The F intermediate manufacturing district is designed to accommodate those manufacturing establishments which are either free of objectionable influences in their operation or which can readily obviate or control any objectionable features which may otherwise result from the manufacturing processes.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   The following principal uses are permitted outright in an F intermediate manufacturing district.

   (a)   E uses. Any principal use permitted outright and any principal conditional use as regulated in the E district, except as hereinafter modified.

   (b)   Other manufacturing uses, general provisions. Any manufacturing use may be permitted outright, in the F district, which is not prohibited by this article.

   (c)   Nonmanufacturing uses. The following uses are authorized but shall be subject to certain hereinafter prescribed stipulations.

      (1)   Automobile salvage and wrecking operations. Including industrial metal and waste salvage operations and junkyard, if located not less than 200 feet from any residence district; provided, that all operations are conducted with an area enclosed on all sides fronting on a public street with a solid wall or uniform tight board fence, not less than eight feet high; and provided further, that the operation shall not be visible from the nearest street. Any gates shall be designed so the operation is not visible from the street.

      (2)   Crematory. If located not less than 200 feet from any residence district.

      (3)   Railroad yard and major freight station. If located not less than 200 feet from any residence district, subject to approval of Traffic Engineer.

      (4)   Coal, coke and wood yards. Provided the premises are enclosed on all sides fronting on a public street by a solid wall or fence at least eight feet high. Any gates shall be designed so the operation is not visible from the street; provided further, that the yard is located not less than 200 feet from any residence district.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   Any use, building or structure, customarily incidental to a principal use permitted outright in an F intermediate manufacturing district, shall be an accessory use permitted outright.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   Any use, building or structure customarily incidental to a principal conditional use in an F intermediate manufacturing district shall be a conditional accessory use.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968)

   The following uses are prohibited in a F intermediate manufacturing district.

   (a)   Dwellings. Dwellings and residences of any kind, including motels and trailer parks, also schools, hospitals, clinics and other institutions of human care, except where they are incidental to a permitted principal use; provided, that any of the aforesaid uses legally existing in the F district on April 26, 1968, or at the time of adoption of any amendment thereto, shall not be classified as a nonconforming use.

   (b)   Business and services. Retail business, personal and business service establishments of any kind, except the following:

      (1)   Restaurants or cafeterias and refreshments or tobacco stands where incidental and accessory to principal use;

      (2)   Animal hospitals;

      (3)   Storage and equipment yards;

      (4)   Automobile service stations and repair garages; and

      (5)   Union halls.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968; Ord. 2691, passed 2-12-1979)

   All uses authorized in this article shall be subject to the following conditions.

   (a)   Enclosures. Any business, service, repair, processing, storage or display, whether principal or accessory, if not conducted wholly within an enclosed building, shall be enclosed by a solid wall or fence six feet high or a chain link fence at least six feet high with a six-foot planting buffer maintained in a healthy condition where such use abuts, adjoins or faces, either directly or across a street alley or other public open space, any residence district.

   (b)   Night operations. No building customarily used for night operations shall have any opening, other than stationary windows or fire exits within 100 feet of any residence district and no loading dock used in connection with such operation shall be located within 100 feet of any residence district.

(Ord. 2046, passed 4-11-1968; Ord. 2845, passed 7-26-1982)