I-2 General Industrial Districts are designed primarily for manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication activities including large scale or specialized industrial operations, whose external physical effects will be felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 district is so structured as to permit the manufacturing, processing, and compounding of semi-finished or finished products from raw materials as well as from previously prepared material.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1300, 5-2-2005)

In an I-2 General Industrial District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this article:

(1)

Any principal use first permitted in an I-1 district.

(2)

Heating and electric power generating plants.

(3)

Any of the following production or manufacturing uses (not including storage of finished products) provided that any structures or storage areas are located not less than 800 feet from any residential district and not less than 300 feet from any other district:

a.

Blast furnace, steel furnace, blooming or rolling mill.

b.

Manufacture of corrosive acid or alkali, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris.

c.

Petroleum or other inflammable liquids, production, refining, or storage.

d.

Smelting of copper, iron or zinc ore.

(4)

Any other use which shall be determined by the city council, after recommendation from the planning commission, to be of the same general character as the permitted uses in section 44-319. The city council, after recommendation from the planning commission, may impose any required setback or performance standards so as to insure public health, safety and general welfare.

(5)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1301, 5-2-2005)

All storage shall be in the rear yard and shall be completely screened with an obscuring wall or fence, not less than six feet high, or with a chainlink type fence and a greenbelt planting so as to obscure all view from any adjacent residential, office, or business district or from a public street.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1302, 5-2-2005)

For area and bulk requirements, see article XVII of this chapter, Schedule of Regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land uses, and providing minimum yard setback requirements.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1303, 5-2-2005)

The following principal uses shall be permitted, subject to special conditions:

(1)

Outdoor theaters, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(19).

(2)

Correctional facilities, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(8).

(3)

Communication towers affixed directly to the ground, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(6).

(4)

Communication towers affixed to existing structures, subject to the conditions of section 44-711(5).

(5)

Overhead or underground lines and necessary poles and towers to be erected to service primarily those areas beyond the city. Such review shall consider abutting property and uses as they relate to easements, rights-of-way, and overhead lines, poles and towers and, further, shall consider injurious effects on property abutting or adjacent thereto and on the orderly appearance of the city. Essential services primarily for residents of the city shall be subject to the provisions of section 44-538.

(6)

Medical marihuana facilities subject to the conditions of article IV, chapter 8 of City of Caro Ordinances, sections 8-29 to 8-30.

(7)

Adult use marihuana establishments, subject to the conditions of chapter 8 of City of Caro Ordinances, sections 8-50 to 8-68.

(8)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses.

(Ord. No. 401, § 1303, 5-2-2005; Ord. No. 475, § 4, 12-2-2019; Ord. No. 479, 5-17-2023)