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Valley View City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1254

Industrial Districts

1254.01 APPLICATION.

   The regulations provided in this chapter shall apply to all Industrial Districts, subject, however to such other provisions of this Zoning Code as are applicable.
(Ord. 53-5-1. Passed 6-2-53.)

1254.02 PERMITTED USES.

   (a)   Within any Industrial District no building, structure of land shall be used, erected, arranged or designed to be used, in whole or in part, for any of the following specified uses.
   All uses not prohibited herein are permitted. All applications for building permits in Industrial Districts shall be approved by the Planning Commission.
      (1)   The uses permitted in Country Home Districts under the provisions of Chapter 1248;
      (2)   Trailer parking;
      (3)   Trailer camps;
      (4)   Tourist houses;
      (5)   Hotels;
      (6)   Truck terminals;
      (7)   Boarding or lodging houses and any boarding houses for animals, or animal kennels;
      (8)   Tents;
      (9)   ( Editor's note: Paragraph (9) was repealed by Ordinance 87-12-5, passed January 6, 1988.)
      (10)   Abattoir or slaughterhouses and stockyards;
      (11)   Fertilizer manufacture;
      (12)   Glue, size and gelatine manufacture or any process involving recovery from fish or animal offal;
      (13)   Fish smoking or curing;
      (14)   Hair manufacture;
      (15)   The inceration, reduction, burying or otherwise disposing of garbage, offal, dead animals, refuse and other similar materials, except when conducted or provided by the Village;
      (16)   Soap manufacture;
      (17)   Stock food manufacture from refuse;
      (18)   Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining;
      (19)   Sewage disposal plants, except for purposes of the Village area;
      (20)   The distillation of bones, coal or wood;
      (21)   Shoddy manufacture or wool scouring;
      (22)   Cremation, except in a cemetery;
      (23)   Rawhides or skin storage, curing or tanning;
      (24)   Junk, scrap paper or rag storage or baling;
      (25)   Steel manufacture by Bessemer or open hearth processes;
      (26)   Asphalt or tar manufacture or refining, or the mixing of such materials for street paving purposes;
      (27)   Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture;
      (28)   Rayon manufacture;
      (29)   Petroleum refining;
      (30)   Rubber manufacture by the reclaiming process;
      (31)   Paper and pulp manufacture by the sulphide process emitting noxious vapors and fumes;
      (32)   Sulphurous, sulphuric, picric, nitric or hydrochloric acid manufacture or their use or storage, except as an accessory to a permitted industry in conformity with the best modern practice for the prevention of fumes, smoke, odors and vapors;
      (33)   Carbon, lampblack or graphite manufacture;
      (34)   Creosote manufacture;
      (35)   Creosote treatment;
      (36)   Lime, cement, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture;
      (37)   Coal tar manufacture, tar distillation or mineral dye manufacture, except as an accessory to a permitted industry in conformity with the best modern practice for the prevention of fumes, smoke, odors and vapors;
      (38)   Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacture;
      (39)   Explosive or fireworks manufacture;
      (40)   Bronze powder manufacture;
      (41)   Coal gas manufacture;
      (42)   Explosive or flammable celluloid or pyroxylin products manufacture;
      (43)   Match manufacture;
      (44)   Nitrating processes;
      (45)   The sale of any automobiles; and
      (46)   Any other trade, industry or use that will be injurious, hazardous, noxious or offensive to an extent equal to or greater than any of the prohibited enterprises enumerated in this section.
   (b)   All of the materials and supplies used, manufactured or stored in any of the above businesses should be stored wholly within a completely enclosed structure approved by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 78-5-2. Passed 5-2-78; Ord. 89-12-5. Passed 2-6-90; Ord. 99-9-7. Passed 11-2-99; Ord. 99-9-8. Passed 11-2-99; Ord. 2000-12-21. Passed 2-6-01.)

1254.03 YARD REGULATIONS.

   (a)   Front Yards. The setback building line shall be at least fifty feet.
   (b)   Side Yards. Any building on a lot in an Industrial District shall have side yards totaling at least fifty feet, with each side yard not less than ten feet. However, where the side of a lot in an Industrial District abuts upon the side of a lot in a Country Home District, there shall be a side yard of not less than 100 feet in width, and where the side or rear of a lot in an Industrial District abuts upon the rear of a lot in a Country Home District, there shall be a yard of not less than fifty feet in width.
   (c)   Rear Yards. A rear yard of not less than twenty feet shall be required, except that where the rear of a lot in an Industrial District abuts upon the side or rear of a lot in a Country Home District, there shall be a rear yard of not less than fifty feet in depth.
(Ord. 77-3-5. Passed 5-17-77.)
   (d)   Off-Street Parking. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsection (d) was repealed by Ordinance 98-3-19, passed April 7, 1998. See Chap. 1270 for general off-street parking provisions.)

1254.04 SANITARY REGULATIONS.

   (a)   Water Supply. No building serving to shelter employees of an industry shall be constructed or occupied unless reasonable provisions are made for a dependable, pure water supply from a drilled well, cistern, spring or public water supply in accordance with the regulations of the County District Board of Health.
   (b)   Sewage Disposal. In the absence of a sanitary sewer, sewage shall be disposed of in such a manner as to prevent nuisance and contamination of the water supply and shall be discharged through a watertight sewer into a septic tank so constructed as to be watertight in accordance with the regulations of the County District Board of Health. Such provision shall be made prior to occupancy of the premises.
(Ord. 53-5-1. Passed 6-2-53.)

1254.05 BUILDING AREA.

   No building or buildings shall occupy in the aggregate more than fifty percent of the area of any lot.
(Ord. 77-3-5. Passed 5-17-77.)

1254.06 SIGN REGULATIONS.

   (a)   In all Industrial Districts all billboards and advertising devices shall be prohibited, except signs advertising premises for sale, lease or rent, upon which premises such sign is located, and signs advertising the business conducted on the premises upon which such sign is placed.
   (b)   All permitted billboards, signs and advertising devices shall be set back at least fifty feet from the front line of the premises, which front line is the right-of-way line of any street, road or drive upon which the premises front.
   (c)   All billboards, signs and advertising devices proposed to be constructed which are to be illuminated or flashing shall be approved, in addition to any other approval required, by the Inspector of Buildings. The Inspector shall make written findings, which shall be contained in his permit to construct or in his denial of a permit to construct, as follows:
      (1)   The proposed construction will not interfere with the safety of vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and
      (2)   The proposed construction will not create an annoying glare to adjacent premises.
(Ord. 61-3-1. Passed 4-25-61.)

1254.07 OFF-STREET LOADING FACILITIES.

   (a)   Loading facilities shall be located on the same lot as the main building or use served and shall be located so that a public street or sidewalk will not be occupied during the loading or unloading process.
   (b)   Off-street loading facilities shall not be permitted in front of the building which faces the frontage street. This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit off-street loading at the side of a building except on a corner lot adjacent to a street.
   (c)   Off-street loading spaces shall be provided with surface improvements as required for parking areas in this Zoning Code.
   (d)   The repairing or servicing of motor vehicles shall not be permitted in a required off-street loading space. Space required and allocated for off-street loading shall not be allocated or used to satisfy the space requirements for required off-street parking.
   (e)   Off-street loading space shall be provided as determined by the Planning Commission. In all cases, off-street loading spaces shall be provided for a building or group of buildings so that the length of the required space is in accordance with the usual size of truck employed for loading or unloading. Each space shall have a vertical clearance of at least fourteen feet. The required areas shall be exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space.
(Ord. 78-5-2. Passed 5-2-78.)