(A)

Purpose statement. The I Limited Industrial District is intended to provide an environment suitable for industrial activities that do not create appreciable nuisance or hazards, or that require a pleasant, hazard-and-nuisance-free environment.

Because the I Limited Industrial District is intended as a major employment generating area and will create significant traffic and other impacts, lands within the I District shall be designated as "areas of critical concern" and shall be subject to the site plan review regulations specified by subsection 155.103(I) of this Chapter.

(B)

Permitted uses. The following uses shall be permitted in the I District:

(1)

Contractors, architects, and engineers offices and shops.

(2)

Exterminating services.

(3)

Laboratories: medical, dental, and support.

(4)

Laboratories: research and testing.

(5)

Laundry and dry cleaning plants and operations, primarily serving more than one establishment in other districts.

(6)

Offices, including business, professional, non-profit, and governmental.

(7)

Parking lots, open, as the principal use of the property.

(8)

Printing, publishing, and lithography establishments, including automated envelope merging process.

(9)

Public utility and governmental service uses.

(10)

Radio and television stations and towers.

(11)

Sheet metal stamping and fabrication.

(12)

Sign contractors.

(13)

Tool and die.

(14)

Warehouse, storage centers, and mini-warehouses.

(15)

Manufacturing, processing, repairing, servicing, storage, or industrial uses as determined by the Director of Economic Development and Planning to be of the same general character as the uses permitted in subsection 155.420(B) above, and not listed as a conditional use in subsection 155.420(C) of this article, and further provided that sufficient information is provided to the Director of Economic Development and Planning, prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy, in order to determine that the use shall be found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, toxic, or noxious matter or glare or heat.

(16)

Cannabis dispensing facility operated in strict compliance with State law applicable thereto.

(17)

Collection Boxes, as an accessory use on the property.

(18)

Accessory uses and buildings, incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the permitted use, which are constructed and operated in conformance with Section 155.210 of this Chapter.

(C)

Conditional uses. Subject to the provisions of subsection 155.103(F) in this Chapter, the following conditional uses may be allowed:

(1)

Adult uses (including but not limited to adult book stores, adult cabarets, adult theaters, and adult video stores) subject to the adult use:

(a)

Not being located within 500 feet of a zoning district which permits (or allows as a conditional use) residential development, educational or religious institutions, parks, or playgrounds;

(b)

Not being located within 1,000 feet of another adult use (distances to be measured from property lines);

(c)

Being conducted in a manner that prohibits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to any specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by display, decorations, sign, show window or other opening from any public way.

(2)

Animal hospitals, animal kennels, animal day care, and animal training.

(3)

Banks and financial institutions.

(4)

Building material and products sales and storage.

(5)

Cartage and express facilities.

(6)

Clubs and Lodges, private, non-profit, and fraternal.

(7)

Collection centers, recycling, provided that the following provisions are met:

(a)

The recycling collection center is located in an area where there is an excess of parking beyond that required in Section 155.600 et seq.

(b)

Placement of any containers shall be on a hard surface parking area.

(c)

The recycling collection center must be staffed full-time to monitor the use, and all collection is to be removed on a daily basis. Any area involved must be swept and cleaned at the end of the business day.

(d)

Recycling collection centers shall not operate without the consent of the property owner stating approved days and hours of operation as part of the application for conditional use approval.

(8)

Compost collection facility.

(9)

Concrete and cast stone fabrication and molding.

(10)

Contractors, architects, and engineers equipment and material storage yards.

(11)

Cosmetics production.

(12)

Distribution center.

(13)

Food and dairy manufacture, packaging, and processing.

(14)

Fuel center (or any expansion of a principal, secondary or ancillary use on the same lot as a fuel center).

(15)

Glass products production.

(16)

Heliports, private or commercial.

(17)

Learning centers (no outdoor component).

(18)

Metal plating, forging, or casting.

(19)

Mortuarial services.

(20)

Motor vehicle repair.

(21)

Motor vehicle Sales.

(22)

Motor vehicle services.

(23)

Off-site parking, conforming to subsection 155.602(A)(3)(b) of this Chapter.

(24)

Outpatient medical and dental offices and clinics.

(25)

Paper products manufacture.

(26)

Parks and playgrounds.

(27)

Planned developments in conformance with Section 155.500 of this Chapter.

