The “I-1” Light Industrial District is intended for the purpose of allowing certain industrial uses which do not:

1.    Require intensive land coverage.

2.    Generate large volumes of vehicular traffic.

3.    Create obnoxious sounds, glare, dust or odor.

Height, and land coverage are controlled to insure compatibility with a joining uses.

In District “I-1” no structure or land shall be used and no structure altered, enlarged or erected, which is arranged, intended or designed for other than one of the uses listed in the Use Regulations:

1.    Animal hospitals or clinics.

2.    Automobile repair and body shop.

3.    Bottling works.

4.    Building material sales (except for ready-mix concrete and similar uses which emit dust, odor or smoke).

5.    Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing or sheet metal shops, providing the storage yard is completely enclosed with a 6-foot high solid fence, wall or hedge.

6.    Contractor's office and equipment storage yard, providing the storage yard is completely enclosed with a 6-foot high solid fence, wall or hedge.

7.    Dog kennels.

8.    Dry cleaning and/or laundry plants.

9.    Frozen food lockers.

10.  Greenhouses and nurseries, retail and wholesale.

11.  Light manufacturing operations - providing that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration or noise beyond the confines of the building or emission of dust, fumes, gas, odor or smoke.

12.  Machinery sales, service repairs, painting, and storage.

13.  Monument sales and manufacture.

14.  Motor vehicle sales, services, repairs and painting.

15.  Public utility and public service uses as follows:

a.     Substations.

b.    Railroads.

c.     Telephone exchange, micro-wave towers, radio towers, television towers, telephone transmission buildings, electric power plants.

d.    Public utility storage yards when the entire storage area is enclosed by at least a 6-foot high wall or fence.

16.  Restaurants (not including drive-ins).

17.  Service stations.

18.  Sign printing and manufacturing.

19.  Truck and rail terminals.

20.  Upholstery shops.

21.  Warehouses.

22.  Wholesale merchandise sales and storage.

A building structure or use, allowed in this district, may occupy all the portion of the lot except for that area required for off-street parking and off-street loading and unloading and their access roads and except as provided in Yard Regulations.

1.    When a building or structure is within 150 feet of a residential 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 residential district zone, said building structure shall not exceed 75 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 street, 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 5 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 landscape 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-1” District.

(See the Article on Parking and Loading

(See the Article on Parking and Loading Regulations.)

(See the Article on Sign Regulations.)