Provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the anticipated future needs for industrial activity, with due allowance for the need for a range in choice of sites.

Ensure that the land most suitable for industrial and related activities will be available by prohibiting the use of such land for new residential development, and at the same time, to protect residences by separating them from such activities.

Protect industry against congestion by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land around them and to one another and by providing sufficient off-street parking and loading facilities for such developments.

Ensure that industries are reasonably free from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor, glare, hazards of fire or other objectionable effects.

All uses that are permitted by right in the I-2 District, except billboard signs (See definition in § 255-216.) and excepting further, that no use is required to be within an approved planned industrial development.

The following additional uses:

All accessory uses that are permitted in the I-2 District.

Commercial communication antenna mounted on an existing permitted structure, and meeting § 255-199A(50).

Industrial activities involving processing, distribution, recycling, cleaning, assembling, packaging, conversion, production, repair or testing of materials or products if the Zoning Hearing Board determines that the character of such activities would be similar to uses that are permitted by right or by special exception in the I-1 District, but not including uses that are specifically prohibited.[1]

The following uses, provided that all manufacturing and storage areas will be set back a minimum of 400 feet from any existing dwelling or residential district boundary and is on a lot within a minimum lot area of 10 acres:

Kennel, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(22).

On-site retail sales of products and/or goods produced on the premises of a principal use and limited to a maximum of 5% of the floor area of a building.

Public utility uses, such as telephone exchange buildings and electric substations, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(33).

Horse stable.

Manufacture of bituminous materials other than asphalt.

Manufacture of soaps, detergents and water-based adhesives.

Tower-based wireless communications facilities, subject to compliance with § 255-199A(50).

Tar distillation or manufacture.

Coke oven.

Creosote treatment or manufacture.

Explosives, fireworks, ammunition and gunpowder manufacture.

Bulk storage, except storage within a United States military or state-owned facility.

Incineration, reduction, distillation, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, bones, dead animals or offal. (See incineration of waste as part of a solid waste disposal facility, as defined in § 255-12.)

Bulk manufacture of industrial gases or chemicals which the applicant does not prove to the satisfaction of the Zoning Hearing Board are not highly hazardous, including but not limited to the following acids: hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulfuric, sulfanilic or carbolic.

Oilcloth manufacture.

Raw paper or pulp mill.

Petroleum or kerosene refining or distillation.

Potash work.

Stockyard, slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant.

Manufacture of asphalt or cement.

Bulk storage of natural gas or gasoline as a principal use.

Parking and loading: (see Article XXV).

Performance regulations: (see Article XXIII).

Requirements for specific uses: (see Article XXIV).

Enclosure: All manufacturing and processing shall occur within completely enclosed structures.