The I Industrial District is designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale and warehouse activities, and industrial operations whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I district is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material. It is the intent of this article that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form to be used in an industrial operation at another location not be permitted.

(Ord. No. 96-5, art. XI, preamble, 3-5-1996)

In an I Industrial district, no land or building shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this article.

(1)

Any of the following uses when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, or within a designated area enclosed on all sides with a six-foot fence or solid wall. Such fence or wall shall be completely obscuring on those sides where abutting or adjacent to districts zoned for residential use.

a.

Warehousing and wholesale establishments and trucking facilities.

b.

The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as, but not limited to, bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge and machine shops.

c.

The manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials such as, but not limited to, bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal (excluding large stampings such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills) and yarns.

d.

The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

e.

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal or rubber stamps, or other small molded rubber products.

f.

Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices; radios and phonographs.

g.

Laboratories, experimental, film or testing.

h.

Manufacture and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like.

i.

Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards, water supply and sewage disposal plants. Water and gas tank holders, railroad transfer and storage tracks, heating and electric power generating plants and all necessary uses, railroad rights-of-way and freight terminals.

j.

Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, open storage of contractor's equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In any I district, the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the board of appeals on the basis of usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than six feet in height and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chainlink type fence with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of such fence shall be considered to be an obscuring fence.

(2)

All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.

(3)

Kennels, commercial.

(4)

Nonaccessory signs shall be permitted in accordance with the requirements set forth in section 50-456.

(5)

Other uses of a similar character, subject to such conditions, requirements and safeguards as set forth in sections 50-545 and 50-547.

(6)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses provided such buildings and uses are located on the same zoning lot as a permitted use.

(Ord. No. 96-5, § 1100, 3-5-1996)

The following uses shall be permitted after the planning commission, after a public hearing held in accordance with section 50-546 and upon review of the plans, finds that the plans meet the conditions as may imposed to carry out the purposes of this article:

(1)

Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities (such as, but not limited to, lumber yards, building materials, outlets, garage sales; upholsterer, cabinet maker; outdoor boat, or house trailer, automobile, or agricultural implement sales) or serve convenience needs of the industrial district (such as, but not limited, eating and drinking establishments, excluding drive-in, motel or bowling alley).

(2)

Auto repair station and undercoating shops when completely enclosed.

(3)

Lumber and planing mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the district so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the I district.

(4)

Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances.

(5)

Other uses which, in the determination of the planning commission after a public hearing held in accordance with section 50-546, are of a similar character to the above uses and subject to the requirements set forth in sections 50-545 and 50-547.

(6)

Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above uses provided such structures and uses are located on the same zoning lot as a permitted use.

(Ord. No. 96-5, § 1101, 3-5-1996)

(a)

Any use established in the I district after the effective date of the ordinance from which this article is derived shall be operated so as to comply with the performance standards set forth hereinafter in article XV of this chapter, general provisions.

(b)

See article XIV of this chapter, schedule of regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings.

(Ord. No. 96-5, § 1102, 3-5-1996)