(28)

Plastic extruding.

(29)

Recreation buildings or community centers.

(30)

Religious institutions.

(31)

Restaurants, including catering services.

(32)

Schools: public and/or private elementary, middle and high.

(33)

Shooting gallery and range, indoor (with ancillary retail sales of associated product).

(34)

Soap manufacture.

(35)

Stadiums, auditoriums, and arenas—Open or enclosed.

(36)

Outside storage of motor vehicles.

(37)

Trade school.

(38)

Truck terminal.

(39)

Other manufacturing, processing, storage, or industrial uses as determined by the Director of Economic Development and Planning to be of the same general character as the uses permitted in subsection 155.420(C), above, and found not to be obnoxious, unhealthful, or offensive by reason of the potential emission or transmission of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, toxic or noxious matter or glare or heat.

(40)

Craft alcohol production facility.

(41)

Accessory uses and buildings incidental to and on the same zoning lot as the conditional use, which are constructed and operated in conformance with Section 155.210 of this Chapter.

(D)

Minimum lot area. All uses located within this district shall have a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet.

(E)

Minimum lot width. All uses located in this district shall have a minimum lot width of 80 feet.

(F)

Minimum building setbacks. All principal buildings and structures shall have minimum yards in conformance with the following:

(1)

Front yards—25 feet.

(2)

Corner side yards—25 feet.

(3)

Interior side yards—15 feet.

(4)

Rear yards—15 feet, except where the rear lot line coincides with a railroad right-of-way the rear yard may be reduced to one foot.

(G)

Maximum building height. The height of any building in this district which is within 100 feet of a residentially-zoned property or a minor or major arterial street shall not exceed three stories or 40 feet, whichever is less, except that such buildings may be allowed to be four stories or 45 feet, whichever is less, as a conditional use. The height of any building in this district which is not within 100 feet of a residentially-zoned property or a minor or major arterial street shall not exceed four stories or 45 feet, whichever is less.

(H)

Maximum floor area ratio. The floor area ratio (FAR) of uses within the I District shall not exceed 1.0 FAR.

(I)

Minimum open space. The minimum open space required for each use shall not be less than ten percent of the lot area.

(J)

Transitional building setbacks. Wherever a rear yard or interior side yard lot in the I District abuts a lot in the CR or a residence district, all principal and accessory buildings shall be set back from the abutting lot line a distance of 45 feet.

(K)

Transitional landscape yard. Wherever a rear yard or interior side yard lot in the I District abuts a lot in the CR or residence district, a transitional landscape yard 30 feet in width shall be provided along the abutting lot line and improved in accordance with the provisions of Section 155.707 of this Chapter.

(L)

Restrictions on industrial uses. The operation and design of industrial uses shall conform to the following restrictions:

(1)

All businesses, servicing, or processing—Except for off-street loading—Shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings, unless otherwise indicated hereinafter.

(2)

All storage, except for motor vehicles in operable condition, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened by a solid wall or fence (including solid entrance and exit gates) not less than six feet nor more than eight feet in height. No stored materials shall be visible above the fence.

(M)

Signs. Signs shall be allowed in the I District in accordance with the regulations established in the Village of Lombard Sign Ordinance.

(N)

Off-street parking and loading. Off-street parking and loading facilities, accessory to uses allowed in the I Districts, shall be provided in accordance with the regulations established in Section 155.600 of this Chapter.

(O)

Landscaping. All uses in the I District shall conform to the provisions in Section 155.700 of Chapter.

(P)

Rooftop mechanicals. All rooftop mechanical equipment shall be screened in accordance with the regulations established in Section 155.221 of this Chapter.

(Ord. 6643, passed 9/1/11; Ord. No. 6909, § 1, passed 1-16-14; Ord. No. 7629, § 1, passed 2-21-19; Ord. No. 7642, § 6, passed 4-4-19; Ord. No. 7728, § 10, passed 10-3-19; Ord. No. 7925, §§ 7, 8, passed 3-4-21; Ord. No. 8099, § 1(Exh. A), passed 11-3-22; Ord. No. 8346, § 3, passed 3-20-25; Ord. No. 8347, § 1, passed 3-20-25)

No use established in a Limited Industrial District after the effective date of this ordinance shall be so operated as to exceed the performance standards established hereinafter. Any use already established on the effective date of this Chapter shall be permitted to be altered, enlarged, expanded, or modified, provided that the new sources of noise, vibration, smoke, and particulate matter, fire and explosive hazards, toxic matter, odorous matter, and glare shall conform to the performance standards established hereinafter for the district in which such use is located.

