Tremont City Zoning Code
I-1 LIGHT
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
§ 153.160 INTENT.
(A) The I-1 Light Industrial District is designed to primarily accommodate wholesale activities, warehouses and industrial operations whose external, physical effects are restricted to the area of the District and in no manner, affect in a detrimental way, any of the surrounding districts. The I-1 District is so structured as to permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material.
(B) The general goals of this use district include, among other, the following specific purposes:
(1) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the village’s expected future economy for all types of manufacturing and related uses;
(2) To protect abutting residential districts by separating them from manufacturing activities, and by prohibiting the use of such industrial areas for new residential development;
(3) To promote manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiations and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odor and other objectionable influences; and
(4) To protect the most desirable use of land in accordance with a well-considered plan, to protect the character and established pattern of adjacent development, and in each area to conserve the value of land and buildings and other structures, and to protect the village’s tax revenue.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)
§ 153.161 PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED.
In the Light Industrial District, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:
(A) Any use charged with the principal function of basic research, design and pilot or experimental product development when conducted within a completely enclosed building;
(B) Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building:
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments and trucking facilities;
(2) The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as, but not limited to, bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, food products, hardware and cutlery, tool, die, gauge and machine shops;
(3) The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, elastomers, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, rubber, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, sheet metal, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wire, wood and yarns;
(4) The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(5) The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal or rubber stamps or other molded rubber products;
(6) The manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs;
(7) Laboratories (experimental, film or testing);
(8) Manufacturing and repair of electric or neon signs, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment, cornices, eaves and the like;
(9) Central dry-cleaning plants or laundries provided that such plants shall not deal directly with consumers at retail; and
(10) All public utilities, including buildings, accessary structures, storage yards and other related uses.
(C) Warehouse, storage and transfer and electric and gas service buildings and yards. Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electrical transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations, water supply and sewage disposal plants, water and gas tank holders and freight terminals;
(D) (1) Manufacture of building products, storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, storage of contractor’s equipment and supplies; provided, such is enclosed within a building or within an obscuring wall or fence on those sides abutting all residential or business districts, and on any yard abutting a public thoroughfare;
(2) In any I-1 district, the extent of such fence or wall may be determined by the Zoning Board based on usage. Such fence or wall shall not be less than five feet in height, and may, depending on land usage, be required to be eight feet in height. A chain link type fence, with heavy evergreen shrubbery inside of said fence, is considered to be an obscuring fence;
(E) Municipal uses such as water treatment plants, and reservoirs, sewage treatment plants and all other municipal buildings and uses, including outdoor storage;
(F) Commercial kennels;
(G) Greenhouses;
(H) Trade or industrial schools;
(I) Freestanding non-accessory signs; and
(J) Other uses of a similar and no more objectionable character to the above uses.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 153.162 SPECIAL USES.
The following uses may be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to the review and approval of the site plan and the use by the Village Board after a hearing and recommendation is received from the Zoning Board for each use:
(A) Auto, engine and body repair, and under-coating shops when completely enclosed;
(B) Lumber and planing mills when completely enclosed and when located in the interior of the district so that no property line shall form the exterior boundary of the l-1 District;
(C) Metal plating, buffing and polishing, subject to appropriate measures to control the type of process to prevent noxious results and/or nuisances;
(D) Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities (such as, but not limited to, lumber yards, building materials outlets or agricultural implements) or serve convenience needs of the Industrial District (such as, but not limited to, eating and drinking establishments, banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, automobile service stations, motels or bowling alleys, trade or industrial schools or industrial clinics);
(E) Short-term car storage for wrecked auto-mobiles where such storage is for periods not to exceed six months and when no such storage is undertaken for the wrecking or salvaging of auto- mobiles or parts thereof, all such storage shall be completely fenced and shall be obscured from public view by a completely obscuring wall or fence;
(F) Other uses of a similar character to the above uses; and
(G) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident or any of the above uses.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)
§ 153.163 SIZE AND DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS.
The following table provides minimum criteria for the issuance of building permits within the Light Industrial zoning districts of the village.
Criteria | Light Industrial District | ||
I-1 | |||
Value | Notes | ||
Criteria | Light Industrial District | ||
I-1 | |||
Value | Notes | ||
Lot size (square feet) | |||
Maximum floor area ratio | |||
Maximum height of structure | |||
Height above grade (feet) | |||
Stories above grade | |||
Maximum percent of lot coverage | |||
Minimum width (feet) | |||
Minimum yard setback | |||
Front yard | 25 | ||
Rear | 10 | c | |
Side yard - at least one | 0, 10 or 15 | a, b | |
Side yard - total of both | 0 to 30 | a, b | |
Parking spaces per 250 square feet of floor space | d | ||
(A) Buildings with doors facing side yards shall provide a side yard setback not less than 15 feet.
(B) Side yards are not required along the interior lot lines of Central Business and General Business subdivisions. The exterior side bordering a residential district or public street shall maintain a side yard not less than ten feet.
(C) One-half the width of alleys at the rear of the lot may be considered in computing rear yard setbacks.
(D) Parking is permitted in the front yard pending approval by the Zoning Board of the parking plan layout and points of access. The Zoning Board may request recommendations from the Village Engineer pertaining to parking and access prior to approval.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 153.164 BUILDING LIMITATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS.
Development and re-development of industrial properties bordering any non-industrial zoned properties, Park District property, and on any front yard abutting a public thoroughfare shall provide an obscuring wall constructed along property lines. Such a wall shall not be less than 72 inches in height and may, depending upon land usage, be required to be 96 inches in height, and shall be in accordance with § 153.204. In lieu of a 72-inch high wall, a 72-inch tall chain link fence and a 20-foot wide greenbelt may be provided. In lieu of a 96-inch high wall, a 72-inch tall chain link fence and a 40-foot wide greenbelt may be provided. The heavily planted greenbelt shall be in accordance with § 153.199.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99