The I General Industrial District is intended to accommodate industrial activities which are general industrial uses.

No building, structure, or parcel of land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or enlarged which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the following uses:

1.

Abrasive manufacture.

2.

Bakeries.

3.

Banks and financial institutions.

4.

Boot and shoe manufacture.

5.

Bottling companies.

6.

Brick and structural clay products manufacture.

7.

Building materials and products sales and storage.

8.

Business, professional, medical and dental offices.

9.

Cartage and express facilities.

10.

Chemical mixing, blending and storage facilities.

11.

Civic buildings.

12.

Concrete products manufacture.

13.

Contractor and construction offices, shops, and storage yards.

14.

Dairy products processing.

15.

Dry cleaning establishments and laundries employing more than ten (10) persons.

16.

Electronic and scientific precision instruments manufacture.

17.

Electroplating.

18.

Feed mills.

19.

Food manufacture, packaging, and processing.

20.

Foundries and forge plants.

21.

Freight terminals, motor, and railroad.

22.

Fuel and ice sales.

23.

Furniture, bedding, and carpet manufacture.

24.

General manufacturing.

25.

Glass products production and sales.

26.

Grain storage and processing.

27.

Heavy machinery production.

28.

Light machinery production.

29.

Lithographing.

30.

Machine shop.

31.

Meat Packing, not including slaughter houses.

32.

Metal reduction and refinement.

33.

Metal stamping.

34.

Municipal facilities, including sewage disposal plants, garages and storage facilities, wells, water towers and offices.

36.

Paper products manufacture.

37.

Parking lots and garages, principal.

38.

Plastics processing.

39.

Pottery and ceramics manufacture.

40.

Printing and publishing establishments.

41.

Radio and television stations, studios and transmitting facilities.

42.

Rubber processing manufacture.

43.

Schools - vocational or trade.

44.

Steel manufacture.

45.

Stone products manufacture.

46.

Warehouses, storage, and distribution facilities.

47.

Wearing apparel manufacture.

49.

Woodworking.

50.

Other uses which are of the same general character as the other permitted uses as determined by the City Zoning Administrator.

The following special uses may be permitted in specific situations as appropriate:

1.

Asphalt products manufacture.

2.

Automobile service stations, repair facilities, and car washes used in conjunction with an automobile service station.

3.

Boiler and tank manufacturing.

4.

Bulk storage and processing of petroleum products.

5.

Eating and drinking establishments.

6.

Garages for storage, repair, and servicing of motor vehicles, including body repair, painting and engine rebuilding.

7.

Heliports.

8.

Junk yards, automobile graveyards, and salvage.

9.

Petroleum refining.

10.

Planned unit developments.

11.

Public and private utility facilities.

12.

Recreation and social facilities.

13.

Stadiums.

1.

All outside storage areas of goods, materials, products, and trash containers shall be enclosed with fences or landscaping of at least seventy-five percent (75%) opacity. Lighting of the facility shall be directed away from surrounding properties.

2.

Where the I District abuts or is across an existing or proposed right-of-way from property located in a residence district, screening by fences or landscaping of at least seventy-five percent (75%) opacity shall be provided.

The minimum area in the I General District shall be one (1) acre. The minimum lot area requirement shall be one (1) acre.

The minimum lot width, at the front yard line, in the I District shall be one hundred feet (100').

The minimum setbacks required in the I District shall be as follows:

1.

General yard requirements (structures under thirty feet (30') in height).

*A setback from all residential districts, of sixty feet (60') shall be maintained. A minimum of thirty feet (30') of landscaped area shall be provided along such District boundary or property line separating the specified Districts. The required landscaped area shall be grass covered and densely planted with shrubs and trees to buffer adjacent residential land uses to provide a year-round visual screen in accordance with the Site Plan Review Ordinance. A fence shall be required in cases where the City Council finds landscaping alone is insufficient to protect the health, safety and welfare of adjacent land owners or occupants. Designated parking areas shall be prohibited within the buffer area.

2.

Special yard requirements (structures over thirty (30) feet in height).

The yard requirements stated in Subsection 1. of this Section shall be increased by one foot (1') for each three feet (3') in height that any building or structure on the lots exceeds a height of thirty feet (30'), and except that requirement for interior side yards adjacent to a railroad right-of-way shall be exempt from this special setback requirement.

The maximum floor area ratio for all buildings and structures in the I District shall be .30.