(A) Purpose. The I-2 District is intended to provide a district which will allow all manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, treatment, or assembly of products and materials which due to their size and nature, would not conform in the I-1 District.
(B) Permitted uses. Within an I-2 District, unless otherwise provided by this chapter, no building or land shall be used except for the following:
(1) Those uses as first permitted, and as regulated in § 152.30 (I-1 District), shall be a permitted use;
(2) Canning factories, and creameries, food processing plants, including smoking and curing operations;
(3) Contractor’s offices, shops and yards for plumbing, heating, glazing, painting, paper hanging, roofing, ventilating, air conditioning, masonry, electrical, and refrigeration industries;
(4) Cooperatives;
(5) Freight terminals and classification yards;
(6) Fuel and ice sales and storage facilities, including bulk fuel storage;
(7) Garages for storage, repair, and servicing of motor vehicles and farm implements;
(8) Gasoline and oil bulk stations and distributing plants;
(9) Hatcheries;
(10) Grain elevators, milling, and processing activities;
(11) Highway maintenance shops and yards;
(12) Monument works, cutting, grinding and polishing operations (excavation excluded);
(13) Poultry and animal rendering plants, processing, and treatment yards;
(14) Accessory uses, as follows:
(a) Accessory uses, except signs, customarily incident to the above permitted uses;
(b) Signs as regulated in § 152.55; and
(c) Off-street parking and loading as regulated by § 152.56, which shall be provided on the premises.
(15) A residential dwelling currently existing on a lot or parcel of land in the I-2 District may be replaced by a newly constructed residential dwelling provided the number of dwelling units in the building are not increased.
(C) Uses by conditional use permit. Within an I-2 District, buildings or land may be used for one or more of the following uses if granted a conditional use permit as provided in § 152.07.
(1) Any manufacturing, production, processing, cleaning, storage, servicing, repair, and testing of materials, goods, or products similar to those listed in division (B) above, which comply with the performance standards of this District.
(2) Storage, utilization, or manufacture of materials or products which could decompose on detonation.
(3) Automobile wrecking and/or junk yards, provided, such use is conducted within a building or the premises on which such business is conducted is entirely enclosed within a solid substantial fence, except for gates, not less than eight feet in height. The term SOLID as used herein shall mean a fence having an opacity of 100%.
(4) Mobile home park development, subject to the regulations as established in § 152.57, “minimum mobile home park requirements”.
(5) Retail and service establishments, of an essential or convenience nature consistent with the operation of an industrial district.
(D) Height, yard, and lot coverage regulations.
(1) Height regulations. No structure shall exceed four stories or 45 feet in height, whichever is less.
(2) Yard regulations.
(a) No building shall be located within 50 feet of any residential district.
(b) Except for railroad loading areas, no parking or loading space shall be located within 25 feet of any residential district.
(c) Any open storage of materials or open loading areas shall be located or screened so as not to be visible from any residential district.
(E) Performance standards. The performance standards of the I-2 District shall be those of § 152.29(E) except that measurement or determination of noise, odor, and vibration shall be made at the boundary of the I-2 District, rather than at the property line of the use concerned.
(F) Screening, landscaping, lighting, storage, and outdoor displays. The regulations shall be those of § 152.29(F), as regulated therein.
(2006 Code, § 11.09) (Ord. 130, passed 12-24-1971; Ord. 73, 3rd Series, passed 12-20-1987) Penalty, see § 152.99