The Light Industrial Zone is a land use classification for a district suitable for manufacturing and processing of a non-nuisance character. The purpose of the Light Industrial Zone is to encourage the development of manufacturing and wholesale business that is clean, quiet, and free of noise, odor, dust, and smoke.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   In the Light Industrial Zone, no building or premises shall be used nor any building or structure be hereafter erected, altered, or occupied except in compliance with all provisions of this Ordinance. A Light Industrial lot shall have direct access from a public road, or the frontage road or interior road serving more than one Light Industrial lot shall have direct access from a public road.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   (a)   All uses permitted in the B-2 General Retail, Offices and Motorist Service Business District.

   (b)   Public Parks.

   (c)   Light Industrial uses that meet the following requirements:

      (1)   Are carried on in such a manner and with such precautions against fire and explosion hazards as provided by the Uniform Building Code.

      (2)   Screen or store all raw materials, finished products, machinery, and equipment, including company-owned or operated trucks, within a building, a fence, or vegetative barrier as required by this chapter.

      (3)   Emit no obnoxious odors of any kind.

      (4)   Exhaust no waste or dust created by business operation into the air.

      (5)   Discharge no treated or untreated sewage or waste into any reservoir or lake. Discharge and disposal of untreated sewage or industrial waste shall comply with the standards approved by the State Department of Health.

      (6)   Be conducted so that direct and indirect illumination shall not exceed 0.2 foot candle across lot lines of the subject property.

      (7)   Conduct no mining, extraction, filling, or soil-stripping operations.

      (8)   Use only oil, gas or electricity as industrial fuel.

      (9)   Noise levels shall be kept at a minimum, so as not to cause a nuisance to adjoining property owners.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   On any property of whatever size with frontage on a public street the following uses are permitted:

   (a)   Storage of materials and machinery - storage areas must conform to the minimum setback regulations of the Zone.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   Prohibited uses in the Light Industrial Zone include, but are not limited to, the following:

   (a)   General Residential Uses.

   (b)   Public and private schools, general hospitals, sanatoriums, churches, and cemeteries.

   (c)   Stockyards, soap manufacture, glue manufacture, tannery, paper manufacture, wool scouring and cleaning, cotton textile sizing, scouring, leaching, dyeing, and similar uses; varnish manufacture, creosote, and products manufacture.

   (d)   The production of corrosive and noxious chemicals, including, but not limited to, acids, acetylene gas, ammonia, chlorine, and bleaching compounds.

   (e)   The production and process of coal and coal tar, the processing of petroleum and petroleum products, petroleum refining, and the above-ground storage of less than twenty thousand (20,000) gallons (per site) of petroleum products.

   (f)   The extraction, preparation, and processing of dust-producing mineral products including, but not limited to abrasive, cement, lime, fertilizer, plaster, crushed stone, mining of sand, gravel, topsoil.

   (g)   The smelting and reduction of metallic ores including, but not limited to, blast furnaces, open hearth, and electric furnaces, bessemer converters, and non-ferrous metal smelters.

   (h)   The manufacture and storage of explosive products, including, but not limited to dynamite, commercial explosives, T.N.T., military explosives, and fireworks.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   (a)   Lots:

      (1)   Minimum lot area - one-half acre.

      (2)   Minimum lot width at building line - none.

      (3)   Minimum lot frontage - none.

   (b)   Yard:

      (1)   Minimum front yard depth - fifty feet.

      (2)   Minimum rear yard depth - twenty-five feet.

      (3)   Minimum yard width - one hundred feet when adjacent to a residential district and on the side adjacent to the residential district only.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   Where there is an established building line in a Light Industrial Zone, a commercial or industrial building may be built on the established building line. The established building line shall be determined by sixty-five percent (65%) of the existing buildings within two hundred feet from each side of the lot.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   No building hereafter created or structurally altered in a Light Industrial Zone shall exceed three stories or a maximum height of thirty-five feet.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   As regulated by Chapter 1183.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   Merchandise to be sold at retail on the premises may be displayed out-of-doors except that no such display area shall be within fifty feet of any residential district. Display areas shall be screened from abutting residential uses by landscaping sufficient to minimize undesirable visual effects of such display area; such landscape buffer shall be maintained in a neat and orderly fashion.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   (a)   Public Utility Complex Facility.

   (b)   Lighting for any outdoor recreation facility, regardless of whether the use requesting such lighting is a permitted use or a conditional use.

   (c)   Special events location.

   (d)   Any wholesale, retail, or service business.

   (e)   Public or private office buildings.

   (f)   Wireless Communication Facility (WCF).

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)

   Railroad car or truck cargo container/trailer used for storage or any other purpose not associated with the active operation of a railroad or trucking business.

(Ord. 21-08. Passed 7-15-08.)