This district is intended to provide for a variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing and warehousing uses appropriately located for access by highways and providing a controlled environment within which signing is limited, uses are to be conducted generally within completely enclosed buildings or within screened areas, and a moderate amount of landscaping is required. In order to preserve the land for industry, to reduce extraneous traffic and avoid future conflicts between industry and other uses, business and service uses are limited primarily to those which will be useful to employees in the district and future residential uses are restricted.

(Code 1972, § 30-83; Code 1992, § 30-105; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-83, 9-7-2004)

In the I-1 Limited Industrial District, structures to be erected, or land to be used, shall be for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Retail and service establishments as follows:

a.

Automobile service station.

b.

Banks and savings and loan offices.

c.

Business and office supply establishments.

d.

Clinics, medical or dental.

e.

Churches and other places of worship.

f.

Employment service or agency.

g.

Janitorial or exterminating service.

h.

Offices and office buildings, studios and the like, business, professional or administrative.

i.

Restaurant or cafeteria, drive-in or otherwise.

j.

Security service office or station.

k.

Retail or wholesale sales and service incidental to a permitted manufacturing, processing, storing or distributing use.

(2)

Generally those light manufacturing uses similar to those listed below which do not create any more danger to health and safety in surrounding areas and which do not create any more offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, lint, odor, heat, glare, or electrical impulse than that which is generally associated with light industries of the types specifically permitted below:

a.

Manufacture or assembly of spacecraft or component parts, medical and dental equipment, drafting, optical and musical instruments, watches, clocks, toys, games, electrical or electronic apparatus and communication equipment.

b.

Manufacture or assembly of boats, boat trailers, bolts, buttons, nuts, screws and rivets, firearms, photographic and metering equipment, electrical appliances, tools, dies, machinery and hardware products, sheet metal products, heating, cooling and ventilating equipment, and vitreous enameled products.

c.

Beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, candy manufacture, tobacco products, dairy products and ice cream, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, meat and poultry products, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of poultry or animals, or processing or bulk storage of grain or feeds for animals or poultry.

d.

Manufacture of rugs, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, shoes and leather products, printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.

e.

Manufacture of boxes, furniture, cabinets, baskets and other wood products of similar nature.

f.

Compounding of cosmetics, toiletries, drugs and pharmaceutical products.

g.

Molding of candles and soap.

h.

Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products, from previously pulverized clay, and in kilns fired only by smokeless furnaces.

In cases of doubt regarding the nature of a process or use, the administrator may require an engineering report describing the process or use and the probable impact thereof at property lines in terms of the factors listed above or other significant factors as may be associated with a particular process or use or may require a conditional use permit.

(3)

Agriculture and forestry use as permitted in the A Agricultural District.

(4)

Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises, including a family and one unrelated individual per unit; other single-family or two-family dwellings, including a family and up to two unrelated individuals per unit, with a conditional use permit.

(5)

Automobile and truck or recreation vehicle assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding or reconditioning, body or fender work, including a commercial garage, towing service, or automobile body shop, with a conditional use permit. This shall not include an auto salvage or junkyard.

(6)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, transmission lines, telephone booths and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communication service; communications antennas; amateur radio towers; meters and pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer or water service; treatment facilities; pumping and regulatory stations. Communications monopoles and towers and major transmission are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(7)

Greenhouse or nursery, commercial, wholesale or retail.

(8)

Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, excluding animals and explosives.

(9)

Lumber and building materials store, wholesale or retail, but not a lumberyard or manufacture of brick or concrete blocks.

(10)

Monument sales establishments with incidental processing to order, but not including shaping of headstones.

(11)

Printing, publishing and engraving establishment, photographic processing, blueprinting, photocopying and similar uses.

(12)

Private club, lodge, meeting hall, labor union or fraternal organization or sorority, with a conditional use permit.

