The Industrial District of the municipality delineates areas where a satisfactory correlation of factors such as adequate transportation facilities, accessibility for employees, efficient land assembly, adequate topographical conditions, and adequate provisions of public utilities required by light industry may be achieved. It is intended that this particular district will generally provide for light industry of an assembly nature from finished goods, warehousing and wholesaling activities. Supportive services for light industry are generally of a non-retail or personal service character and should be encouraged to locate in this district. Open storage of equipment and supplies should be encouraged to locate in this district.

(Ord. 887, § 2.12, passed - -)

   The permitted uses shall be subject to the following:

   (A)   Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair, or storage of goods, materials, or products shall take place without creating disturbing influences to the use and occupancy of adjoining properties.

   (B)   All business, production, servicing, and processing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise specified. Storage of equipment and supplies in this district may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by a wall or fence, including gates, at least eight feet high. Off-street loading facilities and open, off-street parking facilities for the storage of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as may be required.

   (C)   Railroad siding frontage. No yards shall be required for those portions of lots which front on railroad sidings.

   (D)   Buffer areas. Landscape development shall be required along all streets, with the exception of approved entrances which border the proposed development, to be planted and maintained with trees and shrubbery to serve as a screen for the parking and storage areas. A planting screen, consisting of suitable shrubbery and trees, shall be planted wherever the industrial use abuts any other use district. Such screen shall consist of shrubbery and trees at least five feet in height when planted and shall be maintained at not less than 20 feet in height when full grown or as approved by the Administrative Official.

(Ord. 887, § 2.1201, passed - -)

   (A)   Manufacturing, processing and related activities to include the following, provided that neither junk yards, the dismantling of vehicles or the storage of dismantled vehicles, petroleum bulk plants, or outside storage of flammable gases or liquids or explosives are permitted.

      (1)   Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles; brushes and brooms.

      (2)   Carpet shops and power woodworking.

      (3)   Ceramic products such as pottery.

      (4)   Cleaning and dry cleaning plants.

      (5)   Cold storage.

      (6)   Contractors’ equipment and material storage.

      (7)   Creameries and dairies.

      (8)   Electrical appliances, such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans.

      (9)   Electrical energy production.

      (10)   Electrical equipment assembly such as radio, television and movie equipment.

      (11)   Ice, dry and natural.

      (12)   Incinerator, landfill, transfer station, or balefill for non-hazardous or non-toxic materials or waste as defined by the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and subject to the siting process thereunder.

      (13)   Laboratories: Medical, dental, research, experimental, and testing.

      (14)   Machine shops for tool, die and pattern making.

      (15)   Motor freight terminals.

      (16)   Pharmaceutical products, compounding only.

      (17)   Products from finished materials of metal, plastics, fiber, fur, glass, leather, paper, precious and semi-precious stones, or other similar materials.

      (18)   Soldering and welding.

      (19)   Tools and hardware.

      (20)   Toys.

      (21)   Watches.

      (22)   Research and development of any commodity except explosives or flammable liquid or gases.

      (23)   The production of fuel grade ethanol including: the fermentation of plant matter, the distillation of ethanol and the dehydration of ethanol.

      (24)   The production of bio-diesel fuel or its by-products.

   (B)   Additional wholesale and industrial related uses permitted in this district include:

      (1)   Places of amusement and recreation.

      (2)   Automobile and/or agricultural implement sales, repair and service stations.

      (3)   Animal hospitals when conducted entirely within an enclosed building.

      (4)   Boat sales and service.

      (5)   Business machines, repair service, storage and wholesale.

      (6)   Candy, wholesale distribution.

      (7)   Cement products, wholesale (pipe, blocks, and the like).

      (8)   Display, designers’ and builders’ shops.

      (9)   Express companies, warehouses.

      (10)   Feed and seed stores.

      (11)   Food products, brokers, distributors.

      (12)   Gasoline stations.

      (13)   Lumberyards.

      (14)   Machine and equipment rental and repair.

      (15)   Newspaper printing.

      (16)   Parking lots and garages.

      (17)   Restaurants.

      (18)   Storage of automobiles.

      (19)   Termite control contractor shops.

      (20)   Warehouses.

      (21)   Weighers, commercial.

      (22)   Welding, equipment and supplies, storage.

   (C)   The following shall not be permitted: Dwelling, boarding and rooming houses, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, apartment hotels, mobile homes or mobile home parks or courts, and any uses for living quarters not specifically provided for in the portion of this section entitled “permitted accessory uses.”

(Ord. 887, § 2.1202, passed - -; Am. Ord. 1256, passed 4-25-1995 Am. Ord. 1677, passed 9-19-2006; Am. Ord. 1686, passed 4-3-2007)

   (A)   Dwelling units for watchmen or caretakers only.

   (B)   Off-street parking and loading.

   (C)   Accessory uses clearly associated with and supplementary to the principal use of the lot or tract of land.

(Ord. 887, § 2.1203, passed - -)

   (A)   Airport or landing fields.

   (B)   Governmental uses, other than the municipality.

   (C)   Sanitary landfills and landfills.

   (D)   Manufacturing, processing or storage involving flammable or explosive materials, liquids, or gases.

   (E)   Utilities: Electrical substations, gas regulator stations, other public utility distributor facilities.

   (F)   Mineral and soil extraction development.

   (G)   Recycling, reclamation, or refuse center for non-hazardous or non-toxic materials as provided in the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and subject to the siting and/or permitting process thereunder, if any.

(Ord. 887, § 2.1204, passed - -; Am. Ord. 1256, passed 4-25-1995; Am. Ord. 1339, passed 11-19-1996)