In the Light Industrial District, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
(A) Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building;
(B) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building:
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments and trucking facilities;
(2) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as, but not limited to, bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge and machine shops;
(3) The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood and yarns;
(4) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(5) The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal or rubber stamps or other molded rubber products;
(6) The manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs;
(7) Laboratories (experimental, film or testing);
(8) Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like;
(9) Central dry-cleaning plants or laundries provided that such plants shall not deal directly with consumers at retail; and
(10) All public utilities, including buildings, accessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.
(C) Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards. Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations, water supply and sewage disposal plants, water and gas tank holders and freight terminals;
(D) (1) Manufacture of building products, storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor’s equipment and supplies; provided, such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare;
(2) In any I-1 district, the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Zoning Board based on usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than five feet in height, and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chain link type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of said fence, is considered to be an obscuring fence;
(E) Municipal uses such as water treatment plants, and reservoirs, sewage treatment plants and all other municipal buildings and uses, including outdoor storage;
(F) Commercial kennels;
(G) Greenhouses;
(H) Trade or industrial schools;
(I) Freestanding non-accessory signs; and
(J) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to the above uses.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99