The intent of the General Industrial District (GID) is to permit general industrial uses to be located in desirable areas of the City, which uses are primarily of an intensive manufacturing, assembling, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, treatment, and fabricating character, including large-scale or specialized industrial operations requiring good access by roads and/or railroads, and needing special sites, or public and utility services. Reasonable regulations apply to users in this District so as to permit the location of industries which will not cause adverse effects on residential and commercial areas in the City.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

In a General Industrial District (GID), no use shall be permitted, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code, except the following:

   (a)   All principal permitted uses in the Light Industrial District (LID) as set forth in Section 1284.02, Principal Permitted Uses, subject to the terms and conditions therein.

   (b)   All uses permitted after special approval in the Light Industrial District (LID) as set forth in Section 1284.03, Uses Permitted After Special Approval, subject to the terms and conditions therein.

   (c)   Assembly and/or manufacture of motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies or automotive engines; cigars and cigarettes; electrical fixtures; batteries and other electrical apparatus and hardware; transmission and gear manufacturing; universal joints; and propeller shaft manufacturing.

   (d)   Business machine manufacturing.

   (e)   Cold storage plants.

   (f)   Commercial ice manufacturing.

   (g)   Docks, wharves or boathouses.

   (h)   Electroplating.

   (i)   Heat treating.

   (j)   Metal stamping, pressing and buffing plants.

   (k)   Millwork lumber and power saw and planing mills.

   (l)   Microbreweries.

   (m)   Nut, bolt or screw manufacturing.

   (n)   Pharmaceutical products manufacturing.

   (o)   Plastering and polishing shops, painting and sheet metal shops, tire vulcanizing and recapping shops, undercoating and rustproofing shops, welding shops, automotive repair shops, grinding shops, machine rebuilding establishments and spray painting establishments.

   (p)   Railroad freight stations or sidings.

   (q)   Steel fabrication.

   (r)   Wineries.

   (s)   Wireless communication facilities, including radio and television towers.

   (t)   Any other uses similar to the principal permitted uses set forth in this section.

   (u)   Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses set forth in this section.

   (v)   Off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with Chapter 1290, Off-Street Parking and Loading.

   (w)   Adult bookstores, adult motion picture theaters, adult cabarets (Group A and Group D), adult personal service businesses, massage parlors and nude modeling studios, provided that the same shall not be located within five-hundred (500) feet of a Residential District. This prohibition shall be waived if the person applying for the waiver files with the Planning Commission a petition which indicates approval of the proposed use by at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the persons owning, residing or doing business within a radius of five-hundred (500) feet of the location of the proposed use. Petitioners shall attempt to contact all eligible locations within this radius and must maintain a list of all addresses at which no contact was made.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

   In a General Industrial District (GID), the following uses may be permitted subject to the applicable site design standards of Section 1296.02, Site Design Standards for Uses Permitted After Special Approval, and subject, further, to the approval of Council after recommendation from the Planning Commission in accordance with the processing procedures in Section 1262.08, Powers of Council Re Special Approval:

   (a)   Breweries, distilleries, canning factories and chemical plants.

   (b)   Central station lights or power plants.

   (c)   Junkyards and scrapyards.

   (d)   Kennels.

   (e)   Mining, excavating or other removal of sand, earth, minerals or other materials naturally found in the earth.

   (f)   Open storage yards of building and construction contractors, equipment and supplies and lumberyards.

   (g)   Outdoor theaters.

   (Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

   (h)   Marihuana establishments:

      (1)   Marihuana Retailer establishments;

      (2)   Medical Marihuana Provisioning Centers;

      (3)   Marihuana Secured Transporter establishments;

      (4)   Marihuana Grower facilities;

      (5)   Marihuana Primary Caregiver facilities;

      (6)   Marihuana Processing establishments; and

      (7)   Marihuana Safety Compliance facilities.

   (i)   Pawn shops

(Res. 2020-320A. Passed 10-19-20, effective 11-4-20.)

For all uses in a General Industrial District (GID), a site plan shall be submitted for review and approval in accordance with Section 1296.01, Site Plan Review. Where a new or expanded use occurs in a General Industrial District (GID), after the effective date of this Zoning Code, which new or expanded use abuts directly upon a residentially zoned district, protective screening shall be provided in accordance with Section 1294.28, Screening.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

For a General Industrial District (GID), area, height, bulk and placement requirements and performance standards, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Sections 1294.31, Performance Standards, and 1294.32, Schedule of Area Regulations.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)

Required front yard and side yard setbacks adjacent to street frontage shall not be used for the external storage of materials.

(Res. 98-340A. Passed 9-21-98.)