Canton City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VI
Provisions Governing Industrial Districts
Section 405.180 "L-1" Light Industrial District.
[CC 1985 §42.400; Ord. No. 663-C §§1—2, 12-21-2009]
A.
Within the "L-1" Light Industrial District, the following regulations shall apply:
1.
Permitted uses.
a.
Wholesale businesses.
b.
Storage firms.
c.
Research and development organizations.
d.
Contractors' yards.
e.
Sheet metal shops.
f.
Welding shops.
g.
Machine shops.
h.
Fruit canning and packing establishments.
i.
Animal hospitals.
j.
Bakeries.
k.
Bottling works.
l.
Building material yards where no mill work is done.
m.
Cabinet making establishments and carpenter shops which use no motors larger than ten (10) horsepower.
n.
Clothing factories.
o.
Dairies.
p.
Ice plants.
q.
Milk distribution stations.
r.
Laundries.
s.
Optical goods factories.
t.
Paper box factories.
u.
Pencil factories.
v.
Printing, publication and engraving plants.
w.
Dyeing plants.
x.
Dry cleaning plants.
y.
Feed yards.
z.
Trucking terminals.
aa.
Grain elevators, including storage facilities, barge docking facilities, barge loading facilities and all related buildings and facilities.
2.
Height. There shall be no height restrictions for buildings or structures located in the "L-1" Light Industrial District.
3.
Yard areas.
a.
Front yard. Front yard depths shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet on all lots on which buildings and/or structures are placed. Front yard requirements shall be met on both streets when buildings and structures are placed on corner lots.
b.
Side yard. Side yard widths of at least fifteen (15) feet shall be provided on all lots containing buildings or structures.
c.
Rear yard. Rear yards at least twenty (20) feet deep shall be provided on all lots containing buildings or structures.
d.
Yards adjacent to residential districts. All buildings and structures on lots adjacent to residential districts shall be located so as to provide side yard widths or rear yard depths of at least twenty-five (25) feet adjacent to such residential districts.
e.
Railroad siding frontage. No yards shall be required for those portions of lots which front on railroad sidings.
4.
Off-street parking and loading facilities. Shall be provided as required in Section 405.210 of this Chapter.
5.
Planting areas. Landscape development shall be required to include an area of at least ten (10) feet in width along all streets, with the exception of approved entrances, which border the proposed development and are to be planted and maintained with trees and shrubbery to serve as a screen for parking and storage areas.
6.
A planting screen consisting of suitable shrubbery, maintained at an eight (8) foot height by eight (8) foot width, shall be planted wherever the industrial use abuts a residential district.