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Rock Island City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XXV

HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

25.1 General Description:

The General Industrial District is intended to provide for large scale manufacturing facilities not otherwise permitted which have potential significant external impacts to adjacent properties. External impacts include noise, heat, glare, dust, smoke, fumes, odor, and/or vibration. Uses may include activities that take place outside of an enclosed building unless otherwise prohibited herein or by other ordinances.

25.2 Permitted Uses:

25.2a Any use permitted in an I-1 District.
25.2b Any other use which, in the opinion of the appropriate authority, is of similar character to those specified above.
25.2c Any of the following uses, when at least two hundred feet (200') from residential zoning districts and at least one hundred feet (100') from any other district, except an I-1 District or when authorized by the appropriate authority.
25.2d Aircraft, assembly and testing.
25.2e Automobile, tractor trailer, farm implement assembly or manufacture.
25.2f Bleaching, cleaning and dyeing plant.
25.2g Boiler shops, machine shops, structural steel fabricating shops, railway car or locomotive shops, including repair, metal working shops.
25.2h Box and crate manufacture.
25.2i Brewing or distilling of liquors.
25.2j Brick manufacture.
25.2k Candle or sperm oil manufacture.
25.2l Cans and other types of containers manufacture.
25.2m Cement, lime, gypsum, plaster or plaster-of-paris manufacture.
25.2n Chalk manufacture.
25.2o Coffin manufacture.
25.2p Cooperage works.
25.2q Cottonseed oil manufacture.
25.2r Dextrin, starch or glucose manufacture.
25.2s Dyes, aniline, ink pigments and others manufacture.
25.2t Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacture.
25.2u Enameling, lacquering or japanning.
25.2v Fertilizer, compost - manufacture or storage.
25.2w Gas-generation or storage for illumination or heating.
25.2x Grain elevators.
25.2y Lumber, preserving treatment, processing, sawmills and planing mills manufacture.
25.2z Machinery, heavy manufacture and repair.
25.2aa Meat, packing and processing except slaughtering and glue and size manufacture, but not stockyards or slaughterhouses.
25.2bb Metal stamping and extrusion of metal products manufacture and plating.
25.2cc Outdoor storage yards provided that no storage area is located in the required front yard, meets all other setback requirements for accessory structures, and is screened by solid wall or fence not less than six feet (6') feet in height.
25.2dd Rubber products, including tires and tubes and tire recapping.
25.3ee Refuse equipment operation
25.2ff Sandblasting or cutting.
25.2gg Stone and monument works employing power driven tools.
25.2hh Vehicle Impound Lot and Towing Yard.
25.2Xii Wire or rod drawing - nut, screw or bolt manufacture.
25.2jj Wool scouring and pulling.
25.2kk Yeast manufacture.
25.2ll Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.

25.3 Permitted Accessory Uses:

25.3a Permitted accessory uses in an I-1 District.
25.3b Other uses incidental to a principal use.

25.4 When Authorized by the Board of Zoning Appeals:

The following non-exhaustive list of land uses are considered to be ones which have the greatest potential for use-conflict and shall therefore be subject to the maximum degree of scrutiny when authorization is considered. These uses shall not be authorized when they are within one thousand feet (1,000') of any residential zoning district. Whenever these uses are authorized, a solid ten-foot (10') fence or wall shall be erected around the entirety of the subject property that effectively obscures all views into the site. All entry points onto the subject property shall be controlled by a gate so that no person or vehicle may enter without authorization being given by the property owner or responsible party.
(a)   Any land use or activity which has the potential to threaten the public's health and safety. This includes but is not limited to the bulk storage and/or processing of explosives, volatile chemicals, fossil fuels, petroleum derivatives, pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers, radioactive material, and toxic and/or hazardous waste of any kind.
(b)   Resource extraction and processing of any kind including traditional mining and hydraulic fracturing.
(c)   Aggregate processing and production of any kind.
(d)   Asphalt and concrete processing and production of any kind.
(e)   Recycling and garbage centers as well as transfer stations for such materials.
(f)   Landfill operations for any and all kinds of waste.
(g)   Weapons processing and production of any kind.
(h)   Aviation facilities of any kind both public and private.
(i)   Junkyards and automobile wrecking yards of any kind with no pile of scrap metal, salvage, junk, or similar materials exceeding ten (10') feet in height.
(j)   Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the Board of Zoning Appeals.

25.5 Prohibited Uses:

Any prohibited use in an I-1 District, except as otherwise specified herein.

25.6 Lot Area and Yard Requirements:

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory building with all bufferyard requirements. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.
 
Height
Front Yard
Side Yard
Rear Yard
75 ft.
< 50 ft. then 20 ft. > 50 ft. then 40% of bldg. height
15 ft.
< 50 ft. then 20 ft. > 50 ft. then 30 ft.
 
(Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020; Ord. 38-2024, 6-10-2024)