This district is intended to accommodate wholesaling, distribution, storage, processing and light manufacturing. Certain related structures and uses required to serve the needs of such uses are permitted outright or are permissible as special exceptions subject to restrictions and requirements intended to best fulfill the intent of this ordinance. This district does not allow any industry or use which creates corrosive, toxic or noisome fumes, gas, smoke or odor or obnoxious dust, vapor or offensive noise or vibration. The uses included must be approved as a Specific Use Permit when located on a 40-acre or larger tract in accordance with Chapter 22. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

Principal uses permitted in the IL Light Industrial district are as follows:

   A.   Light Manufacturing and Industry

      1.   Aircraft Assembly and Subassembly

      2.   Aircraft Repairs, Maintenance Instruction and Training

      3.   Apparel and Other Finished Products Made From: fabrics, leather, similar materials

      4.   Automotive Painting

      5.   Bakery Products - Manufacturing

      6.   Blacksmithing

      7.   Bottling Plant

      8.   Brooms and Brushes - Manufacturing

      9.   Building Contract Construction Service and Storage:

      10.   Cesspool Cleaning

      11.   Concrete Construction Service

      12.   Heavy Construction, Equipment Storage/Parking

      13.   Heating, Contracting Construction Service

      14.   Insulation Contractor

      15.   Masonry

      16.   Oil Well Drilling and Cleaning Contracting Service

      17.   Roofing

      18.   Sheet Metal

      19.   Spray Painting

      20.   Stonework

      21.   Water Well Drilling and Cleaning

      25.   Bus Maintenance Shop

      26.   Candle Manufacturing

      27.   Candling or Processing Plant

      28.   Clothes Manufacturing

      29.   Cold Storage Plants

      30.   Communication Equipment, Including Radio Television Receiving Sets

      31.   Manufacturing: Costume Jewelry, Costume Novelties, Buttons and Miscellaneous Notions (except precious materials) - Manufacturing

      32.   Drug - Manufacturing

      33.   Dry Cleaning/Laundry - Industrial

      34.   Freight Terminals

      35.   Furniture Packing and Crating

      36.   Garment Manufacturing

      37.   Ice Manufacturing

      38.   Laundry Service (Non-personal goods)

      39.   Machine Shop

      40.   Mattress and Bedding Renovator

      41.   Mattress Manufacturing

      42.   Motor Freight Depot/Terminal

      43.   Motion Picture Production

      44.   Musical Instruments and Parts - Manufacturing

      45.   Office, Computing and Accounting Machines - Manufacturing

      46.   Paint and Other Solvent Use

      47.   Pens, Pencils, and Other Office and Artist Materials - Manufacturing

      48.   Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

      49.   Pottery and Figurines or Other Similar Ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas

      50.   Printing, Publishing and Allied Industries

      51.   Professional, Scientific and Controlling Instruments, Photographic and Optical

      52.   Goods, Watches and Clocks - Manufacturing

      53.   Produce Markets Wholesale

      54.   Roasting Coffee and Coffee Products - Manufacturing

      55.   Truck Freight Terminal (repair and storage of commercial contract carriers)

      56.   Umbrellas, Parasols and Canes - Manufacturing

      57.   Welding Equipment and Supply Manufacturing

      58.   Welding Shop

      59.   Wrecker Service and Storage of Abandoned or Inoperative Vehicles reclaimed from Highway/Streets for 60 days or less (excludes salvaged or dismantled vehicles) (Specific Use Condition)

   B.   Wholesaling, warehousing, storage, supply and distribution.

   C.   Truck terminals, freight terminals and passenger terminals

   D.   Outdoor storage lots and yards, except automobile junk yards, scrap yards, salvage yards, or yards used in whole or in part for scrap or salvage operations or for processing, storage, display or sales of junk, scrap or salvaged materials

   E.   Radio and television stations

   F.   Commercial printing and job printing

   G.   Parking lots and parking garages

   H.   Utilities substations

   I.   Signs subject to the provisions of Chapter 15

   Use Conditions

      1.   The uses included when located on a lot which is abutting an R District, shall be screened from the abutting R District by the erection and maintenance of a screening wall or fence along the lot line or lines in common with the R District.

      2.   Wrecker Service and Storage of Abandoned or Inoperative Vehicles reclaimed from Highway/Streets for 60 days or less, Vehicles shall have a screening wall or fence with a minimum of eight (8) feet in height.

      3.   All parking areas and drives shall be paved with an All Weather Surface as otherwise required by this Code. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

   A.   Dwelling units in connection with permitted or permissible uses or structures, located on the same premises therewith, provided that such dwelling units shall be occupied only by owners or employees of such uses.

   B.   Signs subject to the provisions of Chapter 15.

   C.   Other structures and uses which:

      1.   Are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted principal uses and structures;

      2.   Are located wholly on the same lot as the permitted principal use or structure, or on a contiguous lot in the same ownership;

      3.   Do not involve operations not in keeping with the character of the area.

   D.   Fire stations. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

The following uses may be permitted as special exceptions by the Board of Adjustment in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 18.

   A.   Business schools and vocational schools not involving uses of an industrial nature which would not otherwise be permitted in this district.

   B.   Dwelling units with densities and building placements which are compatible with the character of the surrounding area.

   C.   Temporary borrow pits for fill dirt and top soil. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

12-1040   12-1050

The following uses may be permitted as Specific Use Permit by the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 22.

   A.   Mini-storage. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

   A.   Front yard - The depth of the required front yard shall be determined in the following manner: measured from the centerline of the abutting street, add ½ of the right-of-way designated on the Major Street Plan or 25 feet if not designated on the Major Street Plan, to a setback of thirty-five (35) feet on arterial streets and twenty-five (25) feet on non-arterial streets. When a lot has double frontage, the front yard requirements shall be provided on both streets.

   B.   Side yard:

      1.   On the side of an interior lot or the interior side of a corner lot which abut a residential district, a side yard of not less than twenty (20) feet shall be provided.

      2.   On any corner lot, the depth of the required exterior side yard shall be determined in the following manner: measured from the centerline of the abutting street, add ½ of the right-of-way designated in the Major Street Plan, or 25 feet if not designated on the Major Street Plan, to a setback distance of thirty-five (35) feet on arterial streets and twenty (20) feet for non-arterial streets.

      3.   In all other cases, no side yard is required if the buildings are built to the side lot line, otherwise at least three (3) feet of side yard width shall be provided.

   C.   Rear yard - When the IL zoned property abuts residentially zoned property, or the properties are separated only there from by an alley or easement, there shall be a rear yard of not less than fifteen (15) feet, and if the building is to be serviced from the rear, then there shall be a rear yard requirement of thirty (30) feet. Unattached buildings of accessory use shall be setback five (5) feet from the utility easement or alley line, whichever is greater. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No minimum lot area required except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No minimum lot width required except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No limitation except as needed to meet other requirements herein. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)

No building shall exceed forty (40) feet in height. (Ord. 20-03-02, 3-2-2020)