The “I – 1” Light Industrial District is intended for the purpose of allowing certain industrial uses which do not:
1. Require intensive land coverage.
2. Generate large volumes of vehicular traffic.
3. Create obnoxious sounds, glare, dust, or odor.
Height and land coverage are controlled to ensure compatibility with adjoining uses.
In the “I – 1” District, no building or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or enlarged which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the uses listed in SECTION 3 below.
1. Animal hospitals or clinics.
2. Auto sales and repair.
3. Bakery, whose primary purpose is not retail sales.
4. Billboards subject to requirements outlined in ARTICLE XXX.
5. Bottling works.
6. Building material sales (except for ready-mix concrete and similar uses which emit dust, odor, or smoke).
7. Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and sheet metal shops.
8. Car wash establishments.
9. Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing or sheet metal shops.
10. Contractor’s office and equipment storage yard, providing the storage yard is completely enclosed with a six (6) foot solid fence or wall.
11. Dog kennels.
12. Dry cleaning and/or laundry plants.
13. Farm and construction equipment sales and services.
14. Feed and seed storage and wholesale distribution.
15. Frozen food lockers.
16. Greenhouses and nurseries, retail and wholesale.
17. Light manufacturing operations, providing that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration or noise beyond the confines of the building or emission of dust, fumes, gas, odor, or smoke.
18. Machinery sales and storage lots .
19. Monument sales.
20. Motor vehicle body shop, provided that all work shall be performed and all materials shall be stored within an enclosed building; and provided further that all operable or inoperable motor vehicles determined by the Zoning Administrator to be a safety hazard or visual blight shall be screened from public view and access by a solid or semi-solid fence having a minimum height of six (6) feet and a visual density of no less than 90%.
21. Motor vehicle repair service, provided that all work shall be performed and all materials shall be stored within an enclosed building; and provided further that all operable or inoperable motor vehicles determined by the Zoning Administrator to be a safety hazard or visual blight shall be screened from public view and access by a solid or semi-solid fence having a minimum height of six (6) feet and a visual density of no less than 90%.
22. Motor vehicle and farm implement sales and storage.
23. Public utility and public service uses:
a. Municipal power plant.
b. Substations.
c. Railroads.
d. Telephone exchanges, microwave towers, radio towers, television towers, telephone transmission buildings, electric power plants.
e. Public utility storage yards when the entire storage area is enclosed by at least a six (6) foot wall or fence.
24. Collection and distribution of recyclable items.
25. Sign printing and manufacturing.
26. Truck and rail terminals.
27. Upholstering shops.
28. Warehouses.
29. Wholesale merchandise sales and storage.
30. The following uses of land may be allowed in this district by Conditional Use Permit when submitted, reviewed, and approved by the Planning Commission and Governing Body appeals subject to such conditions as the Governing Body may require.
a. Livestock auction sales and/or sales of farm related products including seed and feed.
b. Grain elevators.
c. Wireless communications towers subject to the provisions of ARTICLE XXX.
d. Wholesale and storage of products of a volatile nature such as anhydrous and similar products.
1. Lots in this district shall be subject to the following minimum size requirements:
a. Minimum lot size shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
b. Minimum lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet.
2. A building, structure, or use allowed in this district may occupy all of the lot except for that area required for off-street parking and off-street loading and unloading and their access roads and as required for arterial and/or collector streets in ARTICLE XXX.
3. In the case where the required off-street parking and/or loading and unloading will be provided within the building or structure, then the structure may cover the entire lot except as required for arterial and/or collector streets in ARTICLE XXX.
1. When a building or structure is within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a residential district zone, said building or structure shall not exceed forty-five (45) feet in height.
2. When a building or structure is more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from a residential district zone, said building structure shall not exceed seventy-five (75) feet in height.
1. Front Yard.
a. No front yard setback is required for existing uses. New structures shall provide a front yard having a depth of not less than thirty (30) feet measured from the front property line except as required for arterial and collector streets in ARTICLE XXX.
b. Where a lot or lots have double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
c. Where a lot is located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets, there shall be a front yard on each street side of the corner lot except the buildable width of such lot shall not be reduced to less than twenty-eight (28) feet except where necessary to provide a yard on the side street not less than five (5) feet in width.
d. No accessory building shall project beyond the front yard line on either street.
2. Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of each building and said side yard shall not be less than the average height of adjacent buildings. The required side yards for the lot or tract shall be fifteen (15) feet.
3. Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than twenty-five (25) feet or twenty (20) percent of the depth of the lot, whichever is the smaller.
See ARTICLE XXV.
See ARTICLE XXVI.
See ARTICLE XXVII.
See ARTICLE XXVIII.