Ada City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1157
I-I Light Industrial District
1157.01 PURPOSE.
The purpose of the I-I Industrial District is to encourage the development of manufacturing and wholesale business establishments which are clean, quiet, and free of hazardous or objectionable elements such as noise, odor, dust, smoke, or glare; operate entirely within enclosed structures and generate little industrial traffic. Research activities are encouraged. This district is further designed to act as a transitional use between heavy industrial uses and other less intense business and residential use.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1157.02 USES PERMITTED.
(a) Storage in bulk of or warehouse for, commodities such as building materials, contractors equipment, clothing, fibers (raw or finished), drugs, dry goods, feed, fertilizer, food, solid fuels, furniture, hardware, ice, machinery, metals, paint and paint materials, pipe, rubber and rubber products, shop supplies, liquid fuels, petroleum or petroleum products or volatile oils and liquids shall be underground and in tanks of a maximum capacity of twenty thousand (20,000) gallons, built and constructed in accordance with the minimum regulations of the State of Ohio.
(b) Laundry or dry cleaning plants and facilities, printing publishing and reproduction establishments.
(c) Cold storage plants, breweries, milk bottling, ice plant and storage, central distribution, wholesaling, or processing plants.
(d) Veterinary hospital and animal kennels.
(e) Freight terminals, truck terminals and railroad yards, to include the building of spur lines or switching facilities required or desirable in connection with any use permitted under this section.
(f) Lumber yard or planning mill.
(g) Administrative, engineering, scientific research, design or experimentation facility, assaying of ore by laboratory methods, and such processing and fabrication as may be necessary thereto.
(h) Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs and pharmaceutical products, soap (cold process only) and food products and bottling works, except the following: fish or meat products, sauerkraut, sugar beets, vinegar, yeast and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
(i) Manufacturing or processing of small items, including footballs, gloves, footwear, bathing caps, shoes, boots, boxes and cartons, hardware, toys, electric batteries, motors or generators, and textile products.
(j) Assembling of electrical appliances, radio and phonographs and televisions, including the manufacturing of small parts only, such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders, electric and electronic parts and equipment for wholesale; musical instruments, novelties, and light metal products.
(k) Essential services.
(l) Medical and Health Clinics and Diagnostic Facilities.
(Ord. 2019-08. Passed 11-5-19.)
1157.03 CONDITIONAL USES WITH APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF ZONING AND BUILDING APPEALS AFTER A HEARING.
(a) Other manufacturing uses of a light nature, free from any objectionable odors, fumes dirt, vibration, or noise detectable at the lot line.
(b) Any commercial use on the same or abutting parcel of land as a permitted use, or a conditional use allowed pursuant to paragraph (a) herein by the Board of Zoning Appeals. However, no commercial establishment selling or serving alcoholic beverages shall be located within five hundred (500) feet of public school, playground, church, hospital, private school, library or college, measured from the nearest entrance and along street lines.
(c) One dwelling unit for a caretaker and his family.
(Ord. 2019-08. Passed 11-5-19.)
1157.04 ACCESSORY USES.
Accessory uses and structures customarily accessory and incidental to any of the foregoing permitted uses in the I-I District.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1157.05 OTHER REQUIRED CONDITIONS.
Processes and equipment employed and goods processed or sold shall be limited to those which are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, gas, fumes, noise, vibration, refuse matter or water-carried waste, and must comply with all provisions of this Zoning Ordinance. (Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1157.06 HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
No structure in the I-I District shall exceed eighty (80) feet in height.
(Ord. 2013-05. Passed 6-4-13.)
1157.07 REQUIRED LOT AREA.
Each use to be established in the I-I Light Industrial District shall provide a minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet and a minimum lot width if 100 feet.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1157.08 YARDS REQUIRED.
All structures to be constructed, altered, or moved, in the I-I District shall provide yards of the following minimum depths:
Front Yard – 30 feet
Side Yard – 10 feet, except where a yard abuts a residential district in which case a side yard of 30 feet shall be provided.
Rear Yard: - 30 feet
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)
1157.09 SCREENING REQUIRED BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
Newly established industrial uses adjacent or backing on a residential district shall provide on that adjacent property line a dense hedge, tree row, fence, or other suitable landscape device adequate to visually screen the industrial area from the residential area. Plant material shall be a minimum of four (4) feet tall at the time of planting. Fences, walls or other landscape devices shall be a minimum height of six (6) feet.
(Ord. 1986-06. Passed 5-27-86.)