(A) Purpose. The purpose of the General Industrial District is to:
(1) Maintain and enhance the county’s economic base and promote employment;
(2) Provide a district suitable for commercial, general industrial, manufacturing and processing uses which, due to their size, location and character, require large sites and separation from residential and similar uses;
(3) Encourage high quality development that avoids or mitigates impacts to natural systems and less intensive uses; and
(4) Ensure that the efficiency and safety of arterial roadways are maintained through access control management.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Agriculture, including farm homesteads;
(2) Agricultural chemicals, fertilizer sales;
(3) Agriculturally-oriented business;
(4) Auction houses;
(5) Ethanol or biofuel production, commercial;
(6) Feed and seed sales;
(7) Grain elevator, grain storage and drying (commercial);
(8) Natural resource manufacturing and processing;
(9) Seasonal produce stand;
(10) Highway maintenance shops and yards;
(11) Local governmental agency building or facility, community center;
(12) Parks and public recreation areas;
(13) School, trade;
(14) Adult uses;
(15) Airport, heliport, aircraft rental, sale, servicing, manufacturing and related services;
(16) Automobile, trailer, marine, recreational vehicle and farm implement sales;
(17) Building material sales and storage, lumberyard, garden store, commercial greenhouse, manufactured home sales;
(18) Office services;
(19) Repair services. Repair service include, but are not limited to, the repair of: appliances, furniture and upholstery, jewelry, shoes, musical instruments, watches and other articles generally found for sale in retail sales establishments;
(20) Cold storage plant, ice plant;
(21) Contractor’s yard with outdoor storage;
(22) Industrial sales establishment includes: dental instruments and supplies, medical and surgical instruments and supplies, precision instrument sales, sign contractor, welding supply, and new and used equipment (except unlicensed motor vehicles); sales and inventory;
(23) Manufacturing, limited, including fight assembly and packing. Limited manufacturing includes: Manufacture and assembly of cabinets and woodworking products; camera and photographic products; clothing; computers and accessories; confectionary and related products; footwear; film and video equipment; hand and edge tools; handbags and luggage; laboratory instruments and associated equipment; medical equipment; sports equipment; temperature controls; telecommunications equipment; bottling or distillation, printing, publishing, engraving and reproduction, newspaper plant and office, design and manufacture of patterns;
(24) Manufacturing, general. Includes the manufacturing and/or assembly of these products or conducting these processes: electric lighting and wiring equipment; electrical products and appliances; fabricated metal, plastic and rubber products (except tires and inner tubes); glass and glass products; textiles and fabrics; optical instruments and lenses; gypsum, drywall, plaster and stone products; machinery and equipment such as engines and turbines, cooling and refrigeration equipment, and machine tools; metal working such as stamping, welding, extruding, engraving, plating, grinding, polishing, cleaning and heat-treating;
(25) Truck terminal, truck stop, freight terminal;
(26) Warehouse distribution facility;
(27) Railroad right-of-way, but not including railroad yard;
(28) Kennels, private;
(29) Outdoor display;
(30) Parking facility;
(31) Solar equipment;
(32) Auction site;
(33) Other accessory uses and structures that are incidental to the principal use;
(34) Permitted uses in the HC Highway Commercial District; and
(35) Food processing plant when connected to municipal water, municipal sewer, and/or an industrial waste treatment facility.
(C) Conditional uses (see Article 4 for accessory uses).
(1) Mineral extraction, mining;
(2) Organized motor sports: ATVs, trucks, tractors or motorcycle tracks or trails (not including auto or other vehicle racing, tracks or events);
(3) Automobile repair;
(4) Automobile service station, car wash;
(5) Convenience gas and goods sales;
(6) Restaurant (drive-in), theater (drive-in) or similar uses that provide goods and services to patrons in automobiles;
(7) Veterinary and animal clinic and facilities for the care and/or breeding of animals, including kennels;
(8) Advertising sign (off-site);
(9) Fertilizer manufacture;
(10) Storage, bulk;
(11) Landfill (sanitary), recycling facility;
(12) Salvage yard, recycling facility with incinerator, other facilities with incinerators;
(13) Antenna for radio, television and communication facilities;
(14) Essential services, facilities and structures;
(15) Wind turbine, accessory;
(16) Industrial wastewater treatment facility;
(17) Solar farms; and
(18) Conditional uses in the HC Highway Commercial District.
(D) Outdoor display standards. Display of materials shall be located outside the public right-of-way, and shall be maintained in an orderly condition.
(E) Dimensional standards. Development within the General Industrial District shall be subject to the following minimum dimensional standards:
(1) Lot area:
(a) Principal permitted and conditional uses: as necessary to meet all setbacks and coverage regulations, or as specified by conditional use permit; and
(b) No minimum lot area required for utilities, public uses and communication towers except as otherwise required.
(2) Minimum lot width: 100 feet;
(3) Minimum setbacks from property or road right-of-way lines, principal structures:
(a) Front yard: 50 feet;
(b) Side yard: 15 feet, or 50 feet from any lot in a residential or agricultural district; and
(c) Rear yard: 15 feet or 50 feet from any lot in a residential or agricultural district.
(4) Minimum setbacks from property or road right-of-way lines, accessory structures:
(a) Front yard: same as principal structure;
(b) Side yard: ten feet; and
(c) Rear yard: ten feet.
(5) Minimum setbacks, windbreaks and trees:
(a) Road right-of-way of less than 100 feet: 20 feet from right-of-way;
(b) Road right-of-way of 100 feet or greater: 15 feet from right-of-way;
(c) From side or rear parcel boundary: ten feet for windbreaks consisting of shrubs and 20 feet for trees, as defined;
(d) Side or rear windbreak and tree setbacks may be reduced or eliminated by agreement of adjoining property owners when the agreement is filed with the Zoning Administrator and recorded by the County Recorder of Deeds.
(6) Maximum height for all structures except agricultural structures, utilities and communication or wind towers: 70 feet; and
(7) Maximum impervious coverage: 75% of lot area.
(F) Additional requirements. Additional requirements within this ordinance and other County ordinances apply to development in the I District. These include, but are not limited to, the general regulations in Article 4 and the conditional use and specific development standards in Article 3.
(Ord. 97, passed 7-21-2009; Ord. 113, passed 4-15-2014; Ord. 115, passed 6-17-2014; Ord. --, passed --; Ord. 142, passed 7-21-2020)