(13)

Public buildings to consist of fire, police and rescue squad stations and recreational facilities. Private buildings to consist of recreational facilities, with a conditional use permit.

(14)

Radio or television broadcasting studios and offices.

(15)

Railroad spur tracks or mainline.

(16)

Rug and carpet cleaning and storage with incidental sales of rugs and carpets.

(17)

Sign fabricating and painting.

(18)

Tire rebuilding or recapping.

(19)

Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouse or distribution warehouse, but not a truck or truck freight terminal.

(20)

Off-street parking and loading.

(21)

Signs in accordance with the sign ordinance in article XXIV, signs.

(22)

Accessory buildings and uses, including, but not limited to, the following:

a.

Dwellings accessory to a farm of ten acres or more, including a family and up to two unrelated individuals per unit.

b.

Retail and service facilities inside a principal building for the use of occupants thereof and occupants of other buildings in the industrial development. Retail and service facilities may include barbershops, beauty parlors, dining rooms, newsstands, restaurants, tobacco, drugs and sundries.

c.

Storage of supplies, merchandise, equipment or goods normally carried in stock, used or produced in connection with a permitted office, business, commercial or industrial use subject to applicable district regulations.

(23)

Industrialized building units for permitted business, agricultural, limited industrial, institutional, security or construction purposes, with a conditional use permit. Conditional use permits shall not be required for construction trailers on active construction sites.

(24)

Miniwarehouses.

(25)

Recycling collection center with a zoning permit application and plan of operation approved by the administrator. The administrator may refer any proposed collection center application to the town planning commission or health official or both for their advice as to the desirability, practicability or health affects of any such center before issuing a zoning permit to any collection center applicant. Collection center zoning permits may be revoked at any time by the administrator or health official when such recycling center poses a threat to public safety, health or general welfare.

(26)

Plumbing and electrical supply with storage under cover.

(27)

Portable storage containers, in accordance with section 42-662.

(28)

Public billiard parlors and poolrooms, game rooms, bowling alleys, skating rinks, indoor and outdoor shooting ranges, paintball courses, and similar forms of public amusement, with a conditional use permit.

(29)

Loudspeaker/sound amplification/outdoor sound system to be used in excess of the town's noise ordinance, with a conditional use permit.

(Code 1972, § 30-84; Code 1992, § 30-106; Ord. of 6-20-1989; Ord. of 7-2-1991; Ord. of 12-17-1991(1); Ord. of 6-2-1998; Ord. No. 2000-2, 4-18-2000; Ord. No. 2001-1, 4-17-2001; Ord. No. 2004-2, 5-18-2004; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-84, 9-7-2004; Ord. No. 2007-1, 4-3-2007; Ord. No. 2008-6, 12-2-2008; Ord. No. 2012-2, § 30-106, 2-21-2012; Ord. No. 2012-6, § 30-106, 6-19-2012; Ord. No. 2012-10, § 30-106, 11-20-2012; Ord. No. 2017-7, 9-12-2017; Ord. No. 2018-4, 4-24-2018; Ord. No. 2019-4, 3-12-2019)

(a)

Plans; site plan. Before a building permit shall be used or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district or a permit issued for a new use, the plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, together with a site plan as required herein, shall be submitted to the administrator for review.

(b)

Similar uses permitted. Other manufacturing uses which, in the opinion of the administrator, are of the same general character as those permitted uses listed above shall be permitted. All uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable or offensive conditions at property line boundaries by reason of odor, dust, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, wastes, fire or explosion.

(c)

Enclosed buildings. All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building of permanent and durable construction, with no open storage of waste material. Products or equipment used or manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened from the street or from a residential district by landscaping, fences or walls.

(d)

Landscaping. Any part of the front yard not used for parking or accessways shall be landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs or pedestrian walks. The front yard shall contain a minimum of 20 percent greenspace or landscaped area. For duplexes for individual sale, the greenspace or landscaped area in the front yard shall be maintained at a ratio of 20 percent for each dwelling unit on each lot. For this purpose, corner lots shall be deemed to contain a minimum of 20 percent greenspace or landscaped area in each yard fronting a public street.

