No building, structure, or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, structurally altered, enlarged, or maintained except for one or more of the uses herein cited and subject to the conditions stated herein:

Agricultural operations on tracts of ten acres or greater, provided no sales are made on the premises, but not including commercial animal or poultry farms or kennels.

Federal, state, county, city or public utilities owned or operated buildings and uses.

Manufacturing, processing, fabrication or assembly of the following major groups as identified by the Standard Industrial Classification Manual (1987). The SIC major group number appears in parentheses at the end of each entry.

Food and kindred products intended for human consumption (20)

Textile mill products (22)

Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics (23)

Lumber and wood products (24)

Furniture and fixtures (25)

Printing and publishing (27)

Chemicals and chemical products (28)

Rubber and plastic products (30)

Leather and leather products (31)

Stone, clay, glass and concrete products operating without a mine or quarry (32)

Fabricated metal products (34)

Industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment (35)

Electronic and other electrical equipment and components (36)

Transportation equipment (37)

Measuring, analyzing and controlling instruments; photograph, medical and optical goods; watches and clocks (38)

Miscellaneous manufacturing industries (39)

Offices, laboratories, and showrooms when operated as accessory uses to any permitted use.

Signs shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of article 72—Sign control regulations.

Warehousing, interior storage, and distribution in conjunction with manufacturing and assembly uses.

Exterior storage in conjunction with the above-mentioned uses.

Accessory structures and uses to those permitted herein.

Permitted uses as special exceptions as defined and regulated by subsection 92.5.3 hereof.

(Ord. No. 09-1053, § 1, 12-17-2009; Ord. No. 21-46, § 1(Exh. A, § B.2.), 2-25-2021)

45.2.1. Minimum lot area shall not be less than ten acres.

45.2.2. No portion of any building or structure shall project through an imaginary height plane leaning inward from any yard at a slope of 0.4 foot of height for each foot of horizontal distance measured perpendicularly to the property boundary.

45.3.1. Each lot shall have at least 200 feet of frontage on a public street.

45.3.2. Access to building sites shall be via collector or arterial streets. No access roads serving plants shall be permitted which may place heavy traffic on residential streets which are not classified as major collector or arterial streets.

45.4.1. Yards facing an existing or proposed street other than a controlled access highway shall be considered front yards.

45.4.2. Required yard setbacks shall be determined by the type of permitted heavy manufacturing use and by the use immediately adjacent to the heavy manufacturing tract according to the following table:

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*Adjacent use shall be determined by its zoning district designation unless the actual use clearly falls within another category (e.g., a residential subdivision in a light industry zone would be treated as residential.)

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45.4.3. There shall be required a minimum setback of 50 feet from all property lines unless otherwise specified in this article.

45.4.4. No loading areas, exterior storage areas, or accessory uses and buildings shall be located in any required yard; provided, however, a gate or security station may be placed in such yards.

45.4.5. Railroad setback. Where a tract of land abuts a railroad right-of-way, the rear or side yard setback requirements for principal or accessory structures may be reduced to 50 feet from the railroad right-of-way.

45.4.6. Easements. There shall be provided an easement of not less than 25 feet along each side and rear lot line for utilities, drainage, and railroad purposes.

All permitted operations shall comply with applicable federal, state and local regulations concerning air pollution, odor, vibration, noise, fire and explosive hazards, glare, radiation, radioactive materials, electromagnetic interference, water pollution, and waste disposal.

Except as provided for herein all off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided for as set forth in article 70 hereof.

45.6.1. Parking areas provided for executives and visitors shall be paved and properly drained.

45.6.2. Parking areas in required rear and side yards are not permitted within 50 feet of any rear or side property line.

45.6.3. Driveways and vehicular access ways in required rear and side yards, except as necessary to cross a required rear or side yard, are not permitted within 50 feet of any rear or side property line.

Required bicycle parking spaces and facilities shall be provided as set forth in article 76 hereof.

(Ord. No. 99-1020, § 7, 1-13-2000; Ord. No. 09-430, § 17, 7-9-2009; Ord. No. 10-507, § 2, 8-26-2010)

Every site on which a building shall be placed shall be landscaped in the following manner. All landscaping must be installed in accordance with the provisions of section 73.19, installation of landscaping.

45.7.1. Visitors' parking lots shall be screened from view of all public streets and adjacent residential and recreational uses by a perimeter landscaping strip at least five feet in width planted with an average of one tree and six shrubs per 50 linear feet or fraction thereof of perimeter. Where a berm at least three feet in height is used, the shrubs are optional but the trees will still be required. Such berms shall be planted with a vegetative ground cover.

45.7.2. All yards required under this article shall be landscaped and maintained. A minimum of one tree per 40 linear feet of distance for each boundary line adjacent to a nonindustrial use (i.e., other than light or heavy industry or heavy manufacturing or railroad right-of-way) or street right-of-way shall be planted in the required yards. Existing vegetation may substitute for part or all of this requirement if it forms a broken screen composed of intermittent visual obstructions from the ground to a height of at least 20 feet and provides screening equivalent to having one tree every 40 feet. The majority of the trees used should be of nondeciduous species in order to ensure a visual screen in all seasons and should be of a variety that maintains its foliage to the ground.

45.8.1. Any landowner of property lying in a heavy manufacturing district desiring to dedicate any street, road, or right-of-way to the public must submit to the planning commission a plan of the proposed street, road, or right-of-way for approval.

45.8.2. Anyone desiring to secure a building permit for the use of land lying in a heavy manufacturing district must submit to the manager of planning (city planning division) a generalized plot plan of the tract to be developed for approval. Such generalized plot plan shall have shown thereon the following information:

(1)

Location map showing the boundaries of the tract to be developed.

(2)

The location of all buildings and structures proposed to be constructed.

(3)

The general location of parking areas, loading docks, exterior storage areas, proposed railroad spurs, and public and/or private accessways.

(4)

Site grading and storm drainage plan.

(5)

Proposed utilities services.

(6)

All required screening and landscaping.

(7)

Required and adequate easements.

The manager of planning (city planning division) shall review and approve by signature the proposed plot plan upon finding that the same complies with these regulations.

If the proposed plot plan is not approved, the manager of planning (city planning division) shall state in writing on the proposed plot plan the cause for such disapproval.