The general purpose and intent of this district is to identify areas that are appropriate for a wide range of commercial and industrial uses.

The district recognizes that the development pattern in the City includes a number of areas adjacent to residential areas that have included such a mix of uses.

The intent of the district is to permit such uses to continue and to expand as long as they do not create problems to such an extent as to significantly diminish the quality of life of the adjoining residential neighborhoods or affect the efficient operation of other commercial and industrial uses in the district.

While there are some residential uses in the district, further expansion of those uses through construction of new residential structures should be discouraged in order to provide space for the commercial/industrial uses and to avoid conflicts in land use.

In promoting the general purpose of this district, the specific intent of the district includes:

Light manufacturing and assembly.

Research facilities.

Lumber yard/building supplies.

Retail businesses.

Convenience stores with or without gas pumps.

Public and semi-public uses, including uses associated with the provision of public utilities.

Private and public parking areas, and private and public parking structures.

Restaurants, take out restaurants and drive-through restaurants.

Health/fitness clubs and commercial recreation.

Taverns.

Publishing and printing businesses.

Wholesale storage and distribution.

Office equipment sales.

Automobile related businesses, including new and used automobile sales and leasing and automobile service stations.

Warehousing.

Transportation facilities.

Recycling facilities.

Adult-use recreational retail businesses.

Single-family, two-family and multifamily housing.

Accessory structures related to the above uses.

Short-term rentals: hosted and unhosted short-term rentals.

Front yard. The minimum front yard setback shall be 50 feet.

Side yard.

Rear yard. The minimum rear yard setback shall be a distance equal to the height of the principal structure.

Buffer zone. Along the lot line of a Light Industrial District which adjoins any residential district there shall be provided a fifteen-foot buffer strip of landscaping or opaque screening.

The purpose of this district is to allow the creation of a "shovel-ready" industrial park such that allowed uses that meet the criteria of this chapter may proceed to construction upon obtaining a building permit without the need for site plan review. Allowed uses that do not meet these criteria may follow the procedures for site plan review contained in Article VII, § 220-27.

It is further the intent of this district that the regulations and restrictions be applied to the Northway Business Park formerly known as "Veterans Field."

Any light manufacturing, assembly, production, office, or other industrial or research use that complies with the standards of this chapter and the model site plan and the submission site plan, which are hereby made a part of this chapter. The "Model Site Plan," incorporated herein is titled "Veterans Field Light Industrial Park," dated April 26, 2000, and consists of the following drawings:

The subdivision site plan, titled "Veterans Field Light Industrial Park," is dated April 26, 2000, and consists of the following drawings:

Maximum building height: 50 feet.

Maximum building coverage: 30%.

Minimum green space requirement: 30%.

Minimum exterior setback: 50 feet.

Minimum interior setback: 20 feet.

Minimum interior setback: 20 feet.

A twenty-foot landscaped buffer shall be maintained along the frontages of Luzerne Road, Veterans Road and Sherman Avenue.

Parking shall not exceed one space per 500 gross square feet of development.

At least 5% of parking lot interiors shall be devoted to green space.

Parking lot lighting shall be provided by shoe-box style fixtures mounted on poles not exceeding 20 feet in height. Interior parking lot lighting shall not exceed 7.5 foot-candles. Lighting shall not spill off the lot boundary.

Wall mounted lights shall be aimed at the ground.

All uses shall be required to provide interconnection across the front and rear of each lot with the lot adjacent. Such connection shall result in an interior circulation pattern substantially as shown in the Model Site Plan and Overall Concept Plan. (described in Subsection B).

Uses shall not generate trips in excess of 1.01 trips/1,000 gross square feet during the hours of 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., and 1.08 trips/1,000 gross square feet during the hours of 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Noise shall not exceed 70 dBa at the exterior property line during the daytime, and 63 dBa at night.

Uses shall not generate particulate matter exceeding an opacity of two on the Ringleman Scale.

Uses shall not generate noxious odors.

Uses shall not produce noticeable vibration at the exterior property line.

Uses shall not produce radiation measurable at the exterior property line.

No physical disturbance to the wetlands on any property shall be allowed unless in compliance with current ACOE permit standards.

Stormwater shall be conveyed by natural drainage to the interior wetlands area and to drywalls and catchbasin in the surrounding roadways, which in turn must be connected to existing drainage systems on Luzerne Road and/or Sherman Avenue.

Dust-control measures shall be implemented during construction. Water shall be sprayed on Open, unvegetated areas to suppress dust during construction. No area may remain open or unvegetated for more than 30 days.

All uses shall be responsible for providing easements to allow the connection of roadways and utilities across adjoining lots.

Uses on Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Northway Business Park shall be responsible for providing easements to allow the sharing of driveway access and the free connection of traffic from the driveways to each lot.

All uses shall be required to construct stormwater drainage systems in substantial compliance with the approved subdivision plans.

All uses shall have equal responsibility for any maintenance activities related to stormwater management on the wetlands located on the interior of the property.

All uses shall be responsible for the maintenance of that portion of the stormwater management system located on their property.

The general purpose of this district is to identify areas that are suitable for manufacturing and related uses and encourage those uses in those areas.

In creating this district, it is the intent to protect the existing industrial base of the City and also to identify areas where industrial development can be encouraged while minimizing any adverse effects on other uses, particularly the residential neighborhoods of the City.

Therefore, the areas designated either currently have an industrial character or are on major transportation routes and can be reasonably screened or separated from major residential areas.

Because land with these characteristics is limited within the City and because residential uses adjacent to industrial uses can create significant conflicts, new residential uses are prohibited in the district.

It is further the intent of the district to accommodate adult entertainment uses and to reasonably restrict and disperse such uses since the City finds that such uses result in decreased property values, increased loss of business for nonadult businesses and deterioration of residential neighborhoods.

In promoting the general purpose of this district, the specific intent of the district includes:

General manufacturing.

Light and heavy manufacturing and assembly.

Research facilities.

Public and semi-public uses, including uses associated with the provision of public utilities.

Private and public parking areas, and private and public parking structures.

Restaurant, take out restaurants and drive-through restaurants.

Health/fitness clubs and commercial recreation.

Taverns.

Publishing and printing businesses.

Wholesale storage and distribution.

Office equipment sales.

Automobile-related businesses, including new and used automobile sales and leasing and automobile service stations.

Warehousing.

Mining and excavating.

Sawmills and pulp yards.

Transportation facilities.

Recycling centers.

Paper manufacturing.

Adult entertainment business uses, provided that such businesses/uses shall not be located within 500 feet of any institutions of religious worship, schools or residential zoning district, or be considered obscene as described in Chapter 40, Part Three, Title M, and Article 235 of New York Penal Law.

Adult-use recreational retail businesses.

Accessory structures related to the above uses.

Front yard. The minimum front yard setback shall be 50 feet.

Side yard.

Rear yard. The minimum rear yard setback shall be a distance equal to the height of the principal structure.

Buffer zone. Along the lot line of a Heavy Industrial District which adjoins any residential district there shall be provided a fifteen-foot buffer strip of landscaping or opaque screening.