A. Characteristics: Industrial Service firms are engaged in the repair or servicing of industrial, business or consumer machinery, equipment, products or by-products. Firms that service consumer goods do so by mainly providing centralized services for separate retail outlets. Contractors and building maintenance services and similar uses perform services off-site. Few customers, especially the general public, come to the site.
B. Accessory Uses: Accessory activities may include offices, parking and storage.
C. Examples: Examples include welding shops; machine shops; tool repair; electric motor repair; repair of scientific or professional instruments; sales, repair, storage, , metal and building materials; towing and vehicle storage;; heavy truck servicing and repair; tire retreading or recapping; truck stops; building, heating, plumbing or electrical contractors; printing, publishing and lithography; exterminators; recycling operations; janitorial and building maintenance services; fuel oil distributors; solid fuel yards; research and development laboratories; laundry, dry-cleaning and carpet cleaning plants; and photo finishing laboratory; concrete batching and asphalt mixing; stocking of sand, gravel, or other aggregate materials.
D. Exceptions:
1. Contractors and others who perform services off-site are included in the Office category, if major equipment and materials are not stored at the site and fabrication, or similar work is not carried on at the site.
2. Hotels, restaurants and other services which are part of a truck stop are considered accessory to the truck stop. (Ord. 2019-04, 10-16-2019)