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Georgetown Township
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

I - INDUSTRIAL

Sec 17.1 PURPOSE

This District permits most primary industrial uses. By providing a separate area for such uses, these essential facilities are kept from encroaching in areas or Districts where they would be incompatible.

Sec 17.2 PERMITTED USES

Land and/or buildings in this District may be used for the following purposes by right:

  1. Compounding, processing, packaging, treating and assembling from previously prepared materials in the production of:
    1. Food products including meat, dairy, fruit, vegetable, seafood, grain, bakery, confectionery, beverage and kindred foods.
    2. Textile mill products including woven fabric, knit goods, dyeing, and finishing, floor coverings, yarn and thread and other textile goods.
    3. Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics, leather goods, fur, canvas, and similar materials.
    4. Lumber and wood products including millwork, prefabricated structural wood products and containers, not including logging camps or outdoor storage.
    5. Furniture and fixtures.
    6. Paperboard containers, building paper, building board, and bookbinding.
    7. Printing and publishing.
    8. Chemical products such as plastics, perfumes, synthetic fibers.
    9. Engineering, measuring, optic, medical, lenses, photographics, and similar instruments.
    10. Jewelry, silverware, toys, athletic, office and tobacco goods, musical instruments, signs and displays, lampshades, and similar products.
  2. Wholesale establishments including automotive equipment, drugs, chemicals, dry goods, apparel, food, farm products, electrical goods, hardware, machinery, equipment, metals, paper products, and furnishings, and lumber and building products, not including outdoor storage.
  3. Warehouses, cartage businesses.
  4. Laboratories including experimental, film and testing.
  5. Trade or industrial schools and veterinary/animal hospitals or clinics or kennels (kennels subject to the standards in Chapter 20). (revised 10-25-2021)
  6. Motor freight terminals and distribution centers including garaging and maintenance of equipment. Freight forwarding, packing, and crating services.
  7. Central dry-cleaning plant.
  8. Municipal buildings, public service buildings.
  9. Electricity regulating substation, and pressure control station for gas, water and sewage.
  10. Office buildings for any of the following: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, clerical or stenographic, and drafting.
  11. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental of the above permitted uses as defined in Chapter II.
  12. Private non-commercial recreation.
  13. Vehicle repair establishments.
  14. Restaurants or other eating or drinking establishments which provide food and drink on the premises, including drive-through establishments. (revised 6/25/18)
  15. Contractor’s yards, building materials storage
  16. Tool and die, metal working and stone, clay, glass, concrete, brick, pottery, abrasives, tile and related products.
  17. Retail sales fronting on a major street with no outdoor sales or display.
  18. Contractor/showroom (where, in general, the contractor installs the product)
  19. Health and physical fitness salons, indoor sports, gymnastics and dance studios.
  20. Mini-storage garages.
  21. Commercial enterprises producing merchandise on the premises to be sold at retail and/or wholesale

(section revised 3/28/16)

Sec 17.3 USES REQUIRING SPECIAL LAND USE APPROVAL

The following uses may be permitted by obtaining Special Land Use Approval when all applicable standards as cited in Chapter XX are met.

  1. Waste treatment facilities.
  2. Water supply and treatment facilities.
  3. Waste disposal facilities, including incinerators and sanitary landfills.
  4. Airports and Landing fields.
  5. Commercial soil removal.
  6. Heating and electric power generating plants.
  7. Junk yards and salvage yards.
  8. Commercial radio and television and wireless communication towers. (Revised November 1997).
  9. Community Fair. (revised 4/24/17)
  10. Restaurants having a distillery, brewery or winery on the same site. (revised 6/25/18)

(section revised 3/28/16)

Sec 17.4 INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

All uses in the I District shall conform to the standards as specified in Chapter XXIII, where applicable.

Sec 17.5 DISTRICT REGULATIONS

As required in Chapter XXIV.

Sec 17.6 SIGNS

As provided in Chapter XXV.

Sec 17.7 OFF-STREET PARKING

Requirements for an allowed use shall be determined from the "Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements" in Chapter XXVI, Section 26.8.

Sec 17.8 OFF-STREET LOADING

As required in Chapter XXVI, Section 26.10.