Thornburg City Zoning Code
PART 10
I-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
§ 27-1001 Purpose.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1000]
The purpose of the I-1 Light Industrial District is to accommodate existing and future development of general industrial uses in appropriate locations that are separated from residential and commercial areas and are geographically located near transportation and natural resources.
§ 27-1002 Authorized Uses.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1001]
1.
In the I-1 Light Industrial District only the following uses are authorized:
A.
Permitted Uses.
(1)
Principal Uses.
(a)
Assembly of small electrical appliances and production, including communications equipment; computer components and accessories; electrical parts, accessories and equipment; electronic components, accessories and equipment; search, detection and navigational instruments and equipment; surgical, medical and dental instruments and supplies; laboratory apparatus; photographic equipment and supplies.
(b)
Automotive service station.
(c)
Battery manufacturer; tire re-capping or re-treading, provided they are located within a completely enclosed building.
(d)
Boat building, pleasure craft only.
(e)
Building materials sales establishment, in a completely enclosed building.
(f)
Business or professional offices.
(g)
Business services.
(h)
Car wash.
(i)
Commercial school.
(j)
Contractor's establishment, including storage of equipment.
(k)
Distribution plant, including parcel delivery, ice and cold storage plant, bottling plant and food commissary or catering establishment.
(l)
Kennel.
(m)
Laboratory-experimental, photo, or motion picture, film or testing.
(n)
Landscaping contractor.
(o)
Machinery, sales and display, in an enclosed building.
(p)
Manufacturing, fabricating, compounding, assembling or treatment (not employing a boiling process) of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials; bone; canvas; cellophane; clay; cloth; cork; feathers; felt; fiber; fur; glass; hair; horn; leather; paint; paper; rubber; plastics; precious or semiprecious metals or stones; shell; straw; textiles; tobacco; wood (but not including, heavy wood-working shop); and yarns.
(q)
Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay.
(r)
Manufacture, fabrication and maintenance of electric and neon signs, billboards, commercial advertising structures, metal products of a light nature including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment - cornices, eaves, and the like and also including plumbing, heating or electrical contracting business.
(s)
Manufacture of musical and small precision instruments, watches and clocks, toys, novelties, rubber and metal hand stamps.
(t)
Manufacture, processing, canning, packaging or treatment of such products as beverages, cosmetics, drugs, perfumed toilet soap, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, and food products not including fish smoking, curing, or canning, rendering of fats or oils, or the slaughter of animals.
(u)
Mini-warehouse.
(v)
Printing, lithographing, type composition, ruling and binding establishment.
(w)
Recreation (public, private or commercial).
(x)
Research laboratory.
(y)
Robotics.
(z)
Storage, excluding the following:
1)
Celluloid.
2)
Coal and coke.
3)
Garbage, offal, dead animals or refuse.
4)
Gas (in its various forms except propane) in excess of 10,000 cubic feet.
5)
Gasoline in excess of an amount necessary for use on the premises or to supply retail trade at service stations.
6)
Gun powder, fireworks or other explosives.
7)
Junk, scrap, metal, paper, rags or used tires.
8)
Petroleum and petroleum by-products in excess of an amount necessary for use on the premises.
9)
Raw hides or skins.
10)
Terminal warehousing or transfer depot.
11)
Unscreened outside storage.
(aa)
Vehicle rental; vehicle sales.
(bb)
Wholesale business; warehousing and distribution.
(2)
Accessory Uses.
(a)
Signs, subject to Part 12.
(b)
Off-street parking areas (public or private) and off-street loading, subject to Part 11.
(c)
Accessory uses customarily incidental to and on the same lot with any permitted use, conditional use or use by special exception authorized in this Zoning District.
(d)
Cafeteria; employee dining room.
(e)
Fences, subject to § 27-1404C.
C.
Uses by Special Exception.
(1)
Principal Uses.
(a)
Billboard, subject to § 27-1304A.
(b)
Expansion of a nonconforming use, subject to § 27-1304G and § 27-1602D.
(c)
Temporary use or structure, other than a construction trailer, subject to § 27-1304M.
(d)
Comparable uses not specifically listed, subject to § 27-1304F.
(e)
Sexually oriented businesses, subject to § 27-1304L.
§ 27-1003 Area and Bulk Regulations.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1002]
1.
In the I-1 Light 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 Part 13:
§ 27-1004 Engineering Report.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1003]
See § 27-1411.
§ 27-1005 Parking and Loading.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1004]
See Part 11.
§ 27-1006 Performance Standards.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1005]
See § 27-1402.
§ 27-1007 Signs.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1006]
See Part 12.
§ 27-1008 Screening and Landscaping.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1007]
See § 27-1403.
§ 27-1009 Storage.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1008]
See § 27-1409.
§ 27-1010 Land Development Plan Approval.
[Ord. 378, 2/14/2005, § 1009]
See § 27-1410.