General industrial districts are designed primarily for manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication activities including large scale or specialized industrial operations, whose external physical effects will be felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 districts are so structured as to permit the manufacturing, processing and composing of semi finished or finished products from raw materials as well as from previously prepared material.

(Ord. No. 844, § 2, 3-18-24)

(1)

In an I-2 district, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one (1) or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

(a)

Any principal use first permitted in an I-1 district;

(b)

On-site heating and electric power generating plants using conventional fuels or renewable resources;

(c)

Gasoline or petroleum storage;

(d)

Railroad yards;

(e)

Any of the following production or manufacturing uses (not including storage of finished products) provided that they are located not less than eight hundred (800) feet distant from any residential district and not less than three hundred (300) feet distant from any other district:

Junkyards, provided such are entirely enclosed within a building or the site meets section 38-35 wall requirements and provided further that one (1) property line abuts a railroad right-of-way.

(f)

Foundry operations within a closed building;

(g)

Any other use which shall be determined by the council after recommendation from the planning commission, to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses in this section. The council may impose any required setbacks and/or performance standards so as to ensure public health, safety and general welfare;

(h)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted uses.

(2)

Additional uses allowed by special use permit:

(a)

Grain elevators;

(b)

Any of the following production or manufacturing uses (not including storage of finished products) provided that they are located not less than eight hundred (800) feet distant from any residential district and not less than three hundred (300) feet distant from any other district:

(c)

Incineration of garbage or refuse when conducted within an approved and enclosed incinerator plant;

(d)

Blast furnace, steel furnace, blooming or rolling mill;

(e)

Manufacture of corrosive acid or alkali, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris;

(f)

Petroleum or other inflammable liquids, production or refining;

(g)

Smelting of copper, iron or zinc ore.

(Ord. No. 844, § 2, 3-18-24)

All uses within the general industrial district shall adhere to the following area, height, bulk, and placement regulations:

Footnotes for section 38-123 schedule limiting height, bulk, density and area:

(a)

Refer to Article XVII, landscape standards and tree replacement for required setback and buffering based on adjacent zoning districts.

(b)

All yard areas shall be lawn, ground cover or living landscape plant materials, except for access drives, sidewalks, bike paths, architectural features, permitted accessory buildings and essential service facilities.

(c)

Refer to section 38-53, projections into yards.

(d)

Refer to subsection 38-183, off-street parking space design and setback requirements

;av=6q; ¹Front yard requirements in accordance with section 38-36, front yard requirements. Front yard setback reductions are permitted as follows:

(a)

Where the front yards for existing main buildings in the vicinity of, and in the same zoning districts as a subject lot are less than the required front yard for the zoning district of the subject lot, the required front yard for the subject lot shall be no less than ninety (90) percent and no more than one hundred thirty-five (135) percent of the average established front setback of existing main buildings on the same side of the street and entirely or partially within three hundred (300) feet of the side lot lines of the subject lot, subject to subsections b. and c. below.

(b)

The front yard setback reduction shall only be permitted if there are two (2) or more lots occupied by main buildings within the area described in subsection a, above, for computing the average front yard.

(c)

In no case shall the required front yard resulting from the application of subsection a & b, above, be less than fifteen (15) feet.

(Ord. No. 844, § 2, 3-18-24)

All principal uses and special land uses are subject to the following site development requirements:

(1)

Article II: General provisions.

(2)

Article XIII: Site plan review.

(3)

Article XV: Off-street parking and loading standards.

(4)

Article XVI: Access management and driveway standards.

(5)

Article XVII: Landscape standards and tree replacement.

(6)

Article XVIII: Lighting standards.

(7)

Article XX: Signs.

(Ord. No. 844, § 2, 3-18-24)