The Industrial District is intended to provide spaces for manufacturing, industrial, and general wholesale and warehousing uses while simultaneously imposing minimum provisions to protect and foster environmental compatibility and desirability. Uses not consistent with the existing character of this district shall not be permitted.

In Industrial Districts, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

1.

Abattoirs (commercial slaughter house).

2.

Accessory uses and structures as defined herein.

3.

Advertising displays and signs—manufacture.

4.

Agricultural or farm implements, including tractors sale, storage, assembly or repair.

5.

Animal hospitals, clinics, and kennels.

6.

Appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios, phonographs and other such electrical component products—manufacture or assembly. Included is the manufacture of coils, condensers, transformers, and crystal holders.

7.

Asphalt mixing plants.

8.

Automobiles, trucks, buses, truck trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles, including transmission repair service assembly or repair. Also radiator repair and cleaning, and tire retreading, recapping and vulcanizing.

9.

Bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products—manufacture.

10.

Boats—manufacture.

11.

Bottling and canning of soft drinks, carbonated water.

12.

Brick—manufacture.

13.

Bulk petroleum storage.

14.

Carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing, and general fabrics—manufacture. Also, the printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.

15.

Chemicals and allied products—manufacture.

16.

Coal and coke storage.

17.

Cold storage facilities.

18.

Concrete cement, lime, gypsum, and plaster products—manufacture.

19.

Containers, packaging, boxes, containers, wood, paper, corrugated, plastic, etc.—manufacture. Also products or goods made of wood, fiber, straw or plastic.

20.

Cut stone and stone products—manufacture.

21.

Drugs, toiletries, perfumes, and pharmaceuticals—manufacture.

22.

Facilities and structures necessary for the rendering of public utility service, including booster or relay stations, transformer substations, poles, transmission lines and towers, and the like for normal electrical distribution or communication service. Pipelines, conduits, meters, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public electrical, gas, water and sewer service. Railroads and their facilities (except railroad yards).

23.

Feed and grain—storage.

24.

Fertilizer—storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building, but not the manufacture or processing.

25.

Fleece wear, knitting—manufacture.

26.

Food products, including fruit and vegetable processing, canning, cider, vinegar, and pickle production, packing or processing of seafoods, meat and poultry products, the distilling of beverages, or the slaughtering of animals.

27.

Furniture—manufacture and assembly.

28.

General contracting and storage yards or plants, for construction equipment, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

29.

Glass and glass products—manufacture.

30.

Ice—manufacture.

31.

Industrial and building supplies and materials (cement, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or reinforcing steel, pipe, and the like) storage and sales, but not their manufacture or steel fabricating or junk storage.

32.

Industrial cleaning and dyeing operations.

33.

Iron and steel foundries.

34.

Jewelry, silverware, and plated ware—manufacture.

35.

Laboratories and other research and development facilities, but not including any type of combustion engine testing.

36.

Leather goods, including tanning operations—manufacture.

37.

Machinery—manufacture.

38.

Medical, optical, or drafting equipment, toys, novelties, games, stamps (rubber and metal), musical instruments, and sporting and athletic goods—manufacture.

39.

Modular, prefabricated, and mobile homes—manufacture.

40.

Non-ferrous foundries and other primary metal industries.

41.

Nursery schools and day care centers that are sponsored or associated with industry in the vicinity.

42.

Paper, pulp, and allied products—manufacture.

43.

Pottery, figurines, or other such ceramic products—manufacturing, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

44.

Plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning supply houses, including accessory storage yards.

45.

Plumbing supplies—manufacture.

46.

Resident watchman and caretakers employed on the premises.

47.

Rubber products and rubber and synthetic treated fabrics—manufacture.

48.

Sawmills and planing mills.

48.5.

Small scale solar energy facilities.

49.

Structural iron and steel fabrication.

50.

Textiles—manufacture.

51.

Towels, terry cloth, weaving—manufacture.

52.

Truck terminals, freight.

53.

Warehouses—storage.

[54.

Reserved.]

55.

Waste collection and recycling centers.

56.

Wholesale houses and distributors.

(Ord. of 3-24-20)

The uses permitted in the Industrial District with a Special Use Permit as approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals are as follows:

1.

Airports.

2.

Crushed stone operations.

2.5.

Large scale solar energy facilities.

3.

Transient storage of hazardous wastes, where such facilities, structures and uses must be located more than five hundred (500) feet from any non-industrial zoned property, provided the hazardous wastes are contained in a manner approved by all appropriate regulatory agencies and that no waste may return to a transient storage site.

4.

Sand and gravel operations.

5.

Steam plants.

6.

Firearm sports and training facilities, including firing ranges, pistol ranges, sporting clay, trap and skeet shooting ranges, turkey shoots, archery ranges and other for profit or not for profit uses and activities involving discharge of firearms or shooting of missiles. However, nothing in this provision shall be constructed to affect any individual's right to hunt on his property or prohibit nonprofit hunting actives.

7.

Promotional, amusement, and entertainment facilities, sponsored by any licensed business or businesses or non-profit organizations and are located on the property owned or controlled by the sponsor. Such uses shall be properly safe-guarded from traffic and shall observe all setbacks required for structures. Temporary, promotional, recreational, or fundraising amusement activities and facilities of not more than three (3) days duration sponsored by civic, professional, fraternal, institutional or religious groups or organizations, and conducted for community, religious or benevolent purposes and located on property owned or controlled by the sponsor shall be exempted from this section. Examples of such amusement facilities and activities are musical entertainment, jamborees, educational displays, arts and crafts, auctions, legal games, dunking booths, concession and vending. Rides are permitted. Tent revivals or other similar outdoor religious services of not more than seven (7) days duration shall also be exempted from this section.

(Ord. of 7-27-92; § I; Ord. of 11-23-92; Ord. of 12-18-95, §§ 1(B), 2; Ord. of 3-24-20)

None, except for permitted uses utilizing an individual water or sewage disposal system; the required area for any such use shall be approved by the Health Official.

The front setback line shall be located thirty-five (35) feet from any street right-of-way which is fifty (50) feet or greater in width or sixty (60) feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width. This shall be known as the "setback line." No structure shall be constructed or placed closer to the front property line than the setback line.

(Ord. of 1-27-97)

A.

Side. The minimum side yard for all structures shall be fifty (50) feet if the adjoining parcel is not zoned to an industrial classification.

B.

Rear. The minimum rear yard for all structures shall be fifty (50) feet if the adjoining parcel is not zoned to an industrial classification.

The Zoning Administrator may require an appropriate type of screen planting at the side or near property lines for buffering when properties are adjoining or adjacent to residential or agricultural districts.

Structures may be erected up to seventy-five (75) feet in height from grade. This requirement shall not apply to chimneys, water towers, monuments, parapet walls, flues, flagpoles, television antennae, radio aerials, and similar structures and necessary mechanical appurtenances. Towers and structures may be erected to a height greater than seventy-five (75) feet if a special use permit is approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals.

(Ord. of 8-24-98)