The general industrial district is designed to allow uses relating to manufacturing, processing, production, storage, fabrication and distribution of goods or similar as defined by the community development director. The uses permitted in the general industrial district are intended to protect existing industrial and employment lands to improve the region's economic climate and protect the supply of sites for employment by limiting new and expanded retail commercial uses to those appropriate in type and size to serve the needs of businesses, employees, and residents of the industrial areas.

(Ord. No. 08-1014, §§ 1—3(Exhs. 1—3), 7-1-2009; Ord. No. 18-1009, § 1(Exh. A), 7-3-2019; Ord. No. 19-1008, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2019)

In the GI district, the following uses are permitted:

A.

Manufacturing and/or fabrication;

B.

Distributing, wholesaling and warehousing, excluding explosives and substances which cause an undue hazard to the public health, welfare and safety;

C.

Heavy equipment service, repair, sales, rental or storage (includes but is not limited to construction equipment and machinery and farming equipment);

D.

Veterinary or pet hospital, kennel;

E.

Necessary dwellings for caretakers and watchmen (all other residential uses are prohibited);

F.

Retail sales and services, including but not limited to eating establishments for employees (i.e. a cafe or sandwich shop) or marijuana, located in a single building or in multiple buildings that are part of the same development shall be limited to a maximum of twenty thousand square feet or five percent of the building square footage, whichever is less and the retail sales and services shall not occupy more than ten percent of the net developable portion of all contiguous industrial lands;

G.

Emergency service facilities (police and fire), excluding correctional facilities;

H.

Outdoor sales and storage;

I.

Recycling center and solid waste facility;

J.

Wrecking yards;

K.

Public utilities, including sub-stations (such as buildings, plants and other structures);

L.

Utilities: Basic and linear facilities, such as water, sewer, power, telephone, cable, electrical and natural gas lines, not including major facilities such as sewage and water treatment plants, pump stations, water tanks, telephone exchanges and cell towers;

M.

Storage facilities;

N.

Transportation facilities;

O.

Marijuana production, processing, wholesaling, and laboratories;

P.

Mobile food units operating on a property for less than five hours in a twenty-four-hour period.

(Ord. No. 08-1014, §§ 1—3(Exhs. 1—3), 7-1-2009; Ord. No. 13-1003, § 1(Exh. 1), 7-17-2013; Ord. No. 16-1008, § 1(Exh. A), 10-19-2016, ballot 11-8-2016; Ord. No. 18-1009, § 1(Exh. A), 7-3-2019; Ord. No. 19-1008, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2019)

The following conditional uses are permitted in this district when authorized and in accordance with the standards contained in OCMC 17.56:

A.

Any use in which more than half of the business is conducted outdoors;

B.

Hospitals.

(Ord. No. 08-1014, §§ 1—3(Exhs. 1—3), 7-1-2009; Ord. No. 18-1009, § 1(Exh. A), 7-3-2019; Ord. No. 19-1008, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2019)

Dimensional standards in the GI district are:

A.

Minimum lot area, minimum not required;

B.

Maximum building height, three stories, not to exceed forty feet;

C.

Minimum required setbacks:

1.

Front yard, ten feet minimum setback;

2.

Interior side yard, no minimum setback;

3.

Corner side yard, ten feet minimum setback;

4.

Rear yard, ten feet minimum setback;

Public utility easements may supersede the minimum setback. Maximum setback may be increased per OCMC 17.62.055.D.

D.

Buffer Zone. If a use in this zone abuts or faces a residential or commercial use, a yard of at least twenty-five feet shall be required on the side abutting or facing the adjacent residential use and commercial uses in order to provide a buffer area, and sight obscuring landscaping thereof shall be subject to site plan review. The community development director may waive any of the foregoing requirements if he/she determines that the requirement is unnecessary in the particular case.

E.

Outdoor storage within building or yard space other than required setbacks and such occupied yard space shall be enclosed by a sight-obscuring wall or fence of sturdy construction and uniform color or an evergreen hedge not less than six feet in height located outside the required yard, further provided that such wall or fence shall not be used for advertising purposes.

F.

Minimum required landscaping (including landscaping within a parking lot): Fifteen percent.

(Ord. No. 08-1014, §§ 1—3(Exhs. 1—3), 7-1-2009; Ord. No. 18-1009, § 1(Exh. A), 7-3-2019; Ord. No. 19-1008, § 1(Exh. A), 12-18-2019; Ord. No. 21-1007, § 1(Exh. A), 4-21-2021)