The General Industrial District is intended to permit uses for large scale facilities not otherwise permitted which have potential significant external impacts to adjacent properties. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)

Any use or structure permitted and as regulated in the I-1 District, except as hereinafter modified.

Railroad yards.

   (A)   The following uses if located not less than four hundred feet (400') from any R District and not less than two hundred feet (200') from any other district except an I-1 District, and provided that any such operations are one thousand feet (1,000') from any State or Federal highway, and provided all operations are conducted within an area enclosed on all sides with a solid masonry wall not less than twelve feet (12') high, and which wall shall be maintained to the satisfaction of the building inspector. No pile of salvage, scrap or other material shall be higher than twelve feet (12').

      Automobile salvage and wrecking operations.

      Industrial metal and waste salvage operations and junkyards.

   (B)   The following uses if located not less than four hundred feet (400') from any R District and not less than two hundred feet (200') from any other district except an I-1 District, and provided no part of a building occupied by such uses shall have any openings, other than stationary windows or required fire exits.

      Foundry, casting lightweight nonferrous metals of electric foundry not causing noxious fumes or odors.

      Planing mill and veneer manufacturing.

   (C)   The following uses if located not less than four hundred feet (400') from any R District and not less than two hundred feet (200') from any other district except an I-1 District:

      Acetylene manufacturing in excess of fifteen (15) pounds pressure per square inch.

      Acid manufacture.

      Aircraft, assembly and testing.

      Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture.

      Animal black, lampblack, boneblack or graphite manufacture.

      Asbestos manufacturing.

      Asphalt or asphalt products manufacture.

      Asphaltic concrete, and similar construction debris.

      Automobile, tractor, trailer, farm implement assembly or manufacturing.

      Blast furnaces, steel works or rolling mills.

      Bleaching, cleaning and dyeing plant.

      Boiler shops, machine shops, structural steel fabricating shops, railway car or locomotive.

      Box, crate, and pallet manufacture.

      Cans and other types of containers.

      Celluloid or pyroxyline manufacturing, or explosive or inflammable celluloid or pyroxyline products manufacturing or storage.

      Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture.

      Concrete products, including manufacture and sale of the following: concrete block, ready mix.

      Copperage works.

      Creosote manufacture or treatment.

      Dextrine, starch of glucose manufacturing.

      Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacturing.

      Distillation of coal, petroleum, grain, wood or bones, except in the manufacture of gas.

      Dye and dyestuff manufacture.

      Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacturing.

      Enamelling, lacquering or japanning.

      Explosives manufacture or storage except for small arms ammunition.

      Felt manufacturing.

      Fertilizer, compost manufacture or storage.

      Fish oil manufacture or refining.

      Flammable liquids storage not to exceed a total of twenty five thousand (25,000) gallons.

      Flour or grain mill.

      Forge or foundry works.

      Gas generation or storage for illumination or heating.

      Gelatin, vegetable and animal manufacture.

      Grain drying or poultry feed manufacturing, from refuse, mash or grain.

      Grain elevators.

      Hair or hair products manufacturing.

      Hemp products manufacture.

      Lime or lime products manufacturing.

      Linoleum, oil cloth or oiled goods manufacturing.

      Match manufacturing.

      Meatpacking and processing including storage for wholesale, but not open air stockyards.

      Metal stamping and extrusion.

      Mixed concrete, precast concrete and other products made from the same materials.

      Oil, paint, shellac, turpentine, varnish or enamel manufacturing.

      Paper and pulp manufacturing.

      Petroleum or flammable liquids production, refining and storage aboveground.

      Pickle, sauerkraut and sausage manufacturing.

      Pipe and tube manufacturing.

      Plaster manufacturing.

      Poultry slaughterhouse, including packing and storage for wholesale.

      Printing ink manufacturing.

      Railroad yards.

      Recycling drop off station.

      Recycling of aggregate materials including the recycling of Portland cement concrete.

      Rock crushing.

