This District is composed of those areas of the village whose principal use is or ought to be light manufacturing and other limited industrial uses. These uses generate a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollutants, and other harmful or obnoxious matter. This District has been located within the village to permit the development of these industrial uses, to protect adjacent agricultural, residential, and commercial areas against the encroachment of incompatible uses, and to lessen congestion on public street and highways. To these ends, certain uses are excluded which would function more effectively in other districts and which would interfere with the operation of the uses permitted in this District.

(Prior Code, § 759.01)

   The following buildings and structures, and uses of parcels, lots, buildings, and structures, are permitted in this District:

   (A)   Research-oriented and light industrial park uses, banks;

   (B)   The manufacturing, compounding process, or treatment of the products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, food products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical toiletries, and frozen food lockers;

   (C)   Assembly of merchandise such as electrical appliances, electronic or precision instruments and articles of similar nature;

   (D)   Packaging of previously prepared materials, but not including the bailing of discards, old iron or other metal, wood, lumber, glass, paper, rags, cloth, or other similar materials;

   (E)   Printing, lithographic, blueprinting, and similar uses;

   (F)   Wholesale warehousing and material distribution centers, provided all products and materials are enclosed within a building;

   (G)   Light manufacturing industrial use which by nature of the materials, equipment, and process utilized are to a considerable extent clean, quiet, and free from any objectionable or dangerous nuisance or hazard including any of the following goods or materials: drugs, jewelry, musical instruments, sporting goods, glass products, small household appliances, electronic products, printed matter, baked and dairy products, advertising displays, tents and awnings, brushes and brooms, cameras and photographic equipment and supplies, wearing apparel, leather products and luggage but not including tanning products from the finished materials as plastic, bone, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, paper, glass, hair, horn, rubber, shell, or yarn;

   (H)   Research and testing facilities;

   (I)   An accessory use, building, or structure;

   (J)   A sign in accordance with the regulations specified in § 152.343;

   (K)   Essential service structures and buildings; and

   (L)   Storage facilities, provided all stored items/materials are enclosed within a structure.

(Prior Code, § 759.02) Penalty, see § 10.99

   The following buildings and structures, and use of parcels, lots, buildings, and structures, are permitted subject to obtaining a conditional use permit as provided in §§ 152.270 through 152.303:

   (A)   Restaurants and cafeteria facilities for employees;

   (B)   Bus, truck, taxi, and rail terminals;

   (C)   Open air display areas for the sale of manufactured products, such as or similar to garden furniture, earthware, hardware items and nursery stock, or the rental of manufactured products or equipment, small tools, pneumatic tired two- and four-wheeled utility trailers, such as household equipment, pneumatic transit cement mixers, wheelbarrows, rollers and similar products or equipment;

   (D)   Heliports;

   (E)   Gasoline service stations; and

   (F)   Temporary buildings or trailer offices.

(Prior Code, § 759.03) Penalty, see § 10.99

   The following regulations shall apply to an LI Light Industrial District:

   (A)   Lot area. No building or structure shall be established on any lot less than one acre in area, except where a lot is served with a central water supply system and a central sanitary sewerage system, in which case there shall be a provided a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet;

   (B)   Lot width. The minimum lot width for lots served with a public water supply system and a public sanitary sewerage system shall be 80 feet. Where a lot is not so served, the minimum lot width shall be 150 feet;

   (C)   Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage shall not exceed 25%;

   (D)   Yard requirements.

      (1)   Front yard. Not less than 85 feet;

      (2)   Side yard. Least width of either side yard shall not be less than 20 feet, except in the case of a corner lot or parcel, where the side yard on the road or street side shall not be less than 35 feet;

      (3)   Rear yard. Not less than 35 feet; and

      (4)   Application. The above requirements shall apply to every lot, building, or structure.

   (E)   Height. Except as is otherwise provided in this chapter, no building or structure should exceed a height of 45 feet;

   (F)   Off-street parking. As required in § 152.086; and

   (G)   Minimum floor area. The minimum floor area requirement per building is 1,000 square feet.

(Prior Code, § 759.04) Penalty, see § 10.99