The I-2 Heavy Industrial Districts are designed primarily for manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication activities including large scale or specialized industrial operations requiring reasonable access to transportation networks and whose external effects may be felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 District is so structured as to permit the manufacturing, processing and compounding of semifinished or finished products from raw material as well as from previously prepared material.

(Code 2002, § 220-49)

The following regulations shall apply to all I-2 Districts and no building structure, or premises, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used, except for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

All uses permitted in a I-1 District.

(2)

Heating and electric power generating plants.

(3)

The bottling or packaging of cleaning compounds and polishes.

(4)

The manufacture of furniture and upholstery, paper, hardware, cutlery, leather goods, luggage, wearing apparel, automotive accessories, not including tires.

(5)

Light and general automobile repair.

(6)

Storage and repair of large trucks and related equipment.

(7)

Assembly plants for automobiles or other machinery.

(8)

Brewing or distillation of malt beverages or liquors.

(9)

Canning factories.

(10)

Metal stamping and pressing plants.

(11)

Lumber or planing mills.

(12)

Manufacture of cement, lime, gypsum or Plaster of Paris, corrosive acid, or alkali.

(13)

Grain and seed elevators and sales; cold storage for cooperative and/or wholesale agricultural products.

(14)

Freestanding nonaccessory signs subject to article XXI of this chapter.

(15)

Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.

(Code 2002, § 220-50)

The following uses may be permitted in I-2 Districts after a public hearing and review and approval by the planning commission and under such conditions as the planning commission imposes after finding that the use is not injurious to the district and its environs; is not contrary to the spirit and purpose of this chapter; is not incompatible with already existing districts uses in the area; would not interfere with orderly development of the area; and would not be detrimental to the safety or convenience of vehicular or pedestrian traffic:

(1)

Plants which produce, refine, or store petroleum, chemicals, plastics, or flammable liquids or gasses.

(2)

Incineration of garbage or refuse.

(3)

The manufacture of tires.

(4)

Junkyards and places so-called for the dismantling, wrecking, and disposing of scrap or discarded automotive vehicles may be permitted on a continuous parcel of not less than ten acres.

(5)

Any other use which shall be determined by the City Council after recommendation from the planning commission, to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses in this this section. The planning commission may impose any required setback and/or performance standards so as to ensure public health, safety, and general welfare.

(Code 2002, § 220-51)

(a)

All outdoor storage shall be located in the rear yard or in an interior side yard and shall be screened from view of adjacent residential areas and public thoroughfares in accordance with section 46-8, Walls and berms.

(b)

No outdoor storage of any kind shall be permitted in any designated off-street parking or loading, unloading area.

(c)

A zoning lot located within 300 feet of a residential district shall not be occupied by any such use permitted under section 46-397 unless separated from the residential district by a major or collector thoroughfare. In an instance where the residential district is used for other than residential purposes, the planning commission may waive or modify the distance requirement.

(d)

All uses permitted in the I-2 District must conform to section 46-16.

(e)

Article XVI of this chapter, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, and providing minimum yard setback requirements shall be complied with.

(Code 2002, § 220-52)