The purpose of this district is to
provide for a wide variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, processing,
wholesale distributing and warehousing uses appropriately located
for access by major thoroughfares or railroads. Commercial uses and
open storage of materials are permitted, but new residential development
is excluded.
A.
A building or land shall be used for the
following purposes, consisting of general light industrial, warehousing
and storage uses, including certain open or enclosed storage of products,
materials and vehicles, and including the following uses and any similar
uses which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration,
dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences than
the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses listed, such
listed uses being generally wholesale establishments, service industries
and light industries that manufacture, process, store and distribute
goods and materials and are, in general, dependent on raw materials
refined elsewhere, and manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging
or treatment, as specified, of the following products or similar products:
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Agricultural, business, commercial
or office uses permitted in any business or commercial district
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Agriculture or farm implements, manufacture,
sale, storage or repair
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Aircraft and aircraft parts
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Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication
and forming
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Animal hospital, or animal pounds
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Animal, poultry and bird raising,
commercial
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Any use permitted in the LI-1 District
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Automobiles, trucks, buses, truck
trailers, motorcycles and bicycles, repair and assembly; transmission
repair service
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Bakery products, wholesale (manufacturing
permitted)
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Bedding (mattress, pillow and quilt)
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Beverage blending and bottling (all
types), but not distilling
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Blacksmith shops, not including gas-
and steam-fitting shops
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Boat manufacture and repair (vessels
less than five tons), boat sales, service, storage or rentals
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Building materials (cement, lime
in bags or containers, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or
reinforcing steel, pipe and the like), storage and sales, open or
enclosed, but not manufacture or steel fabricating or junk storage
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Button manufacture
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Carbon paper and inked ribbon manufacture
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Carpets, rugs and mats, including
cleaning
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Cigar and cigarette manufacture
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Cleaning and dyeing of garments,
hats and rugs
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Coal and coke storage and sales
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Commercial greenhouses, wholesale
or retail, and nurseries for growing of plants, trees and shrubs,
including a building for sale of products produced on the premises
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Condensed and evaporated milk, processing
and canning
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Contractors' shops and storage yards
or equipment rental
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Cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes
(compounding only)
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Dairy operations and dairy products,
ice cream and cheese
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Dwellings for resident watchmen and
caretakers employed on the premises
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Electrical appliances or electronic
apparatus, medical, optical or drafting equipment, toys, games and
musical instruments manufacture or assembly
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Exterminating establishments
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Farms and farming
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Fertilizer storage in bags or bulk
storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed
building, but not manufacture or processing
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Fireplace logs
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Fish, shrimp, crab, clam, oyster
and other seafood processing, packing or storing, except fish curing
or smoking
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Food products manufacture, processing
and packaging of such products as candy, chewing gum, cocoa products,
coffee, tea and spices, macaroni and noodles
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Foundry products manufacture (electrical
only)
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Fruit and vegetable processing (including
canning, preserving, drying and freezing)
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Furniture (wood, reed, rattan, metal
and plastic)
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Grain blending and packaging, but
not milling
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Heating, ventilating, cooling and
refrigeration supplies and appliances
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Ice manufacture, including dry ice
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Industrial vocational training schools,
including internal-combustion engines
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Ink manufacturing (mixing only)
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Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants
and related industrial and household chemical elements (blending only)
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Kennels, boarding or otherwise
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Knitting, weaving, printing, finishing
of textiles and fibers into fabric goods or clothing, hats or hosiery
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Laboratories, research or experimental,
but not including combustion-engine testing
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Laundries and linen service
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Leather goods manufacture, but not
including tanning operations
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Livery stables and riding academies
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Machinery manufacture and machine
shops
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Manufactured home and modular-home
manufacturing
[Amended 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 2152] | |
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Meat products, packing and processing
(not slaughtering)
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Metal products manufacture, such
products as bolts, nails, staples, needles, pins, metal containers,
ornamental iron fabrication, silverware and plated wire
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Oleomargarine (compounding and packing
only)
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Pharmaceutical products and drugs
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Planning and millwork, lumberyard
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Plating, electrolytic process
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Plumbing supplies manufacture, sale
or storage
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Poultry packing and slaughtering
(wholesale)
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Printing, publishing and engraving,
photographic processing or blueprinting
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Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including
paper mache products)
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Radiator repair, cleaning and flushing
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Radio or television broadcasting
stations, studios, offices and towers
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Railroad switching yards, primarily
for railroad service in the district, team tracks and spur tracks
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Research centers
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Rubber and synthetic treated fabrics
(excluding all rubber and synthetic processing)
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Sheet metal products, ductwork and
containers
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Shipping containers (corrugated board,
fiber or wire-bound)
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Sign fabrication and painting shops
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Soap, washing or cleaning, powder
or soda (compounding only)
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Telephone central offices, including
outdoor storage and repair facilities
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Telephone stations or booths, including
drive-in or talking-from-car stations
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Theaters, including open-air drive-in
theaters
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Tire retreading, recapping and vulcanizing
shops
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Tools, dies and hardware products
and firearms
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Trailer and truck body assembly
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Truck and transfer terminals, freight
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Vitreous enameled products
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Warehouses, wholesale houses and
distributors and wholesale markets
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Welding or soldering shops
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Wood products manufacture, including
baskets, boxes, crates, barrels and veneer
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Yarn, threads, cordage and industrial
fibers
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B.
