Malcolm City Zoning Code

The Industrial Park District is intended to provide a setting for light industry or occasional low impact land use that is attractive, suitable for efficient operations, and not objectionable to adjacent land uses. It is intended to be comprised of more than one industrial user on a tract in excess of 200,000 square feet. The purpose is to allow a cluster of uses upon a tract providing a buffer for the industry from other uses in the Village.

1. (Revised November 5, 2003, Ordinance 2003-08) All of the requirements of the Industrial District apply to the Industrial Park District except the setbacks apply to the perimeter of the entire district no the individual lots making up the district and except the square footage required per use shall be 66,666 (thus allowing three uses per the minimum 200,000 square feet).
2. All uses shall be by special permit which shall govern the placement of uses within the Park.
3. (Revised November 5, 2003, Ordinance 2003-08) Minimum size requirements; 200,000 square feet. Uses are not limited to separate 66,666 square foot tracts but the uses may be congregated in one area of the Park with the remainder left open space.
4. Streets located in the Industrial Park District may be private. Each Industrial Park shall have access to public streets and utilities at the perimeter of the Park but internal distribution of utilities may be private.

All users and uses of the Industrial Park District must be approved by the Village. Industrial Park District uses that are consistent with the Village Code, especially Chapter 4 nuisance and State and Federal Environmental requirements shall be permitted and must establish the following in a written use permit.

1. Water use shall not exceed 50,000 gal. limit unless otherwise specifically approved by the Village Board
2. A site plan for the plat, including landscape and sidewalk details, and how utilities service the site;
3. The proposed use of the lot and each building thereon;
4. Types and amounts of discharge or waste, including noise and odor;
5. Accessibility from a public street or roadway;
6. Parking and traffic patterns and amounts;
7. That the use conforms to the requirements of this chapter. These uses generally include but are not limited to the following purposes:
   1. Assembly of metal products, welding shops;
   2. Laboratory;
   3. Manufacture and assembly of electrical and electronic appliances;
   4. Manufacture of light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilation equipment;
   5. Machine shop or other metal working;
   6. Printing and publishing business;
   7. Stone and monument works;
   8. Warehouses and wholesale business;
   9. Self-service storage facility, which means a building, group of buildings, or other facility having compartments, rooms, spaces, or other type of units that are individually leased, rented, sold or otherwise contracted for by customers for the storage of personal or business goods or property, and where the facility owner/operator has limited access to the units. For purposes of this Code, self-service storage facility shall be considered synonymous with self-storage warehouse, self-storage facility, mini-warehouse or mini-storage.
   10. Contractor’s offices and shops (if enclosed);
   11. Social or Reception Halls;
   12. Sports fields for participants and spectators.
   Live animals with the exception of domestic household pets are excluded from the Industrial District.
8. Commercial activities normally associated with a permitted industrial use, provided that the commercial activity meets all minimum requirements of the Commercial District;
9. Utility Substations;

(Revised May 4th, 2016, Ordinance 2016-01)