(1) INTENT. The I-2 Heavy Industrial District is intended to provide areas for activities and uses of a heavy industrial character, which permits the manufacturing or treatment of any goods from raw materials or any other activity with which hazardous processes, products, or fumes are associated. It is the least restrictive of any district.

(2) PRINCIPAL USES. The following shall be principal uses by right when located within a building or structure that conforms with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations:

(a) Concrete batch plant, cement, clay, or pottery products manufacturing.

(b) Contractors construction equipment storage.

(c) Beverage bottling or distribution.

(d) Food processing and packaging.

(e) Fuel storage yards.

(f) Machine shops.

(g) Manufacturing or assembly of component parts.

(h) Mobile or modular home manufacturing.

(i) Raising of field crops and horticulture.

(j) Sawmills or planing mills, including manufacturing or wood products not involving chemical treatment.

(k) Terminal yards, trucking.

(l) Truck and tractor repair.

(m) Wholesale distribution and warehousing.

It is further intended that structures or activities proposing to locate in any of the areas designated Heavy Industrial shall certify to the Planning Commission and the City Council that the activities conducted in the aforementioned areas shall conform to the pollution control standards in existence for the State of Nebraska. No use shall be permitted that does not conform to these minimum pollution control standards.

(3) PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES. The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted if a principal use or structure is present:

(a) A dwelling unit, including a mobile home, for use by the owner, operator, or caretaker of the industry.

(b) Other uses normally appurtenant to the permitted uses when established in conformance with the space limits of this district.

(4) SPECIAL EXCEPTION USES. A building or premises may be used for the following purposes in the I-2 Heavy Industrial District if a special use permit for such use has been obtained in accordance with section 11-230:

(a) Animal sales yards, auctions, and slaughter locker plant operations.

(b) Auto wrecking and salvaging operations thereof, sufficiently screened from public view.

(c) Composting facilities.

(d) Gravel, sand, or dirt removal, stockpiling, processing, or distribution and sales thereof.

(e) One additional dwelling unit (in addition to that allowed under permitted accessory uses), including a mobile home, for use by the owner, operator, or caretaker of the industry.

(f) Outdoor advertising businesses.

(g) Outdoor storage containers.

(h) Retail sales of products constructed on-site.

(i) Alternative energy systems utilizing biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, or wind sources in conformance with net metering per Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 70-2001 to 70-2005 (August 30, 2009, as amended) and shall also be in conformance with the provisions of sections 11-525 and 11-526.

(j) Co-location of additional cellular or communication antennas on an existing tower in conformance with the provisions of section 11-528.

(5) PROHIBITED USES. All other uses and structures, which are not specifically permitted or not permissible as special exception uses, shall be prohibited from the I-2 Heavy Industrial District.

(6) SPACE LIMITATIONS. All principal or accessory structures housing a use permitted only in the I-2 Heavy Industrial District shall be located at least two hundred feet from any residential or commercial district boundary and not less than one hundred feet from any other district, except an I-1 Light Industrial District, boundary.

(a) The maximum height and minimum lot requirements within the I-2 Heavy Industrial District shall be as follows:

(7) MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. The best practical means known for the disposal of refuse matter or water-carried waste and the abatement of obnoxious or offensive odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, or similar nuisance shall be employed.

(8) SIGN REGULATIONS. Signs within the I-2 Heavy Industrial District shall be in conformance with the Sign Regulations.

(9) PARKING REGULATIONS. Parking within the I-2 Heavy Industrial District shall be in conformance with the provisions of section 11-508.

(10) FENCE REGULATIONS. Fences within the I-2 Heavy Industrial District shall be in conformance with the provisions of section 11-502.

Source: Ord. 1142 (1991); Ord. 1400 (1998); Ord. 1926 (2015); Ord. 2022 (2017); Ord. 2056 (2019); Ord. 2119 (2021)