(A)   The I-1 Light Industrial Districts are designed so as to primarily accommodate wholesale and warehouse activities, and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the districts and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material. It being the intent of this section that the processing of raw material for shipment in bulk form, to be used in an industrial operation at another location, not be permitted.

   (B)   The following regulations shall apply to all I-1 Districts and no building, structure or premises, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used except for 1 or more of the following uses.

(Prior Code, App., § 900)

   (A)   Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding or processing shall be totally obscured by a wall or obscuring fence not less than 5 feet in height, on those sides abutting any residential district, and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In I-1 Districts the extent of such wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage.

      (1)   The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as: bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery; tool; die, gauge and machine shops;

      (2)   The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials; bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal (excluding large stampings such as automobile fenders or bodies), shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood (excluding saw and planing mills) and yarns;

      (3)   The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;

      (4)   Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and metal or rubber stamps, or other small moulded rubber products;

      (5)   Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs;

      (6)   Laboratories: experimental, film or testing;

      (7)   Manufacture and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like;

      (8)   Warehouse and wholesale establishments and truck terminal facilities;

      (9)   Central dry cleaning plants or laundries provided that such plants shall not deal directly with consumer at retail; and

      (10)   All public utilities, including buildings, necessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.

   (B)   Trade or industrial schools;

   (C)   Truck rental and leasing (S.I.C. Code 7513), provided all display areas are paved and properly drained in accordance with the City Code;

   (D)   Any use charged with the principal functions of basic research, design and pilot or experimental product development;

   (E)   Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above permitted uses;

   (F)   Nonaccessory, freestanding signs; and

   (G)   Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to those principal uses permitted.

(Prior Code, App., § 901) (Ord. 98-4, passed 5-21-1998)

   The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to the review and approval of the Planning Commission.

   (A)   Restaurants or other places serving food or beverage except those having the character of a drive-in so called, automobile service stations, newsstands and tobacco shops, which in the opinion of the Planning Commission are intended to serve the convenience needs of persons working in the I-1 District, subject to the regulations applicable to such uses;

   (B)   Automobile repair station, automobile or other machinery assembly plants, painting and varnishing shops, undercoating shops;

   (C)   Storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone lumber, open storage or construction contractor’s equipment and supplies, provided such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting any residential district and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare. In I-1 Districts the extent of such wall may be determined by the Planning Commission on the basis of usage. Such wall shall be not less than 5 feet in height and may, depending upon land usage, be required to be 8 feet in height, and shall be subject further to the requirements hereof;

   (D)   Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances; and

   (E)   Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character, and which will not be injurious or have an adverse effect on adjacent areas, any may therefore be permitted subject to such conditions, restrictions and safeguards as may be deemed necessary in the interest of public health, safety and welfare.

(Prior Code, App., § 902)

   Any use established in the I-1 District after the effective date of this chapter shall be operated so as to comply with the performance standards set forth hereinafter.

(Prior Code, App., § 903)

   See § 160.195 limiting the height and bulk of buildings and the minimum size of lot by permitted land use.

(Prior Code, App., § 904)