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Milan City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 15

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

11-15A-1: PURPOSE:

The light industrial district is intended to provide for the development of most types of industry with regulations designed to protect adjacent properties. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15A-2: PERMITTED USES:

Apparel and other products manufactured from textiles.
Assembly of products from finished materials and parts.
Bottling and canning of soft drinks.
Cabinet making.
Food processing.
Fur repair and storage.
Laboratories.
Laundry, dry cleaning, dyeing except walk-in/drive-up photo processing involving photo engraving.
Printing and binding.
Services, provided not more than five percent (5%) of the business comes from retail on premises sales, and except repair or reconditioning of any motor vehicles.
Wholesaling, warehousing and storage, except miniwarehousing.
Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer upon consultation with the planning commission. Decisions of the zoning officer may be appealed to the zoning board of appeals. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15A-3: PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES:

Offices.
Other accessory uses incidental to a permitted use. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15A-4: PROHIBITED USES:

Uses prohibited in an office/research park and technology district, except outdoor advertising.
Disposal or storage of toxic waste. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15A-5: LOT AND YARD REQUIREMENTS:

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory buildings along with buffer yard requirements as described in section 11-22-3 of this title. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.
 
Height
Front Yard
Side Yard
Rear Yard
Other
45 feet
1 - 3 stories - 20 feet
15 feet
20 feet
In accordance with performance standards
If > 3 stories - 40 percent of building height
 
(Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15B-1: PURPOSE:

The general industrial district is intended to provide for manufacturing facilities not otherwise permitted in an I-1 district. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15B-2: PERMITTED USES:

Any use permitted in an I-1 district.
Asphalt/Central Ready Mix Plant when located three hundred fifty feet (350') or more from residentially zoned property.
Automobile salvage and wrecking operations and industrial metal and waste salvage operations and junkyards not less than two hundred feet (200') from any B district and one thousand feet (1,000') from any state or federal highway, enclosed on all sides with solid masonry wall at least twelve feet (12') high with no pile of salvage, scrap or other material higher than twelve feet (12').
Automobile, tractor-trailer, farm implement assembly or manufacture.
Box and crate manufacturer.
Candle or sperm oil manufacture.
Cans and other types of containers manufacture.
Coffin manufacture.
Cooperage works.
Dyes, aniline, ink pigments and others manufacture.
Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacture.
Enameling, lacquering or japanning.
Fish curing, smoking or packing, fish oil manufacture or refining.
Flour, grain or feed milling or processing.
Freight terminal.
Gelatin, vegetable and animal manufacture.
Glass blowing and manufacture.
Grain elevators.
Hair or hair products manufacture.
Hemp products manufacture.
Linoleum, oil cloth or oiled goods manufacture.
Lumber, preserving treatment, processing, sawmills and planing mills manufacture.
Machinery, heavy manufacture and repair.
Meat packing and processing except slaughtering and glue and size manufacture, but not stockyards or slaughterhouses.
Metal stamping and extrusion of metal products manufacture and plating.
Motor testing or internal combustion motors manufacture.
Perfume manufacture.
Pickle, sauerkraut, sausage manufacture.
Porcelain products manufacture.
Poultry slaughterhouse, including packing and storage for wholesale.
Recycling centers and stations.
Rock crushing.
Sandblasting or cutting.
Scrap and salvage services when enclosed inside a building.
Shooting range.
Stone and monument works employing power driven tools.
Wire or rod drawing - nut, screw or bolt manufacture.
Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer upon consultation with the planning commission. Decisions of the zoning officer may be appealed to the zoning board of appeals. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15B-3: PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES:

Permitted accessory uses in an I-1 district.
Other uses incidental to a principal use. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15B-4: PROHIBITED USES:

Any prohibited use in an I-1 district, except auto salvage yard and freight terminal. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15B-5: LOT AND YARD REQUIREMENTS:

 
Height
Front Yard
Side Yard
Rear Yard
Other
75 feet
< 50 feet - 20 feet
15 feet
< 50 feet - 20 feet
In accordance with performance standards
> 50 feet - 40 percent of building height
> 50 feet - 30 feet
 
(Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15C-1: PURPOSE:

The heavy industrial district is intended to provide for large scale manufacturing facilities not otherwise permitted which have potential significant external impact to adjacent properties. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15C-2: PERMITTED USES:

Any use permitted in an I-2 district.
Acetylene manufacturing in excess of fifteen (15) pounds per square inch.
Acid manufacture.
Aircraft, assembly and testing.
Ammonia, chlorine or bleach powder manufacture.
Animal black, lamp black, bone black or graphite manufacture.
Asbestos and asbestos products manufacture.
Aviation facilities, private and public.
Blast furnaces, steel works or rolling mills.
Bleaching, cleaning and dyeing plant.
Boiler shops, machine shops, structural steel fabricating shops, railway car or locomotive shops, including repair, metal working shops.
Brewing or distilling of liquors.
Brick manufacture.
Bulk station.
Celluloid or pyroxylin manufacture, or explosive or inflammable cellulose manufacture or storage.
Cement, lime, gypsum, plaster or plaster of paris manufacture.
Chalk manufacture.
Charcoal manufacture.
Chemicals, the manufacture or use of, except those which may be inflammable or explosive.
Cotton ginning and cotton wadding.
Cottonseed oil manufacture.
Creosote manufacture or treatment.
Dextrin, starch or glucose manufacture.
Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture.
Disposal or storage of toxic waste.
Distillation of coal, petroleum, refuse, grain, wood or bones except in the manufacture of gas.
Explosive manufacture or storage except for small arms ammunition.
Fertilizer, compost manufacture or storage.
Flammable liquids storage not to exceed a total of twenty five thousand (25,000) gallons.
Foundry works.
Gas generation or storage for illumination or heating.
Landfill, construction debris, rubble, or sanitary.
Match manufacture.
Oil, shellac, turpentine, varnish or enamel manufacture.
Paper and pulp manufacture.
Petroleum or flammable liquids production and refining.
Railroad equipment manufacture.
Resource extraction.
Rubber manufacture and processing.
Rubber products, including tires and tubes and tire recapping.
Sewage disposal plant or incinerator, recycling or composting operation except by the village.
Shoe blacking or polish or stove polish manufacture.
Soap manufacture.
Steam power plant, except where accessory to a permitted principal use.
Storage, curing or tanning of raw, green or salted hides or skins when refrigerated storage is provided.
Storage of flammable liquids when facilities are located at least six hundred feet (600') from any R district and are at least three hundred feet (300') from any other district except I districts and are enclosed by a fence at least eight feet (8') in height.
Sugar refining.
Tar distillation or asphalt roofing or waterproofing manufacture.
Transfer station for waste.
Vinegar manufacture.
Wax products manufacture.
Wool scouring and pulling.
Yeast manufacture.
Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer after consultation with the planning commission. Decisions of the zoning officer may be appealed to the zoning board of appeals. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15C-3: PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES:

Permitted accessory uses in an I-2 district.
Other uses incidental to a principal use. (Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)

11-15C-4: LOT AND YARD REQUIREMENTS:

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory buildings along with buffer yard requirements as described in section 11-22-3 of this title. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.
 
Height
Front Yard
Side Yard
Rear Yard
Other
75 feet
< 50 feet - 20 feet
15 feet
< 50 feet - 20 feet
In accordance with performance standards
> 50 feet - 40 percent of building height
> 50 feet - 30 feet
 
(Ord. 1519, 7-6-2010)