      Rubber, caoutchouc or guttapercha manufacturing and treatment from crude or scrap material or the manufacture of balata.

      Sandblasting or cutting.

      Sawmill, the manufacture of excelsior, wood fiber or sawdust products.

      Screw or bolt manufacturing.

      Sewer disposal plant or incinerator or sanitary landfill operation except by the Municipality.

      Shoe polish or stove polish manufacturing.

      Shops, including repair, metalworking shops.

      Smelting of ferrous or nonferrous ores.

      Soap manufacturing.

      Steam power plant, except where accessory to a permitted principal use.

      Stone and monument works employing power drive tools.

      Storage, curing or tanning of raw, green or salted hides or skins when refrigerated storage is provided.

      Structural steel fabrication.

      Sugar refining.

      Sulphurous, sulfuric, nitric, picric, carbolic or hydrochloric or other corrosive acid manufacture.

      Tar distillation or manufacturing.

      Tar or asphalt or waterproofing manufacturing.

      Tool manufacturing and repair.

      Vinegar manufacturing.

      Wire or rod drawing nut.

      Yeast manufacturing.

      Any other use which, in the opinion of the Board of Zoning Appeals is of similar character to those specified above.

   (D)   The following uses if located not less than one thousand feet (1,000') of the following specified uses or zones:

      1.   From any Residential, Commercial and/or Conservation Zone.

      2.   From any public or private school or licensed day care center.

      3.   From any church or religious center.

      4.   From any public park or a City designated pedestrian/bike path.

   To prevent such uses from having an adverse effect upon the adjacent areas in an I-2 District, not more than two (2) such uses shall be established within one thousand feet (1,000') of each other, within said I-2 District.

   Adult regulated uses (see chapter 4, "General Provisions", of this title).

   (E)   Shall be permitted without exception:

      Solar farm. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)

Permitted accessory uses in an I-1 District.

Other necessary uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use, including signs as regulated by City ordinance and State Statutes, whichever is more restrictive. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)

Disposal or storage of toxic waste.

Dwellings, except for watchman or caretaker on the premises.

Schools, hospitals, clinics and other institutions for human care except when incidental to a permitted principal use. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed, subject to chapter 28, "Additional Requirements, Exceptions And Modifications", of this title:

 

 

(Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)

   (A)   A special use may be permitted only after a public hearing before the Plan Commission, and only upon the presentation of evidence by the applicant that the proposed use:

      1.   Will be located in an area which will have minimum impact upon neighboring properties; and

      2.   Will be located in an area without the creation of nuisances or hazards to the public health or safety; and

      3.   Such operation complies with all other existing laws, ordinances and rules properly promulgated by any Federal, State or local governmental entity having jurisdiction over the subject premises.

   (B)   Proposed uses requiring a special use permit include:

A limestone quarry that would consist of land that would be quarried for the extraction of limestone and other related and similar stone products, and all other normal and routine activities associated with such a quarry.

   (C)   Such other special uses as approved by ordinance and adopted by the City Council that are properly brought before the Corporate Authorities pursuant to formal application and duly approved. Such other special uses include:

Adult Use Cannabis Craft Grower.

Adult Use Cannabis Cultivation Center.

Adult Use Cannabis Dispensing Organization.

Adult Use Cannabis Infuser Organization.

Adult Use Transporting Organization.

Adult Use Processing Organization.

Excavation and extraction of sand, gravel, dirt, topsoil and other resources.

Landfill, recycling and activities directly related thereto.

Mineral extraction.

Prison or correctional center. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019; amd. Ord. 19-28, 10-21-2019)

An establishment which has the potential to be dangerous or extremely obnoxious. Included are those in which explosives are stored, petroleum is refined, natural and liquid gas and other petroleum derivatives are stored and/or distributed in bulk, radioactive materials are compounded, pesticides and certain acids are manufactured, and hazardous waste is treated or stored as the establishment's principal activity.

Aviation facilities, private and public.

Shooting range.

Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the Board of Zoning Appeals. (Ord. 18-08, 6-3-2019)