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South Fayette Township
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XII

I-1 General Industrial District

§ 240-70 Purpose.

The purpose of this District is to provide for heavier industrial uses in existing locations and to encourage the redevelopment of older industrial sites to campus-style development of research and industrial uses in appropriate locations in the Township, consistent with sound planning and environmental controls.

§ 240-71 Authorized uses.

In the I-1 General Industrial District, only the following uses are authorized:
A. 
Permitted uses.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Bakery, pizza, ice cream or candy shop, including on-site processing.
(b) 
Business or professional offices.
(c) 
Cleaning and dyeing plant.
(d) 
Contracting business.
(e) 
Contractor's yard.
(f) 
Equipment storage yard, subject to § 240-104.
(g) 
Essential services.
(h) 
Food and related products, packaging, storage and distribution.
(i) 
Forestry, subject to § 240-105.
(j) 
Garden nursery.
(k) 
High technology industries.
(l) 
Incidental mineral removal.
(m) 
Light manufacturing, provided all storage and operations are within a completely enclosed building.
(n) 
Mini-warehouse or self-storage facilities.
(o) 
Noncommercial recreation.
(p) 
Packaging, storage and distribution.
(q) 
Printing establishment.
(r) 
Public recreation, other than Township-related facilities.
(s) 
Public utility building or structure.
(t) 
Repair shop.
(u) 
Research and development, including pilot manufacturing.
(v) 
Supply yard.
(w) 
Township-related facilities.
(x) 
Truck and heavy equipment rental, sales and service.
(y) 
Truck terminal.
(z) 
Vehicle rental, sales and service.
(aa) 
Vehicle repair garage.
(bb) 
Warehousing and distribution.
(cc) 
Water towers and water storage facilities.
(dd) 
Wholesale business.
(2) 
Accessory uses.
(a) 
Signs, subject to Article XVIII.
(b) 
Off-street parking and loading, subject to Article XVII.
(c) 
Fences, subject to § 240-99.
(d) 
Other accessory uses customarily incidental to and on the same lot with any permitted use, conditional use or use by special exception authorized in this District.
(e) 
Retail sales of products produced on site.
(f) 
No-impact home-based business or home occupation in a dwelling which is a nonconforming use.
B. 
Conditional uses.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Adult business, subject to § 240-95A(1).
(b) 
Commercial recreation, subject to § 240-95A(10).
(c) 
Communications tower, subject to § 240-95A(11).
(d) 
Correctional institution, subject to § 240-95A(14).
(e) 
Firehouses, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(f) 
Golf course; golf or country club, subject to § 240-95A(19).
(g) 
Juvenile incarceration facility, subject to § 240-95A(23).
(h) 
Juvenile residential facility, subject to § 240-95A(22).
(i) 
Landfill, subject to § 240-95A(26).
(j) 
Public buildings, other than Township-related facilities, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(k) 
Planned economic development, including all uses authorized in the PED District, subject to all applicable requirements of Article X.
(l) 
Oil and gas development, subject to § 240-95A(54).
[Added 11-15-2010 by Ord. No. 5-2010; amended 7-20-2011 by Ord. No. 3-2011]
(m) 
Natural gas compressor station and natural gas processing plant, subject to § 240-95A(55).
[Added 11-15-2010 by Ord. No. 5-2010; amended 7-20-2011 by Ord. No. 3-2011]
(n) 
Distribution/processing facility, subject to § 240-95A(55).
[Added 7-18-2011 by Ord. No. 4-2011]
(o) 
Medical marijuana grower/processor, subject to certain conditions set forth in § 240-95A.
[Added 11-14-2020 by Ord. No. 10-2020]
(2) 
Accessory uses.
(a) 
Communications antenna mounted on an existing building or on an existing public utility storage or transmission structure, subject to § 240-95A(12).
(b) 
Temporary construction trailer or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(49).
(c) 
Impoundments, subject to § 240-95A(56).
[Added 7-8-2015 by Ord. No. 1-2015; amended 7-13-2016 by Ord. No. 6-2016]
C. 
Uses by special exception.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Car wash, subject to § 240-95A(7).
(b) 
Junk yard, subject to § 240-95A(24).
(c) 
Mobile home sales, service and storage, subject to § 240-95A(31).
(d) 
Temporary use or structure, other than a construction trailer or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(42).
(e) 
Comparable uses not specifically listed, subject to § 240-95A(13).
(2) 
Accessory uses. None.

§ 240-72 Area and bulk regulations.

In the I-1 General Industrial District, all uses shall be subject to the following regulations, except as they may be modified by the express standards and criteria for the specific conditional uses and uses by special exception contained in Article XV.
A. 
Minimum lot area: 40,000 square feet.
B. 
Minimum lot width: 150 feet.
C. 
Maximum impervious surface coverage: 65%.
D. 
Minimum front yard: 50 feet.
E. 
Minimum rear yard.
(1) 
Principal structures of three stories or less.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 30 feet.
(2) 
Principal structures exceeding three stories.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 30 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(3) 
Accessory structures: 30 feet.
F. 
Minimum side yard.
(1) 
Principal structures of three stories or less.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 20 feet.
(2) 
Principal structures exceeding three stories.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 20 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(3) 
Accessory structures: 20 feet.
G. 
Special yard requirements: see § 240-99.
H. 
Permitted projections into required yards: see § 240-100.
I. 
Maximum height.
(1) 
All principal structures: six stories but no more than 60 feet.
(2) 
All accessory structures: one story but no more than 20 feet.
J. 
Height exceptions: see § 240-101.

§ 240-73 Parking and loading.

See Article XVII.

§ 240-74 Signs.

See Article XVIII.

§ 240-75 Buffer areas and landscaping.

See § 240-98.

§ 240-76 Storage.

See § 240-104.