The I-3 district is intended to provide areas of the city for activities and uses of a heavy industrial character. This district is designed to accommodate industrial uses which have significant external effects. These uses typically have operating characteristics and environmental effects that make them incompatible with surrounding uses. The I-3 district is most appropriately located in areas that are separated from residential and consumer-oriented commercial districts.

(Ord. 5958 § 1, 2007)

The following principal uses shall be permitted outright in an I-3 district:

1. Agricultural sales and service;
2. Chemical plant;
3. Electric utility generation facility;
4. Governmental maintenance facility;
5. Grain storage and distribution;
6. Horticulture and crop production;
7. Local utility service;
8. Manufacturing, general and heavy;
9. Railroad yard and intermodal facilities;
10. Sign manufacturing;
11. Truck service establishment;
12. Truck terminal;
13. Warehousing and distribution, limited and general; and
14. Solar energy conversion systems;
    
15. Consumer fireworks sales.
    

(Ord. 5958 § 2, 2007)

The following conditional uses shall be permitted in an I-3 district in accordance with the requirements set forth in CBMC 15.27:

1. Rubble dump;
2. Meat packing and processing.

(Ord. 5958 § 3, 2007)

The following accessory uses shall be permitted in the I-3 district:

1. Uses of land or structure customarily incidental and subordinate to one of the principal uses, unless otherwise excluded.

(Ord. 5366 § 5 (part), 1998)

Minimum Lot Size

(Ord. 5958 § 4, 2007)

1. The maximum height of a structure shall be as limited by CBMC 15.22.050, except in cases where smokestacks or towers are integral to a legally established electric utility generation facility. In such cases, the height shall be unlimited, provided an area equal to the maximum height of the tallest part of the structure can be maintained from all of the property lines of the parcel of land on which the facility is located.
2. Consumer fireworks sales from a temporary structure shall not be located within three hundred (300) feet of a residential structure.
   

(Ord. 5958 § 5, 2007)

Signage in this district shall comply with CBMC 15.33, Signs.

(Ord. 5366 § 5 (part), 1998)