The I-1 industrial park district is designed to provide a parklike development for industry with controls based upon industry performance as well as type. Part of the effectiveness of this control provides for a 50-foot buffer strip along the Maumelle Boulevard right-of-way, which is now generally tree covered, and if carefully landscaped, tailored and groomed, can allow occasional glimpses of the facilities beyond, but generally shields the resident and visitor to the city from the industries of the area. The provisions of this division will provide an efficient operating environment for industries and protect them from the encroachment of commercial and residential uses adverse to their operation and expansion.

(a)

Hazard restrictions and performance standards. It is the intent of this section to prevent land or buildings from being used or occupied in any manner to create any dangerous, injurious, noxious or otherwise objectionable condition related to fire, explosion, radioactivity, noise or vibration; smoke, dust, odor or other forms of air pollution; electrical or other disturbance; glare or heat, liquid or solid hazardous wastes or any dangerous or objectionable elements in a manner or amount to adversely affect the surrounding area.

(b)

Visual restrictions. All permitted uses and accessory activities shall be confined within completely enclosed buildings with the exception of off-street parking spaces, off-street loading berths, accessory or fuel storage and employee recreational facilities. In addition, no goods, equipment, supplies or other materials shall be stored in the open except on the rear two-thirds of any lot, and then only when such open storage is no higher than six feet and is fenced with a screening fence at least six feet in height.

(c)

Application. All proposals for development and uses of land and buildings are subject to site plan review submitted to and approved by the planning commission. In addition, the applicant shall submit a description of the proposed operation, including machinery, processes and products. The applicant will include specifications for the mechanisms, techniques and operations in sufficient detail so that the planning commission can determine or have determined whether the industrial pursuit meets the criteria of subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

(a)

Permitted uses. The following are permitted uses in the I-1 district:

Dwellings, only as living quarters for caretakers, and/or watchmen and their families.

Helistop.

Industrial and manufacturing uses which operate in conformance with the performance standards espoused by this section.

Off-street parking of motor vehicles as an accessory use.

Office buildings.

Public utility buildings and utility structures not otherwise permitted in other districts, including overhead electric power and energy transmission and distribution lines suspended from multilegged structures, aboveground pipelines, radio and television broadcasting stations and towers, and accessory structures.

Ready-mix plant for concrete.

Research, experimental and testing laboratories.

Retail sales and consumer service establishments (not including warehouse sales), accessory to any permitted use, and dealing primarily with employees of establishments permitted as principal uses, provided that such commercial uses shall not occupy more than five percent of the total floor area of all buildings on any lot or group of contiguous lots in common ownership or control.

Secondary schools, vocational technical schools and colleges.

Signs in accord with current city sign regulations, chapter 58.

Swimming pools, recreational facilities and dining facilities for use in connection with the operation of an establishment and primarily for employees as accessory buildings and uses.

Underground pipelines, underground electric power and energy transmission and distribution lines, underground or overhead telephone or telegraph lines, overhead electric power and energy transmission and distribution lines.

Warehouses and storage buildings.

Wireless communication facilities in compliance with section 78-71.

(b)

Accessory uses. A day care center in connection with an existing industrial facility is permitted as an accessory use.

(c)

Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted in the I-1 district subject to the approval of a conditional use permit and all its required submissions and conditions. See section 94-91 for required submissions:

Churches and other religions institutions and their accessory buildings and uses.

Event center, according to and as more fully described in chapter 94, article III, division 3, as a conditional use in certain commercial zoning districts.

Health education facilities and their accessory buildings and uses.

Outdoor amusement and recreation establishments.

(d)

Prohibited uses. The following uses are expressly prohibited:

Abattoir.

Ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, asphalt.

Arsenal.

Blast furnace.

Boiler works.

Celluloid or pyroxylin (or treatment thereof).

Central mixing plant for asphalt, concrete or other paving materials.

Disinfectants.

Distillation of bones.

Distillation of coal, tar or wood.

Dump.

Dye works.

Emery cloth and/or sandpaper.

Explosives, fireworks or gunpowder, or storage of such materials.

Fat rendering, grease, lard or tallow manufacturing or processing.

Fertilizers.

Fertilizer mixing plant.

Forge plant.

Foundry.

Gas for illumination or heating.

Glue, size or gelatin.

Grist mill.

Incinerator, or reduction of dead animals, garbage or offal, except when operated or licensed by a duly authorized public agency.

Insecticides.

Junkyard.

Lampblack.

Leather goods.

Linoleum.

Manufacture of:

Acetylene.

Brick, clay, terracotta and tile products.

Chemicals, including sulfuric, nitric or hydrochloric or other corrosive or offensive acids.

Cinder block.

Printing ink.

Rayon or similar products.

Starch, glucose, or dextrin.

Stove polish.

Matches.

Mortar, lime, plaster, cement, gypsum.

Oil cloth and/or oiled products.

Ore reduction.

