In an industrial district, front, side and rear yards shall be provided on every lot occupied by a main, conditional or accessory building or use in accordance with the following schedule;
SCHEDULE OF MINIMUM YARD DIMENSIONS (in feet)
Front Yard | Side Yard | Rear Yard | ||||||
District | Permitted Building or Use | Lot Abuts Major or Arterial Street (a) | Lot Abuts Industrial Road | Adjoining Residential district | Adjoining Non- residential District | Abutting Street | Lot Adjoins Residential District | Lot Adjoins Non- Residential district |
Office- Laboratory | Main and accessory building or use | 200 | 100 | 75 (d) | 25 | 100 | 75 (d) | 50 |
Off-street parking and/or loading | 200 (b) | 100 (b) | 75 (c)(d) | 5 | 100(b) | 75 (c)(d) | 5 | |
Exclusive- Office Laboratory | Main and accessory building or use | 200 | 100 | 75 (d) | 25 | 100 | 75 (d) | 50 |
Off-street parking and/or loading | 200 (b) | 100 (b) | 75 (c)(d) | 5 | 100(b) | 75 (c)(d) | 5 | |
Exclusive Industrial | Main and accessory buiding or use | 100 | 50 | 100 | 25 | 50 | 100 | 50 |
Off-street parking and/or loading | 100(b) | 50 | 100(c) | 5 | 50 | 100(c) | 5 | |
(a) Major or arterial streets include Bradley, Crocker and Detroit Roads and any other street designated as major or arterial on the Guide Plan of the City.
(b) Visitor parking is permitted within a required front yard, the above regulations notwithstanding, but in no case shall such parking spaces be less than fifty feet from the planned street right of way.
(c) Parking areas located adjacent to a residential district lot line shall provide a six foot fence or wall or equivalent landscaped screening.
(d) Notwithstanding the side yard and rear yard provisions permitted, as set forth above, at any point where either the side yard or rear yard of an Exclusive Office Laboratory or Office Laboratory District abuts a residential district there shall be maintained a seventy-five foot strip of land in its natural state between the residential district line and any building, structure or parking lot in the Exclusive Office Laboratory or Office Laboratory District. Any buffering required under Chapter 1130 may be accomplished within the seventy-five foot strip herein referred to.
All required yards exclusive of paved areas shall be landscaped. The Planning Commission shall require planting and/or a fence or wall, where necessary to protect residential districts adjacent to or across the street from an industrial district. Such planting and/or fence or wall may extend into a front yard but shall not be planted or constructed within fifteen feet of the planned right of way.
(Ord. 1990-250. Passed 2-21-91; Ord. 1993-229. Passed 1-6-94; Ord. 1999-177. Passed 11-18- 99; Ord. 2006-24. Passed 4-20-06; Ord. 2013-53. Passed 5-16-13; Ord. 2019-42. Passed 6-6-19.)