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Onondaga City Zoning Code

§ 285-16

Light Industrial District, LI.

The following regulations shall apply in LI Districts:
A. 
Permitted uses.
(1) 
Business uses.
(a) 
Banks with or without drive-in window.
(b) 
Offices.
(c) 
Radio or television stations or studios without transmitting or receiving antennas or towers.
(d) 
Vocational schools.
(e) 
Equipment storage.
(f) 
Building supply.
(g) 
Adult uses, provided that such use complies with all of the following restrictions:
[Added 8-21-2000 by L.L. No. 7-2000]
[1] 
All adult uses shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Zoning Law, including without limitation those relating to structures and uses permitted in a Light Industrial District (LI) and shall also comply with all other applicable law.
[2] 
No person shall construct, establish, operate or maintain or be issued a certificate of occupancy for any adult use within the Town unless such use meets the following standards:
[a] 
No more than one adult use shall be allowed or permitted on any one lot.
[b] 
No adult use shall be allowed or permitted on a lot that is within 1,000 feet of:
[i] 
A lot on which there is another adult use.
[ii] 
Any Residential Zoning District (R-C, R-1, R-2 or R-3).
[iii] 
Any property that is utilized, in whole or in part, for residential purposes, including without limitation, structures devoted to both residential and commercial or business uses.
[iv] 
Any church or other regular place of worship, community center, library, private or public school, nursery school, day-care use, mobile home, public park, public playground, public recreational area or hotels or motels.
[c] 
Where there is a conflict between the regulations as provided in this § 285-16A(1)(g) and any other applicable law, rule or regulation, the most restrictive law, rule or regulation shall apply.
[d] 
All distances set forth herein shall be measured by following a straight line without regard to intervening structure or improvements from the nearest point of the lot line of the parcel on which the adult use is to be located to the nearest point of the lot line of the parcel of land from which the adult use is to be separated.
[3] 
No adult use shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation of any material depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities from any public way or from any other lot, including but not limited to any lighting, display, decoration, poster, photograph, video, sign, show, doorway, window, screen or other opening.
(h) 
Nursery.
[Added 6-18-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
(i) 
Public or private institutions of higher education.
[Added 12-3-2012 by L.L. No. 9-2012]
(j) 
Self-storage facility, with or without ancillary equipment storage.
[Added 2-4-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
(2) 
Industrial uses.
(a) 
Light industry.
(b) 
Research laboratory.
(c) 
Warehousing and distribution.
(d) 
Highway vehicle repair shops.
(3) 
Parking facilities.
(4) 
Facilities for the delivery of natural gas service, other than containerized natural gas, to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards. Such facilities shall not include those designed for exploration for natural gas deposits, extraction of same from the earth or activities related thereto.
[Amended 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997; 12-3-2012 by L.L. No. 8-2012]
(5) 
Facilities necessary for the provision of electrical service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
(6) 
Facilities, other than towers, necessary for the provision of telephone service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
(7) 
Facilities, other than towers, necessary for the provision of cable television service to the local community, except storage or heavy equipment yards.
[Added 3-17-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997]
B. 
Permitted accessory uses.
(1) 
Off-street parking. (See § 285-33.)
(2) 
Signs. (See § 285-34.)
(3) 
Ground-mounted solar energy systems (subject to the granting of special use permit; see § 285-36.1).
[Added 1-8-2018 by L.L. No. 1-2018]
C. 
Special permit uses.
(1) 
Methane gas recovery and energy generation at closed sanitary landfills, as provided in § 285-44.
(2) 
Solar farms. (See § 285-36.1.)
[Added 1-8-2018 by L.L. No. 1-2018]
(3) 
Emergency services facility.
[Added 1-7-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019; amended 8-21-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
D. 
Building and yard requirements.
(1) 
Maximum building height: two stories, but not more than 35 feet, except as provided in § 285-30.
(2) 
Maximum lot coverage: 40%.
(3) 
Minimum side yard: 10 feet.
(4) 
Minimum front yard: 35 feet.
(5) 
Minimum rear yard: 50 feet.
(6) 
See also §§ 285-25, 285-28, 285-29 and 285-31.
(7) 
Minimum side yard along zoning district boundaries: 50 feet each.[1]
[Added 8-3-2009 by L.L. No. 3-2009]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 35-18, General Industrial District, GI, as amended, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 8-3-2009 by L.L. No. 3-2009.