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Bridgeport City Zoning Code

§ 10

“I” INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT.

USE REGULATIONS: In the Industrial District, no land shall be used and no building shall be erected for or converted to any use other than:
1. 
Any use permitted in the Business District.
2. 
Any manufacturing or Industrial process not prohibited by any other law, provided, however, that no building or occupancy permit shall be issued for any of the following uses until and unless the location of such use shall have been approved by the City Council.
1. 
Acid manufacture.
2. 
Cement, lime (gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture).
3. 
Distillation of bones.
4. 
Explosive, manufacture or storage.
5. 
Fat rendering.
6. 
Fertilizer manufacture.
7. 
Garbage, offal or dead animal reduction or dumping.
8. 
Gas manufacture.
9. 
Glue manufacture.
10. 
Petroleum refining.
11. 
Smelting of tin, copper, zinc, or iron ores.
12. 
Stockyards, or slaughter of animals.
13. 
Tannery.
14. 
Storage of [or] baling of rags, paper, iron or junk.
15. 
Reserved.
16. 
Reserved.
17. 
Cotton Gins.
18. 
Feed Mills.
19. 
Freestanding vending machines, subject to the specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(4) of this Ordinance.
20. 
Outdoor display and/or sales of portable storage buildings.
3. 
Any establishment that derives seventy-five percent (75%) or more of the establishment’s gross revenues from the on-premises sale or service of alcoholic beverages, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(2) of this Ordinance.
4. 
Tattoo studio and/or body piercing studio, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(2) [11A.03(3)] of this Ordinance.
5. 
Sexually Oriented Businesses, as defined in Chapter 4 “Business Regulations,” Article 4.800 [Article 4.07] “Sexually Oriented Business,” of the City Code and subject to the locational, licensing and other requirements as provided in said regulations.
6. 
Wind turbine generators; subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(5) of this Ordinance.
7. 
Telecommunication antennas or towers, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(6) of this Ordinance.
8. 
Automotive Wrecking and Salvage Yards and Automotive Impoundment Yards, as defined in Chapter 14 “Zoning,” Exhibit A “Zoning Ordinance,” Section 1 “Definitions” of the City Code, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(7) of this Ordinance.[1]
[1]
Original has this as Subsection 7.
9. 
Outdoor storage and/or sales of used tires, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(7) [11A.03(8)] of this Ordinance.[2]
[2]
Original has this as Subsection 8.
10. 
Smoke Shop, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by section 11A.03(11) of this Ordinance.
11. 
Pool and Billiard Hall, subject to the issuance of a specific use permit as provided by Section 11A.03(11) of this Ordinance.
(Ordinance adopted 10/21/65; Ordinance 08-01, sec. 2, adopted 1/15/08; Ordinance 08-26 adopted 4/1/08; Ordinance 08-69, sec. 1, adopted 9/16/08; Ordinance 09-18, sec. 2, adopted 4/21/09; Ordinance 09-20, sec. 3, adopted 5/5/09; Ordinance 09-28, sec. 3, adopted 7/7/09; Ordinance 09-71, sec. 1, adopted 10/20/09; Ordinance 2012-11, secs. 1, 3, adopted 9/18/12; Ordinance 2015-10, sec. 1, adopted 7/21/15; Ordinance 2017-27, sec. 3, adopted 8/28/17; Ordinance 2020-21, sec. 3, adopted 8/10/20; Ordinance 2024-12 adopted 5/13/2024)