It is the intent of this district to provide locations in suitable areas for general manufacturing and warehousing businesses which because of potential land use conflicts require large, isolated sites removed from neighboring residential uses.

A.

Primary Uses Permitted Outright:

1.

Any industrial use excluding uses with a primary function of storing, utilizing, or manufacturing toxic or hazardous materials;

2.

Administrative, educational or other related activities subordinate to a permitted use on the same premises;

3.

Carpentry, cabinetry, auto repair, painting, welding or machine shop not engaged in manufacturing, sheet metal shop, tire or lube shops or other similar uses when enclosed in a building;

4.

Minor utility facility;

5.

Truck, trailer and heavy equipment sales, rental or repair;

6.

Vehicle repair shop, entirely within an enclosed building;

7.

Warehousing and distribution facilities for wholesale merchandise, with indoor or outdoor storage (not including self-service storage facilities);

8.

Wholesale lumber or building materials yard with no retail sales;

9.

Other uses similar in nature.

B.

Accessory Uses Permitted Outright:

1.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to a principal use permitted outright.

(Ord. No. 2022-26, § 6(Exh. F), 1-17-2023)

A.

Minor Conditional Uses: None.

B.

Conditional Uses:

1.

Commercial uses which the Planning Commission finds meet the following criteria:

a.

The use is supportive and complementary to the principal industrial uses in the district;

b.

The scale, activity and design of the use proposed is appropriate to the location and trade area;

c.

The use is designed and landscaped so as to blend harmoniously with the surrounding area; and,

d.

Access to the commercial use is provided by a signal-controlled intersection.

2.

Any principal use involving storing, utilizing or manufacturing toxic or hazardous materials, including but not limited to, cement; chemicals; explosives; fertilizers, organic or inorganic; gas (all kinds (artificial, natural, liquefied or compressed); paint, lacquer or varnish; paper; petroleum products of all kinds; rubber; and soap;

3.

Any principal use involving the rendering of fats, the slaughtering of fish or meat, or the fermenting of foods such as beer, wine, sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast;

4.

Brewery, distillery or winery;

5.

Concrete or asphalt batch plant;

6.

Incineration or burning of industrial wastes or by-products;

7.

Junkyards, including processing, storage or sales;

8.

Meat or poultry slaughter or packing;

9.

Night watchman or caretaker facility;

10.

Transfer station or recycling facility;

11.

Trucking terminal and distribution center;

12.

Other uses similar in nature.

A.

Special Setbacks—Side or Rear Yard Abutting a More Restrictive District.

1.

An additional ten feet shall be added for each ten-foot increment in building height over 35 feet;

2.

Measurement of the height transition area shall be made between the foundation of the proposed building and the property line of the abutting district;

3.

When the proposed structure has different sections that have different heights, the height transition area shall be measured for each vertical surface as if it were to be freestanding. The building then must be located on the site so that no section is closer to the abutting property line than it would be if the section was free-standing;

4.

The required buffering and screening and utilities may be located within the height transition area. Off-street parking, accessory structures and incidental development may be located within the height transition area but not any areas designated as buffering and screening area.

B.

Off-Street Parking. Parking shall not be located in a required standard 30-foot front setback area. Where feasible, ingress and egress to parking shall be provided from side streets or alleys. When access must be provided directly from a public right-of-way, driveways for ingress or egress shall be limited to one per 150 feet. For lots with frontage of less than 150 feet or less, shared access may be required.

A.

Design review is required for all uses.

B.

Reasonable provisions for pedestrian and vehicular off-street access to adjoining properties shall be considered through the design review process.