The IH Heavy Industrial District is intended to create, preserve and enhance areas containing manufacturing or related establishments which are potentially incompatible with most other establishments, and is typically appropriate to areas which are most distant from residential areas and which have extensive rail or shipping facilities.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

A.

Bars, taverns, and cocktail lounges. Bars, taverns, and cocktail lounges are not and shall not be allowed within the IH zone in or on any property having frontage on or within 300 feet of Garrity Boulevard. Existing bars, taverns, cocktail lounges fronting that boulevard are considered legally nonconforming in accordance with the provisions of chapter 3 of this title but may not be expanded as also stated in that chapter.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021)

All uses shall conform to the general provisions concerning performance standards as required by chapter 1 of this title.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4873, § 12, 6-16-2025)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, repealed § 10-20-3, which pertained to special hazardous uses requiring conditional use permits and derived from Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), adopted October 4, 2021. Subsequently, Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, renumbered the former §§ 10-20-4—10-20-8 as §§ 10-20-3—10-20-7. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.

None specified.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4873, § 12, 6-16-2025)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, renumbered the former § 10-20-5 as § 10-20-4. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.

The following minimum requirements shall be observed:

A.

Property area. No minimum is/shall be required.

B.

Property width. No minimum is/shall be required.

C.

Front yard setback(s). Minimum required setback shall be ten feet from the property line (or future right-of-way where known or determined by the city engineer); when building height exceeds 35 feet, plus one additional foot of setback shall be required per each one foot of building height above 35 feet.

D.

Minimum side and rear property setbacks. Properties within the IH district are not/shall not be required to provide side and rear property setbacks if said lots or development sites abut property lines of commercially or industrially zoned property. When side or rear property lines of property zoned IH abut property residentially zoned, rear and side property setbacks of not less than 30 feet wide/deep shall be required opposite the abutting residential district.

E.

Access. All lots/parcels developed/"built out," or proposed to be developed/"built out," with structures thereon shall have, or be demonstrated to have, legal access to a public street, before the city may issue or approve construction of any structures on that lot/parcel (as iterated in the definition of "property" in section 10-1-2, Definitions, and subsection 10-1-7.B.1 of this title). Lots/parcels developed in this zone do not have to have direct lot/parcel frontage on a public street however, only legal access to the same.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022; Ord. No. 4873, § 12, 6-16-2025)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, renumbered the former § 10-20-6 as § 10-20-5. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.

None specified.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4873, § 12, 6-16-2025)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, renumbered the former § 10-20-7 as § 10-20-6. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.

All uses shall conform to the fencing, parking, parking lot landscaping, signage, and property landscaping requirements in chapters 1, 22, 23, 33 and 34 of this title.

A.

Landscaping established. All landscaping shall be established in accordance with the requirements of chapters 22 and 33 of this title, additionally:

1.

Landscaping adjacent to residential districts. All sites having a common boundary line with a residentially classified property shall have planted and maintained a view obscuring coniferous greenbelt of shrubs, trees and native vegetation not less than six feet in height nor less than ten feet in width, for screening purposes and controlling access.

B.

Setback from residential districts. In any IH district directly across a street or thoroughfare from a residential district or "very low density residential" district designated for future residential use in the comprehensive plan, the parking and loading facilities shall be distant at least 20 feet from the street, and the buildings and structures at least 50 feet from the street; provided, this requirement shall not apply when the street or thoroughfare is provided on one or both sides with a service road developed in accordance with the provisions of chapter 27 of this title.

C.

Exterior storage. Exterior storage of raw or primary materials, waste products and construction materials shall be prohibited in that area of the property between the front of the principal building(s) and the public street on which the principal building(s) fronts. Any such exterior storage elsewhere on the property shall be screened by fencing or landscaping.

(Ord. No. 4617, § 1(Exh. A), 10-4-2021; Ord. No. 4702, § 1(Exh. A), 12-5-2022; Ord. No. 4777, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2023; Ord. No. 4842, § 6, 2-3-2025; Ord. No. 4873, § 12, 6-16-2025)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 4873, § 12, adopted June 16, 2025, renumbered the former § 10-20-8 as § 10-20-7. The historical notation has been retained with the amended provisions for reference purposes.