1.

Purpose. The I-1 limited industrial district is established to provide areas for industrial concerns whose operations are of a high performance standard; to ensure that operations will be conducted without substantial annoyance or inconvenience to the owners of surrounding property or the users of surrounding highways or streets, and the prevention of adverse effects upon surrounding public or private property.

2.

Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted:

Retail and Service Uses

Agricultural implement sales and service;

Animal pounds, shelters and kennels;

Beverages—bottling and distribution;

Building material sales;

Contractor or construction storage yard or buildings;

Garages and parking lots, other than accessory—and subject to the provisions of article XII;

Greenhouses;

Motorized vehicle service stations;

Plating shops;

Trade schools;

Wholesale business, when completely operated within an enclosed building;

Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products—such as those listed below and other similar uses. All laws, rules and regulations of any local, county, state or federal governmental organization must be strictly adhered to as to the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration and the like;

Advertising displays;

Agricultural buildings and structures;

Automobile laundries;

Automobile and truck repair, including body repair and repainting;

Bakeries;

Blacksmith shops;

Books—hand binding and tooling;

Bottling works—nonalcoholic;

Brushes and brooms;

Building equipment, building materials, lumber and yards for contracting equipment of public agencies or public utilities or materials or equipment of similar nature;

Cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies;

Canning and preserving;

Canvas and canvas products;

Carpet and rug cleaning;

Ceramic products—such a pottery and small glazed tile;

Cleaning and dyeing establishment;

Cosmetics and toiletries;

Creameries and dairies;

Dentures;

Drugs;

Electrical appliances, such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters and electrical toys;

Electrical equipment assembly, such as home radio and television receivers and home movie equipment, but not including electrical machinery;

Electric supplies, manufacturing and assembly of—such as wire and cable assembly, switches, lamps, insulation and dry cell batteries;

Food products, processing and combining of baking, boiling, canning, cooking, dehydrating, freezing, frying, grinding, mixing, and pressing, but not including slaughterhouses;

Garment manufacturing;

Glass products, from previously manufactured glass;

Hair, felt and feather products, (except washing, curing and dyeing);

Ice, dry and natural;

Ink mixing and packaging of inked ribbons;

Jewelry;

Laboratories—medical, dental, research, experimental and testing—provided there is no danger from fire or explosion or offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat, glare or other objectionable influence;

Laundries;

Leather products and similar manmade products;

Luggage;

Machine shops for tool, die and pattern making;

Metal stamping and extrusion of small products, such as costume jewelry, pins and needles, razor blades, bottle caps, buttons and kitchen utensils;

Mobile homes;

Musical instruments;

Orthopedic and medical appliances (sic), such as artificial limbs, braces, supports, and stretchers;

Packing and crating;

Paper products, small, such as envelopes and stationery, bags, boxes, tubes and wallpaper printing;

Perfumes and cosmetics;

Pharmaceutical products, compounding only;

Plastic products, but not including the processing of raw materials;

Precision instruments—such as optical, medical and drafting;

Products from finished materials—plastic, bone, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, precious and semiprecious stones, rubber, shell or yarn;

Printing and newspaper publishing, including engraving and photo engraving;

Repair of household or office machinery or equipment;

Rubber products, small and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing) such as washers, gloves, footwear, bathing caps and atomizers;

Soap and detergents;

Soldering and welding;

Sporting and athletic equipment, such as balls, baskets, cues, gloves, bats, rackets and rods;

Statuary, mannequins, figurines and religious and church art goods, excluding foundry operations;

Storage of household goods;

Tinsmiths;

Textiles—spinning, weaving, manufacturing, dyeing, printing, knit goods, yarn, thread and cordage, but not including textile bleaching;

Tobacco curing and manufacturing and tobacco products

Tools and hardware—such as bolts, nuts, and screws, doorknobs, drills, hand tools, and cutlery, hinges, house hardware, locks, nonferrous metal castings and plumbing appliances;

Toys;

Truck, tractor, trailer or bus garage including a motor freight terminal;

Umbrellas;

Upholstering (bulk) including mattress manufacturing, rebuilding and renovating;

Vehicles, children's—such as bicycles, scooters, wagons and baby carriages;

Watches;

Wood products, such as furniture, boxes, crates, baskets and pencils and cooperate works;

Public and Community Service Uses

Bus terminals, bus turnarounds, bus garages, bus lots;

Electric substations;

Fire stations;

Municipal or privately owned recreation buildings or community centers;

Police stations;

Telephone exchanges;

Water filtration plants;

Water pumping stations;

Residential Uses

Dwelling units for watchmen and their families when located on the premises where they are employed in such capacity.

Miscellaneous Uses

Accessory uses customarily incidental to the permitted principal use;

Signs, as permitted and regulated in article XI.

3.