(A)

Noise limitations.

(1)

No industrial activity shall generate noise across any residential or business zoning district boundary line in excess of the levels adopted by the Illinois Pollution Control Board, Title 35, Subtitle H, Chapter 1, Part 900 of the Illinois Administrative Code, as amended.

(2)

The sound levels shall be measured with a sound-level meter and octave-band analyzer to meet criteria for the noise measurement provisions of OSHA, and shall conform to ANSI S1-4 (American National Standards Institute).

(B)

Vibration limitations.

(1)

Earthborne vibrations from any industrial operation, equipment, or process shall not constitute a nuisance nor exceed the limits set forth herein. Vibrations shall be expressed as displacement in inches and shall be measured with a three-component measuring system.

(2)

No industrial activity shall be responsible for the transmission of earthborne vibrations across any residence or business zoning district boundary line in excess of the displacement limits established through use of the following formula:

D =

where D = the maximum allowable displacement in inches, and

f = the vibration frequency in cycles per second.

(C)

Smoke and particulate matter.

(1)

General limitations.

(a)

In addition to the performance standards specified hereinafter, the emission of smoke or particulate matter in such manner or quantity as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and shall henceforth be unlawful.

(b)

Particulate matter emissions, in excess of the threshold limit values caused by the wind from open storage areas, yards, roads, etc. within lot lines shall be kept to a minimum by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling, wetting, and other means, or shall be eliminated.

(c)

For the purpose of determining the density or equivalent opacity of smoke, the Ringelmann chart as adopted and published by the United States Bureau of Mines in Circular No. 8333 shall be used.

(d)

No industrial operation shall cause or allow to be emitted into the open air from any process or control equipment or to pass any convenient measuring point in a breaching or stack, dust in the gases to exceed 0.85 pounds per thousand pounds of gases adjusted to 12 percent CO ² content for the products of combustion.

(e)

The emission, from all sources within any zoning lot, of particulate matter continuing more than ten percent by weight of particles having a particulate diameter larger than 44 microns is prohibited.

(2)

Permitted smoke emission. Within 1,000 feet of a residence or office or business zoning district boundary line the emission of smoke from any vent, stack, chimney, or combustion process shall not exceed a density or equivalent opacity no greater than Ringelmann No. 1. Smoke in excess of Ringelmann No. 1, but not exceeding Ringelmann No. 2, shall be permitted for not more than three minutes in any 60-minute period. Smoke not exceeding Ringelmann No. 3 shall be permitted for five minutes during any eight-hour period for purposes of fire-cleaning only. Smoke in excess of Ringelmann No. 3 is prohibited.

(D)

Fire and explosion hazard limitations. Fire and explosion hazards within the I Limited Industrial District shall comply with the limitations proscribed by the adopted International Fire Code, the adopted International Building Code, and all other applicable village codes.

(E)

Toxic matter limitations. In the Limited Industrial District, toxic materials which are released shall not exceed ten percent of the maximum permissible airborne concentration allowed an industrial worker when measured at any point beyond the lot line, either at ground level or habitable elevation, whichever is more restrictive. When maximum permissible airborne concentrations of toxic materials allowed an industrial worker are not contained in the most recent list of Threshold Limit Values published by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, the applicant shall satisfy the health officer that proposed levels will be safe to the general population.

(F)

Odorous matter limitations. The release of odorous matter from the Limited Industrial District across Residence or Business District boundary lines shall be so controlled that, at ground level or at habitable elevations, the concentration shall not exceed the odor threshold level. Further, the release of odorous matter across lot lines shall not become a nuisance or source of discomfort to neighboring uses.

(G)

Glare limitations. In the Limited Industrial District, any operation or activity producing glare shall be so conducted that direct and indirect illumination from the sources of light shall not cause illumination in excess of one-half of one footcandle when measured at any residence or business district boundary line. Flickering or intense sources of light shall be so controlled as not to cause a nuisance across any lot lines.

(Ord. 6437, passed 2/4/10; Ord. No. 8099, § 1(Exh. A), passed 11-3-22)