner(s) of said property granted such special use under this section.
3. A special use as described herein shall terminate, without further action, immediately upon the leasing of the special use property to anyone other than the existing owners of the property granted such special use or immediately upon any future transfer of ownership of the property granted such special use to anyone other than to one of the existing owners of the property granted such special use or to their respective heirs or testamentary devisees.
4. A special use as described herein shall, without further action, immediately terminate: a) upon the exercise of any other use of any kind, nature, or extent whatsoever on the property granted such special use under; or b) upon the exercise of any other use not permitted in an I-1 or I-2 or I-3 industrial district, as the case may be; or c) upon the majority affirmative vote of the city council, exercised in its sole discretion, upon any violation of any one or more of the terms, restrictions, provisions, or conditions of a special use, as described herein.
5. In addition to, and not in lieu of, any other right or remedy of the city, each owner of the property that is subject to such special use shall be assessed a fine or penalty in an amount of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each violation of any terms, provisions, restrictions or conditions of such special use. Each day upon which a violation occurs or continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense. A violation hereof may be established by a preponderance of the evidence. (Ord. 3741, 3-7-2016; amd. Ord. 4127, 10-3-2022)