(e)

Site plan. The plan for the site shall be designed to promote careful use of topography and to promote harmonious relationships with adjacent and nearby residential and business properties, developed or undeveloped, and, to this end, may provide effective screening along side and rear property lines by means of fences, walls, hedges, planting screen or natural vegetation.

(f)

Refuse. Refuse containers or refuse storage shall be located in a paved area and hidden from general public view, either from within or outside the premises, by means of fences, walls or landscaping planting.

(g)

Drainage. Provision shall be made for proper stormwater drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property, except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement. Provision shall be made for protection against erosion and sedimentation in accord with applicable town ordinances.

(h)

Fencing. All fencing shall have a uniform and durable character and shall be properly maintained.

(Code 1972, § 30-85; Code 1992, § 30-107; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-85, 9-7-2004)

(a)

For permitted uses utilizing individual sewerage disposal systems, the required area shall be determined and approved by the health official.

(b)

Required lot area for dwellings shall adhere to the requirements of the R3 Multiple-Family Residential District, unless such dwelling is part of the industrial building or structure.

(Code 1972, § 30-86; Code 1992, § 30-108; Ord. of 6-20-1989; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-86, 9-7-2004)

Structures, temporary or permanent, shall be located 30 feet or more from any street right-of-way, or, in the event that buildings are already constructed on the same side of the street in the block, no new structure shall be closer to the street right-of-way line than a distance equal to the average of the distance to the street right-of-way of all existing structures in the same block on the same side of the street. This shall be known as the setback line. See article XVII for special setback regulations pertaining to the widening of highways and streets. See section 42-15 for special regulations pertaining to structural projections into the minimum required setback. Parking lots shall have a minimum setback of 15 feet from any street right-of-way. Restaurant outdoor dining areas shall have a minimum setback of 15 feet from any street right-of-way.

(Code 1972, § 30-87; Code 1992, § 30-109; Ord. of 4-3-1990; Ord. of 6-2-1998; Ord. No. 2002-2, 3-5-2002; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-87, 9-7-2004; Ord. No. 2007-1, 4-3-2007; Ord. No. 2020-4, 1-12-2021)

(a)

The minimum lot width at the setback line shall be 100 feet.

(b)

The minimum side yard for each main structure shall be a minimum of 40 feet. The side yard of corner lots shall be 30 feet or more.

(c)

Each main structure shall have a rear yard of not less than 40 feet.

(d)

No building or structure shall be located closer than 40 feet to the boundary of a residential district.

(e)

Residential development shall comply with all frontage, lot, yard and development standards for similar development in the R-3 Multiple-Family Residential District, unless such dwelling is part of the industrial building or structure.

(f)

Structural projections into minimum required yards shall be permitted in accordance with section 42-15.

(Code 1972, § 30-88; Code 1992, § 30-110; Ord. of 6-20-1989; Ord. of 6-2-1998; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-88, 9-7-2004; Ord. No. 2007-1, 4-3-2007; Ord. No. 2012-6, § 30-110, 6-19-2012; Ord. No. 2020-4, 1-12-2021)

Impervious surfaces may cover up to 80 percent of the area of the lot. The front yard shall contain a minimum of 20 percent greenspace or landscaped area.

(Code 1972, § 30-89; Code 1992, § 30-111; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-89, 9-7-2004)

Buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height from street grade or lot grade at setback line, whichever is greater; except, that:

(1)

The height limit may be increased up to 70 feet provided the building is set back from all lot lines at least ten feet for each five feet of height over 35 feet.

(2)

Cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues and flagpoles shall be exempt from this section.

(3)

Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

(Code 1972, § 30-90; Code 1992, § 30-112; Ord. No. 2004-4, § 30-90, 9-7-2004)