(A) The I-1 Light Industrial District is designed to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the District and in no manner, affect in a detrimental way, any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material.
(B) The general goals of this use district include, among other, the following specific purposes:
(1) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the village’s expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses;
(2) To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development;
(3) To promote manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiations and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor and other objectionable influences; and
(4) To protect the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well-considered plan, to protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the village’s tax revenue.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)