This district is designed to provide the location and space for all manner of industrial uses, wholesale commercial and industrial storage facilities. It is the purpose of these regulations to permit the development of certain functions; to protect the abutting residential and commercial properties from incompatible industrial activities; to restrict the intrusion of nonrelated uses, such as residential, retail business and commercial, and to encourage the discontinuance of uses presently existing in the district, which are nonconforming by virtue of the type of use. To these ends, certain uses are excluded which would function more effectively in other districts and which would interfere with the operation of the uses permitted in this district.

(Ord. of 7-22-2013, § 41.01)

The following buildings, structures, and uses of parcels, lots, buildings and structures, are permitted in this district.

(1)

All permitted uses allowed in LI—Limited Industrial Districts, as provided in section 36-509.

(2)

Wholesale auto auctions.

(3)

Contractor's establishment not engaging in any retail activities on the site.

(4)

Manufacturing.

(5)

Trucking and cartage facilities, truck and industrial equipment storage yards, repairing and washing equipment and yards.

(6)

Manufacturing product warehousing, exchange and storage centers and yards.

(7)

Open industrial uses, but not including concrete and asphalt mixing or production plants, or industrial product or materials storage, including storage of materials, inoperative equipment, vehicles or supplies; provided that any activity in which products or materials being processed or stored are located, transported, or treated outside of a building and are not within enclosed apparatus vessels, or conduits, such use shall be provided with a solid permanently maintained wall or fence, no lower than the subject use or storage, and constructed to provide firm anchoring of fence posts to concrete set below the frost line; if a wall is provided, its foundations likewise shall extend below the frost line.

(8)

Wholesale businesses, including warehouse and storage, commercial laundries, dry cleaning establishments, ice and cold storage plants, lumber, fuel and feed yards, automobile repair garages, construction and farm equipment sales and contractor's equipment yards.

(9)

An accessory use, building or structure.

(10)

Reserved.

(Ord. of 7-22-2013, § 41.02; Ord. No. 14-35, § 1, 1-13-2015)

The following buildings and structures, and uses of parcels, lots, buildings and structures, are permitted subject to obtaining a conditional use permit as provided in article XXVII of this chapter:

(1)

Vehicle towing services.

(2)

Plating shops.

(3)

Heat treating processes.

(4)

Junkyards and inoperative vehicle storage, subject to the provisions of this chapter and also to the provisions of the current junkyard resolution.

(5)

Retail sales of items that are the same as the items sold at wholesale on the premises, or are related by use or design to such wholesale items; provided that the total amount of retail sales shall not exceed 25 percent of the annual wholesale sales on the premises. Retail sales shall be strictly incidental to wholesale sales.

(6)

Concrete and asphalt mixing or production plants.

(7)

Outdoor storage of recreational vehicles, subject to the requirements of section 36-703.

(8)

Other similar uses.

(9)

Commercial communications apparatus, if located on existing commercial communications or electrical towers, or other existing appropriate structure, and subject to the provisions of section 36-720, in addition to the requirements of article XXVII of this chapter.

(10)

Kennels, subject to the requirements of section 36-714.

(11)

Marihuana establishments and facilities, subject to the standards of section 36-738, including:

a.

Growers, all licenses permitted.

b.

Processors.

c.

Secure transporters.

d.

Safety compliance facilities.

e.

Microbusinesses.

(Ord. of 7-22-2013, § 41.03; Ord. No. 14-35, § 1, 1-13-2015; Ord. No. 16-52, § 2, 10-11-2016; Ord. No. 19-66, § H, 11-12-2019)

The following regulations shall apply in all GI—General Industrial Districts:

(1)

Lot area. No building or structure shall be established on any lot less than five acres in area.

(2)

Lot width. The minimum lot width shall be 200 feet.

(3)

Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage shall not exceed 25 percent.

(4)

Reserved.

(5)

Yard and setback requirements.

a.

Front yard. Not less than 85 feet.

b.

Side yards. Least width of either yard shall not be less than 50 feet; except in the case of a corner lot, where the side yard or the road or street shall not be less than 60 feet.

c.

Rear yard. Not less than 50 feet.

The requirements in this subsection (5) shall apply to every lot, building or structure.

(6)

Height. No building or structure shall exceed a height of 50 feet.

(7)

Transition strips.

a.

On every lot in the district which abuts a lot in a conservation preservation, agricultural, residential (including mobile homes), commercial, office, or research/technology district, there shall be provided a transition strip. Such transition strip shall be not less than 50 feet in width, shall be provided along every lot line, except a front lot line, which abuts a lot in such districts, shall not be included as part of the yard required around a building or structure, and shall be improved, when said lot in this district is improved, with a screen wall or hedge not less than four feet nor more than eight feet in height, and maintained in good condition.

b.

A use or structure on any lot in this district fronting a public road, street or way shall provide, in addition to and as an integral part of any site development, on the front yard, a landscaped strip of land 20 feet or more in depth; such landscaped strip to be defined by a curb, and designed to provide access to the lot and separate off-street parking areas from the public right-of-way.

(8)

Required off-street parking. As required in article XXV of this chapter.

(9)

Required site plan review. As required in article XXVIII of this chapter.

(10)

Supplemental regulations. As required in article XXIV of this chapter.

(Ord. of 7-22-2013, § 41.04; Ord. No. 14-35, § 1, 1-13-2015)