(a) Purpose. The Light Industrial District is designed to provide an environment which is suitable for industrial activities that require a pleasant, hazard and nuisance-free environment.
(b) Permitted Uses.
1. Uses permitted in the I1 District are subject to the following conditions:
(1) Dwelling units and lodging rooms, other than watchmen's quarters, are not permitted.
(2) All business, servicing, or processing--except for off-street parking and off-street loading--shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, unless otherwise indicated hereinafter.
(3) All storage--except of motor vehicles in operable condition--shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than six (6) feet nor more than eight (8) feet in height.
2. The following uses are permitted in the I1 District:
(1) Bakeries.
(2) Banks, not including drive-in banks.
(3) Bedding manufacturing
(4) Boot and shoe manufacturing.
(5) Building materials sales and storage.
(6) Carpet manufacturing.
(7) Cartage and express facilities.
(8) Cloth products manufacturing.
(9) Contractors, architects, and engineers offices, shops, and yards.
(10) Cosmetics production.
(11) Dairy products.
(12) Dry cleaning establishments.
(13) Dwellings for watchmen and their families, located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.
(14) Electronic and scientific precision instruments manufacturing.
(15) Feed and seed sales.
(16) Fuel and ice sales.
(17) Fur processing.
(18) Glass products production and sales.
(19) Greenhouses--wholesale.
(20) Insulating materials manufacture.
(21) Laboratories--research and testing.
(22) Laundries.
(23) Light machinery production--appliances, business machines etc.
(24) Lithographing.
(25) Lodges and offices of labor organizations.
(26) Mail order houses.
(27) Medical and dental clinics.
(28) Musical instruments manufacture.
(29) Orthopedic and medical appliance manufacture.
(31) Pottery and ceramics manufacture.
(32) Printing and publishing establishments.
(33) Public utility and service uses.
(34) Radio and television stations and towers.
(35) Rope, cord, and twine manufacture
(36) Signs, as regulated hereunder.
(37) Sporting goods manufacture.
(38) Temporary buildings for construction purposes, for a period not to exceed the duration of such construction.
(39) Trade schools.
(40) Warehousing, storage, and distribution facilities.
(41) Wearing apparel manufacture.
(42) Accessory uses, incidental to, and on the same lot as the principal use.
(43) Airports and commercial heliports, including aircraft land field, runways, flight strips, and flying schools, together with hangars, terminal buildings, and other auxiliary facilities.
(44) Air motor, railroad, and water freight terminals.
(45) Food manufacture, packaging, and processing.
(46) Heliports, private.
(47) Paper products manufacture.
(48) Parks and playgrounds.
(49) Planned developments, industrial.
(50) Race tracks.
(51) Recreation buildings or community centers.
(52) Restaurants.
(53) Sewage treatment plants, governmental.
(54) Soap manufacture.
(55) Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas--open or enclosed.
(56) Woodworking and wood products.
(57) Other manufacturing, processing, storage or commercial uses determined by the Planning Commission and Legislative Body to be on the same general character as the uses permitted in subsection (b) above, and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, toxic or noxious matter or glare or heat.
(c) Lot Requirements. None.
(d) Yard Requirements.
1. a. All Uses.
(1) Front Yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a front yard of not less than 30 feet in depth along every front lot line.
(2) Interior Side Yards. In the I1 District, there shall be provided an interior side yard of not less than 15 feet in depth along each interior side lot line.
(3) Corner Side Yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a side yard of not less than 20 feet in depth in every instance where the side property line is adjacent to a public street.
(4) Rear Yard. In the I1 District, there shall be provided a rear yard of not less than 30 feet in depth along the rear lot line.
(5) a. Where the property utilizes fences or walls a minimum thirty-foot buffer shall be used. Said fences or walls shall be six feet in height and constructed of wood, iron, decorative aluminum, stone, brick or decorative block or concrete. Where new fencing would create a continuous surface greater than ten feet in length, such new fencing shall be required to have tree and/or shrub plantings with a minimum of three feet.
b. Where the property utilizes screen plantings a minimum twenty foot buffer shall be used. Said screen plantings shall have a minimum height when planted of six feet and should be of such size, species and spacing as can reasonably be maintained within the property line.
c. Should a safety or fire zone or lane be deemed necessary by the Village safety forces, the Code Enforcement Officer, Police, Fire Department, Street Department, Planning Commission, or Village Administrator such area shall be in addition to any landscaped or buffer area described herein.
(Ord. 2001-12. Passed 6-5-01; Ord. 2023-09. Passed 4-20-23.)
(e) Floor Area Ratio. In the I1 District, floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.0.
(f) Signs In the I1 District, business signs are permitted, subject to the following conditions:
1. a. General Application.
(1) Area. The gross area in square feet of all signs on a zoning lot shall not exceed the lineal feet of frontage of such zoning lot; however, the gross area of all flashing signs shall not exceed one-half (½) the lineal feet of frontage of such zoning lot. Where more than four (4) signs are located on any zoning lot, the fifth such sign and each succeeding sign, respectively, shall reduce the total allowable sign area by 20 percent.
(2) Location. No sign shall be located less than 15 feet from any property line.
(3) Height. No sign shall project higher than 50 feet above curb level.
b. Industrial Parks. For industrial parks, one additional sign on each street frontage--other than those regulated in a., above--shall be permitted, subject to the following:
(1) Content. Such sign shall contain only the name and location of such industrial park and the name and type of business of each occupant of the park.
(2) Area. The gross area in square feet of the additional sign on a zoning lot shall not exceed the lineal feet of frontage of such zoning lot; however, the gross surface area of such additional sign, if flashing, shall not exceed one-half (½) the lineal feet of frontage of such zoning lot.
(3) Setback. Such sign shall be set back a minimum of 15 feet from the front lot line of such industrial park.
(4) Height. No sign shall project higher than 50 feet above curb level.
(g) Off-Street Parking Requirements. Off-street parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with Section 1145.01
et seq.
(h) Off-Street Loading Requirements. Off-street loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with Section 1145.03
et seq.