Packinghouse, including meat canning or curing.

Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish employing a boiling or rendering process.

Plastics.

Potash.

Railroad yard or roundhouse.

Refining or storage of petroleum, ethanol, or other dangerous, injurious, noxious, or otherwise objectionable substance that may create a condition related to fire, explosion, radioactivity, noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, other forms of air pollution, disturbances electrical or otherwise, glare, heat, hazardous wastes, or other objectionable elements in a manner or amount to adversely affect the health and safety in the surrounding area.

Rock crusher, washing and screening plants.

Rolling mill.

Rubber or products made from rubber.

Sand, gravel or clay pit; rock or stone quarry.

Sawmill.

Shoe blacking or polish.

Smelting.

Soap.

Soda or soda compound.

Steam power plant.

Stockyard.

Sugar refining.

Sulfuric, nitric, hydrochloric or other corrosive acids.

Tallow, grease or lard.

Tanning, curing or storage of leather, rawhides or skins.

Tar or tarroofing or waterproofing or other tar products, or their distillation.

Wool pulling or scouring.

Yeast.

Any other use which is found by the planning commission to be a public nuisance by reason of the emission of dust, fumes, gas, smoke, odor, noise, vibration or other disturbance is and shall be expressly prohibited.

(Ord. No. 243, § 1, 12-5-1994; Ord. No. 332, § 2(K), 1-21-1999; Ord. No. 464, § 2, 5-5-2002; Ord. No. 724, § 3, 12-7-2009; Ord. No. 742, § 2, 4-19-2010; Ord. No. 935, § 1, 6-22-2017; Ord. No. 1118, § 5, 5-20-2024)

(a)

Required yards and landscaped areas. In the I-1 district:

(1)

No principal or accessory building, parking area, loading or maneuvering area shall be located:

a.

Less than 15 feet from any lot line.

b.

Less than 50 feet from the boundary of any residence lot or from the boundary of any lot used for an educational institution.

c.

Less than the following minimum distances from the street right-of-way line or proposed street right-of-way of the following types of streets or highways as designated on the master street plan:

Class II .....75 feet

Class III and IV .....75 feet

Class V and VI or a private way within the industrial park .....50 feet

(2)

The required yards set forth in subsection (a)(1) of this section shall be landscaped in accordance with a plan approved by the planning commission. Landscaping shall mean the planting of grass, shrubs, trees and other comparable groundcover. To the maximum extent possible, driveways within such landscaped areas shall cross the areas by the most direct line; and all planting screens or walls required shall be located adjacent to parking areas rather than on the periphery of the lot. Such landscaped areas shall be maintained at all times.

(b)

Street access and frontage.

(1)

Each lot shall have a minimum frontage of 100 feet on a street or private way; however, the planning commission may approve a lesser frontage to a minimum of 60 feet for lots located on culs-de-sac or on street curves or having other extraordinary characteristics. Vehicular access shall be permitted only to one of the following types of streets:

a.

Class II.

b.

Class III or IV.

c.

A class V or VI or private way connecting only with class II, III or IV street.

(2)

The designation of any street or highway as to type shall be in conformance with that shown on the master street plan.

(c)

Building height limit. No building or other freestanding structure shall exceed a height of 50 feet at the building line. Building heights greater than 50 feet must be set back from the building line at a rate of three feet for each additional one foot of building height. Example: A building line has a maximum allowable building of 50 feet. If a building height of 55 feet is required, the new building line would be an additional 15 feet.

(d)

Lot coverage. Not more than 50 percent of the area of the lot may be covered by buildings, including accessory buildings.

(e)

Spacing between buildings. No building other than an accessory building shall be located closer to any other building than a distance equal to the height of the higher building, and in no event less than 30 feet from the other building.

(f)

Off-street parking.

(1)

Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions set forth in article IV, division 3 of this chapter; except that for an industrial or manufacturing establishment or warehouse or similar use, the minimum requirement shall be one parking space for each 1½ employees, or one for each two employees on combined major and second shifts, and in addition one visitor parking space for every ten employees; except that the planning commission may authorize fewer visitor parking spaces if found that a fewer number will be sufficient for the operation anticipated. In addition to the foregoing, one parking space shall be provided for each company-owned or leased truck, passenger car or other vehicle located or principally based on the premises.

(2)

No parking spaces may be located within required front yards; except that an area equivalent to not more than 30 percent of the total area of all required parking spaces may be located within a required yard for use as parking space for visitors, selected personnel and minor deliveries. Off-street parking spaces may be grouped in facilities serving more than one lot or establishment.

(3)

When the lot on which parking spaces are located abuts the rear or side lot line of or is across the street from any residential land, a wall, fence or evergreen planting shall be maintained so as to screen substantially the parking lot from view from the nearest residential property. The screening shall be maintained in good condition at all times. In parking lots of one acre or more, at least five percent of the area of the parking lot shall be devoted to landscaping within the interior of the parking area.