The I-1 light industrial district is designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the district and which will not cause adverse effects on adjacent residential or commercial property. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses.

Any of the following uses conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, or within a designated area enclosed on all sides with a seven foot (7') obscuring wall or fence:

Building material sales.

Dwellings for caretakers or watchmen accessory to any of the uses in this section.

Laboratories; experimental, film, or testing.

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

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

Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs (excluding large stampings).

Offices of veterinarians.

Publicly owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchanges, transformer stations, and substations with service yards, but without storage yards, water and sewage pumping stations, when operation requirements necessitate the locating of said facilities within the district in order to serve the immediate vicinity.

The compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, food products, flour, grain, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, hardware, and cutlery; tool, die, gauge and machine shops.

The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or improvement of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood and yarns.

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

Warehouses, storage and transfer, and electric and gas service buildings and yards, railroad transfer and storage tracks. Heating and electric power generating plants, and all necessary uses. Water and gas tanks and holders. Passenger and/or freight terminals; railroad rights of way.

Warehousing and wholesale establishments, and storage (other than accessory to a permitted retail use).

Yards, docks and transfer facilities for motor freight.

Any retail or commercial use allowed in the B-2 general commercial district.

Off street parking and loading space as required in chapter 14 of this title.

Uses of a light manufacturing nature, employing electricity or other unobjectionable motive power, utilizing hand labor or unobjectionable machinery or processes, and free from any objectionable odors, fumes, dirt, vibration or noise. Such uses shall not be established without an application for a permit which shall be accompanied by evidence indicating that every reasonable provision will be taken to eliminate or minimize gas fumes, odors, dirt, vibration or noise. Such application for permit shall be approved by the zoning administrator. In the event of the denial of such permit, an applicant shall have a right of appeal to the joint planning and zoning commission, in accordance with the procedure hereinafter set forth in chapter 17 of this title. (Ord. 567, 11-1976; amd. Ord. 3041, 12-3-2013)

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

Rustproofing shops.

Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to the above uses. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

Same as B-2 district. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

No minimum area is required; minimum width, fifty feet (50'). (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

Seventy percent (70%) of the lot area. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

   (A)   Front Yard: Twenty five feet (25').

No parking shall be permitted in the front yard except after review and approval of the parking plan layout and points of access.

   (B)   Side Yard: Must have two (2) side yards totaling twenty five feet (25'), neither of which can be less than ten feet (10') in width.

   (C)   Rear Yard: Not less than twenty five feet (25'). Provided, further loading space shall be provided in the rear yard in the ratio required in chapter 14 of this title and shall be computed separately from the off street parking requirements. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

See chapter 14 of this title. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

See chapter 14 of this title. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

Signs shall be regulated by chapter 15 of this title. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)

Those sides of a lot or parcel in an I-1 district which abut or are across an alley from a lot or parcel in an R-1, R-2, R-3, or R-4 district shall be provided with buffer strips in accordance with chapter 15 of this title. (Ord. 567, 11-1976)