Special uses. The following uses may be allowed by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of article XVII:

Filling of holes, pits or lowlands with soil free from refuse and food wastes;

Mining, loading and hauling of sand, gravel, topsoil or other aggregate or minerals, including equipment, buildings or structures for screening, crushing, mixing, washing or storage provided that:

a)

No open pit or shaft is less than 100 feet from any public road;

b)

All buildings or structures for the screening, crushing, washing, mixing or storage are located not less than 150 feet from any property line;

c)

The borders of the property adjacent to any district other than an industrial district, are fenced with a solid fence or wall at least six feet in height.

d)

A plan of development of the reclamation of the land is provided as part of the application for special use. The plan of development shall be accompanied by a written agreement between the owner or his agent and the City of Watervliet and a performance bond in an amount equal to the cost of the reclamation of the land as set forth in the development plan.

Radio and television towers;

Sewage treatment plants;

Theaters, outdoor drive-in;

Trailer sales or rental (including mobile homes and cap trailers) business not including occupancy of trailers except by a watchman when located on the premises.

4.

Off-street parking and loading. [Off-street parking and loading] shall be as permitted or required in article XII.

5.

Conditions of use. All permitted uses are subject to the following conditions:

a)

All local, county, state and federal laws, rules and regulations must be strictly adhered to as to the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration and the like.

b)

All business, production, servicing, processing shall take place within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise specified. Within 150 feet of a residence district all storage shall be in completely enclosed buildings or structures, and storage located elsewhere in this district may be open to the sky but shall be enclosed by solid walls or fences (including solid doors or gates thereto) at least six feet high, and suitably landscaped. However, open off-street loading facilities and open off-street parking of motor vehicles may be unenclosed throughout the district, except for such screening of parking and loading facilities as may be required under the provisions of article XII.

6.

Yard areas. No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such building:

a)

Front yard. On every zoning lot a front yard of not less than 50 feet in depth shall be provided. However, where lots within the same block and comprising 40 percent of the frontage on the same street are already developed on the effective date of the ordinance with front yards with an average depth shall be the required front yard depth for such frontage in said block. No industrial building or a position thereof or any accessory building in connection therewith, shall be hereafter erected in front of a building or setback line.

b)

Side yards. A side yard 25 feet deep is required except on the side of the lot adjoining a residence district, in which case there shall be a side yard of not less than 40 feet.

c)

Rear yard. On every zoning lot there shall be a rear yard of not less than 30 feet, except where a use in the I-1 limited industrial district is adjacent to a residence district, a rear yard shall be provided and maintained of not less than 50 feet.

7.

Maximum lot coverage. No building with its accessory building and accessory uses including parking facilities, driveways and roadways outside storage areas, railroad sidings, outside truck berths and other accessory uses, shall occupy in excess of 75 percent of any lot or tract.

1.

Purpose. The I-2 general industrial district is established to provide areas in which a wide variety of intensive industrial concerns may be located; to provide performance standards that will adequately protect the community; to provide regulations to ensure adequate open space between uses, and between the boundaries of the I-2 general industrial district and other established uses.

2.

Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted:

Any use permitted in the I-1 limited industrial district.

Production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing and repair, including the following uses and manufacturing of the following products:

Bottled gas;

Electric central station, power and steam generating plants;

Fertilizers;

Film, photographic;

Flour, feed and grain—milling and processing;

Furniture—metal, wood and plastic;

Glass products;

Metal finishing, plating, grinding, sharpening, polishing, cleaning, rustproofing and heat treatment;

Planing mills;

Plastic products;

Public utility, electric substations and distribution centers, gas regulation centers and underground gas holder stations;

Rubber (synthetic or natural);

Stamping and fabrication;

Storage of flammable liquids, fats or oil, but only after the location and protective measures have been approved by local governing officials;

Storage—goods used in or produced by manufacturing activities permitted in this district.

3.

Special uses. The following uses may be allowed by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of article XVII:

Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the I-1 limited industrial district unless already permitted in this district;

Cemeteries;

Manure, peat and topsoil;

Petroleum and petroleum products;

Sanitary landfills.

4.

Off-street parking and loading. [Off-street parking and loading] shall be as permitted or required in article XII.

5.

Conditions of use. Permitted uses are subject to the following conditions:

a)

All local, county, state and federal laws, rules and regulations must be strictly adhered to as to the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration and the like.

b)

Within 100 feet of a residence district, production, processing, servicing and fabrication shall take place or be within completely enclosed buildings or structures unless otherwise specified. All exterior storage within 150 feet of a residence district shall be enclosed with a solid wall or fence to a height of such stored materials. Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities may be unenclosed except for such screening and improvements as may be required under the provisions of article XII.

6.

Yard areas. All yard areas shall be the same as required in the I-1 limited industrial district.