The G heavy manufacturing district is intended to accommodate those heavy industries which cannot eliminate entirely objectionable features and influences but which, nevertheless, must be provided for somewhere in the City.

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

   The following principal uses are permitted outright in a G heavy manufacturing district.

   (a)   Any principal use permitted in the F district and the following uses that are not subject to distance requirements may be located anywhere in the G district:

      (1)   Acetylene manufacturing in excess of 15 pounds pressure per square inch;

      (2)   Acid manufacture;

      (3)   Asbestos manufacturing;

      (4)   Automobile assembly;

      (5)   Bleaching, cleaning and dyeing plant;

      (6)   Boiler shops, structural steel fabricating shops, railway car or locomotive shops, including repair metal working shops employing reciprocating hammers or presses over 20 tons rated capacity;

      (7)   Brewing or distilling of liquor;

      (8)   Brick, pottery, tile and terra cotta manufacturing;

      (9)   Candle or sperm oil manufacturing;

      (10)   Cooperage works;

      (11)   Dextrine, starch or glucose manufacturing;

      (12)   Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacturing;

      (13)   Enameling, lacquering or jappaning, varnishing;

      (14)   Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacturing;

      (15)   Felt manufacturing;

      (16)   Flour or grain mill;

      (17)   Forge or foundry works;

      (18)   Grain drying or poultry feed manufacturing, from refuse, mash or grain;

      (19)   Hair or hair products manufacturing;

      (20)   Lime or lime products manufacturing;

      (21)   Linoleum, oil cloth or oiled goods manufacturing;

      (22)   Match manufacturing;

      (23)   Meat packing;

      (24)   Paper and pulp manufacturing;

      (25)   Perfume manufacturing;

      (26)   Pickle, sauerkraut or sausage manufacturing;

      (27)   Plaster manufacturing;

      (28)   Poultry slaughterhouse, including packing and storage for wholesale;

      (29)   Printing ink manufacturing;

      (30)   Radium extraction;

      (31)   Sandblasting or cutting;

      (32)   Sawmill, the manufacture of excelsior, wood fiber or sawdust products;

      (33)   Sewage disposal plant;

      (34)   Shoddy manufacturing;

      (35)   Shoe blacking or polish or stove polish manufacturing;

      (36)   Steam power plant, except where accessory to a permitted principal use;

      (37)   Stone and monument works; and

      (38)   Slag piles.

   (b)   Any other use which, in the judgment of the Board of Appeals, is of a similar character in respect to the possible emission of dangerous or offensive elements as the uses listed above.

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

   All parts of the premises upon which the uses described in this section may be established and continued in a G heavy manufacturing district, shall be not less than 600 feet from any residence, D-1, D-2 and D-3 district, and not less than 200 feet from any D-4, D-5 and D-6 district.

   (a)   Manufacturing of:

      (1)   Asphalt, cement, charcoal and fuel briquettes;

      (2)   Aniline dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black and bone black, creosote, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrates of an explosive nature, potash, plastic materials and synthetic resins, pyroxylin, rayon yarn, and hydrochloric, nitric, phosphoric, picric and sulphuric acids, rocket fuels;

      (3)   Coal, coke and tar products, including gas manufacturing; explosives, fertilizers, gelatin, animal glue and size;

      (4)   Turpentine; and

      (5)   Rubber; soaps including fat rendering.

   (b)   Processing involving nitrating of cotton or other materials; magnesium foundry; reduction, refining, smelting and alloying of metal or metal ores; refining petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, lubricating oil; distillation of wood or bones; storage, curing or tanning of raw, green or salted hides or skins; nuclear reactors.

   (c)   Stockyards; slaughter houses.

   (d)   Storage of explosives or fireworks, except where incidental and accessory to a use which is not subject to a distance requirement.

   (e)   Storage of oil, gasoline and other inflammable liquids above ground.

   (f)   Any other use which, in the judgment of the Board of Appeals, is of a similar character with respect to the possible emission of dangerous or offensive elements as the uses listed above.

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

   Any use, building or structure customarily incidental to a principal use permitted outright in a G heavy 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 a G heavy manufacturing district shall be a conditional accessory use.

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

   The following uses are prohibited in a G heavy manufacturing district.

   (a)   Dwellings. Dwellings and residences of any kind, including motels and trailer parks, also schools, hospitals, clinics and other institutions for human care, except where they are incidental to a permitted principal use; provided, that any of the aforesaid uses legally existing in the G district on April 26, 1968, or at the time of the adoption of any amendment to this chapter, 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 refreshment or tobacco stands where incidental and accessory to a principal use;

      (2)   Animal hospitals;

      (3)   Storage and equipment yards;

      (4)   Automobile service stations and repair garage; and

      (5)   Union halls.

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

   The required conditions in a G heavy manufacturing district shall be the same as for an F district.

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