Brooklyn Center City Zoning Code
35-331 I-2
General Industry
35-331I-2 General Industry1)Permitted Usesa)The following manufacturing activities.1)Food and kindred products as illustrated by: Dairy products Bakery products Confectionery and related products Beverages, including beer, wine, and distilled alcohol Macaroni, spaghetti and noodles.2)Textile mill products.3)Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics, leather and similar materials.4)Lumber and wood products, except saw mills and planing mills producing dimensioned lumber.5)Furniture and fixtures.6)Converted paper and paperboard products (as opposed to paper and paperboard manufacturing).7)Printing, publishing and allied industries.8)Chemicals and allied products as follows: Drugs Soaps, detergents and cleaning preparations, perfumes, cosmetics and other toilet preparations (compounding and packaging only)9)Miscellaneous plastic products.10)Fabricated metal products as illustrated by: Office computing and accounting machines Household appliances Electrical lighting and wiring equipment Communication equipment, including radio and television receiving sets Electronic components and accessories Screw machine product Coating, engraving and allied services.11)Professional, scientific, electronic and controlling instruments, photographic and optical goods, watches and clocks.12)Miscellaneous manufacturing goods such as jewelry and silverware, musical instruments and parts, toys, amusement, sporting and athletic goods and pens, pencils and other office and artistic materials.13)Assembly of electric powered vehicles.b)The following wholesale trade activities:1)Motor vehicles and automotive equipment.2)Drugs, chemicals and allied products.3)Dry goods and apparel.4)Groceries and related products.5)Electrical goods.6)Hardware, plumbing, heating equipment and supplies.7)Machinery, equipment and supplies.8)Other wholesale trade similar in nature to the aforementioned uses such as paper and paper products, furniture and home furnishings and beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverages, but expressly excluding petroleum bulk stations and scrap and waste materials and similar uses.c)The following service activities:1)Laundrying, dry cleaning and dyeing.2)Warehousing and storage.3)Automobile and truck repair and wash.4)Contract construction.5)Kennels.6)Veterinarian and animal hospitals.7)Automobile and truck rental and leasing.8)Gasoline service stations (See Section 35-414), motor vehicle repair and auto washes provided they do not abut an R1, R2, or R3 district, including abutment at a street line; trailer rental in conjunction with these uses, provided that there is adequate trailer parking space.d)Truck terminals or exchange stations.e)Public transit terminals.f)Accessory uses incidental to the foregoing principal uses when located upon the same property with the use to which it is accessory. Such accessory uses to include but not be restricted to the following:1)Off-street parking and off-street loading.2)Signs as permitted in the Brooklyn Center Sign Ordinance.3)Storage of materials, provided that when the use abuts or is adjacent to any residential zone such storage 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 feet nor more than eight feet in height.g)Other uses similar in nature to the aforementioned uses, as determined by the City Council.2)Special Requirementsa)See Section 35-413 of these ordinances.3)Special Usesa)Foundries, provided that the foundry operation is a necessary incident to a principal use permitted in the I-2 district.b)Retail sales of products manufactured, processed or wholesaled at the use site.c)Accessory off-site parking not located on the same property with the principal use, subject to the provisions of Section 35-701.