The “I-2” Heavy Industrial District is intended for the purpose of allowing basic or primary industries which are generally not compatible with residential and/or commercial activity. Certain extremely obnoxious or hazardous uses will require special permission to locate in this district.
In District “I-2 “, no structure or land shall be used and no structure shall be erected, altered or enlarged, which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the uses listed in the Use Regulations below:
1. Animal hospital or clinics.
2. Bottling works.
3. Blacksmith shop.
4. Building materials, storage and sales.
5. Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing and sheet metal shop.
6. Contractor's office and equipment storage yard.
7. Dog kennels.
8. Dry cleaning and laundry plants.
9. Feed and seed stores.
10. Frozen food lockers.
11. Grain elevators.
12. Greenhouse and nurseries, retail and wholesale.
13. Lumber yards.
14. Machinery sales and storage lots.
15. Any enterprise similar to the listed uses and any manufacturing or fabrication establishments, which are not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration, noise, dust, fumes, gas, odor or smoke.
16. Motor vehicle sales and storage.
17. Poultry storage or slaughtering.
18. Public utility and public service uses.
19. Radiator repair shops.
20. Restaurants.
21. Sanitary land fill (governmental).
22. Truck and rail terminals.
23. Upholstering shops.
24. Warehouses or storage houses.
25. Wholesale houses.
26. The Board of Zoning Appeals may, by special use permit, authorize the following exceptions subject to such conditions as the Board deems necessary to include, but not restricted to, proper setbacks, landscaping, screening, fencing, maintenance provisions and other similar requirements:
a. Auto wrecking yards, junk yards, salvage yards and scrap processing yards subject, however, to the following:
(1) Located on a tract of land at least 300 feet from a residential district zone.
(2) The operation shall be conducted wholly within a non-combustible building or within an area completely surrounded on all sides by a fence or wall at least 8 feet high. The fence or wall shall be of uniform height, uniform texture and color and shall be so maintained by the proprietor as to insure maximum safety to the public, obscure the junk from normal view of the public, and preserve the general welfare of the neighborhood. The fence or wall shall be installed in such a manner as to retain all scrap, junk or other material within the yard.
(3) No junk shall be loaded, unloaded or otherwise placed either temporarily or permanently outside the enclosed building, fence, or wall, or within the public right-of-way.
(4) Burning of paper, trash, junk or other waste materials shall be permitted only after approval of the Fire Department. Said burning, when permitted, shall be done only during daylight hours.
(5) No junk, salvage, scrap or other materials shall be piled or stacked higher than the top of the required fence of wall.
(6) Said use shall not be located on or visible from an arterial or major street or highway. 12. Petroleum refining and fuel storage.
c. Stockyard and slaughter houses.
d. Ready-mix concrete and asphalt-mix plants.
e. Manufacturing or storage of bulk oil, gas and explosives.
f. Other uses which may be noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor , dust, smoke, gas, noise or vibration.
1. A building, structure or use, allowed in this district may occupy all that portion of a lot except for the area required for off-street parking, off-street loading and unloading and their access roads and as otherwise required in Supplementary District Regulations and Yard Regulations.
2. In the case where the required off-street parking and/or loading and unloading will be provided within the building or structure, then the building or structure may cover the entire lot except as otherwise required in Yard Regulations.
1. When a building or structure is within 150 feet of a dwelling district zone, said building or structure shall not exceed 45 feet in height.
2. When a building or structure is more than 150 feet from a dwelling district zone, said building or structure shall not exceed 150 feet in height.
1. Front Yards:
a. No front yard setback is required for existing uses. New structures shall provide a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet measured from the front property line except if located on a collector street, the front yard shall be 65 feet measured from the centerline of the street and if located on an arterial, the front yard shall be 75 feet measured from the centerline of the street.
b. Where a lot or lots have double frontage, the required front yard shall be provided on both streets.
c. Where a lot is located at the intersection of 2 or more streets, there shall be a front yard on each street side of the corner lot except the buildable width of such lot shall not be reduced to less than 28 feet except where necessary to provide a yard on the side street not less than 5 feet in width.
d. No accessory building shall project beyond the front yard line on either street.
2. Side Yards: There shall be a side yard on each side of a building and said side yard shall not be less than S feet.
3. Rear Yards: There shall be a rear yard for buildings in this district which rear yard shall have a depth of not less than 25 feet or 20 percent of the depth of the lot, whichever is the smaller.
4. Landscaping and Screening: A solid or semi-solid fence or wall at least 6 feet, but not more than 8 feet high, shall be provided adjacent to any adjoining residential district; however, in the event the adjacent residential district and the industrial development are separated by a public right-of-way, a 10-foot landscaped buffer which shall consist of trees, shrubs and evergreens shall be provided along the property line and maintained by the owner or owners of this property in the “I-2” District.
(See the Article on Parking and Loading
(See the Article on Parking and Loading Regulations.)
(See the Article on Sign Regulations.)