Where, in the judgment of the Commission,
a use is not specifically referenced but is similar to those listed
as permitted, it may be permitted by approval of the Commission.
Permitted accessory uses shall be
as follows:
A.
Storage of goods or materials used in or
produced by permitted commercial and industrial uses or related activities,
subject to applicable district regulations.
B.
A single-family dwelling or single-family
manufactured home accessory to a farm of 10 acres or more.
[Amended 3-25-1997 by Ord. No. 1131; 10-12-2010 by Ord. No.
2152]
D.
Temporary buildings, including manufactured
home type structures, the use of which is incidental to construction
operations or sale of lots during development being conducted on the
same or adjoining tract or subdivision and which shall be removed
upon completion or abandonment of such construction or upon expiration
of a period of two years of the time of erection of the temporary
building, whichever is sooner. If construction operations or the initial
sale of lots remain actively underway, the Director may grant extensions
to this time period.
[Added 10-8-2019 by Ord. No. 2683]
The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses when approved in accordance with the provisions of Article XXIV of this chapter:
A.
Airports, heliports, helistops and landing
fields or seaplane bases, provided that they shall comply with the
recommendations of the Federal Aviation Administration.
B.
Bus terminals.
C.
Excavation or backfilling of borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of sand, gravel or stone, stripping of topsoil (but not including stripping of sod) and other major excavations other than for construction of swimming pools and foundations for buildings and other than those approved in connection with a street, subdivision or planned residential development. See § 115-172B.
D.
Public or governmental buildings and uses,
including schools, parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings.
E.
Public utilities or public service uses,
buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations,
substations and transmission lines utilizing multilegged structures,
but not telephone central offices.
Special use exceptions may be permitted by the Board of Adjustment and in accordance with the provisions of Article XXVII of this chapter and may include:
A.
Temporary and conditional permits for a
period, not to exceed five years, such period to be determined by
the Board, for the following uses:
[Amended 3-5-1991 by Ord. No. 750; 11-10-1992 by Ord. No.
863; 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 2152; 10-22-2019 by Ord. No. 2684]
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Archery ranges
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Asphalt batching plants or concrete
batching plants
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Commercial dog kennels
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Miniature golf courses or driving
ranges
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Outdoor display or promotional activities
at shopping centers or elsewhere
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Pony rings
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Raising for sale of birds, bees,
rabbits and other small animals, fish and other creatures
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Riding academies, public stables
or private stables
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Rifle or pistol ranges, trap or skeet
shooting
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Sawmills for cutting timber grown
on the premises
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Temporary buildings for use as a
sales or rental office for an approved real estate development or
subdivision
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Tents for special purposes for a
period exceeding three days. The Director may, without requiring an
application for a special use exception, grant approval for a tent
for a special purpose (revival, reception, tent sale as an accessory
to a business or commercial use, or other similar activities). If
approved by the Director, a tent for special purposes may be utilized
on a parcel no more than three times in a calendar year.
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Use of a manufactured-home-type structure
for any business, commercial or industrial use or residence for a
caretaker or watchman when not approved administratively by the Director
or his or her designee
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B.
Exceptions to parking and loading requirements
as follows:
(1)
Off-street parking areas, adjacent to or at a reasonable distance from the premises on which parking areas are required by the parking regulations of Article XXII, where practical difficulties, including the acquisition of property, or undue hardships are encountered in locating such parking areas on the premises and where the purpose of these regulations to relieve congestion in the streets would best be served by permitting such parking off the premises.
(2)
Waiver or reduction of the parking and
loading requirements in any district whenever the character or use
of the building is such as to make unnecessary the full provision
of parking or loading facilities.
(3)
Waiver or reduction of loading space requirements
where adequate community loading facilities are provided.
(4)
Waiver or reduction of loading space requirements
for uses which contain less than 10,000 square feet of floor area
where construction of existing buildings, problems of access or size
of lot make impractical the provision of required loading space.
[Amended 10-3-1989 by Ord. No. 61912-2-2008 by Ord. No. 2008]
See Article XXI, § 15-159.5, for signs permitted in the LI-2 Light Industrial District and other regulations relating to signs.
A.
Minimum lot size. Minimum lot size shall
be as follows:
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Use
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Area
(square feet)
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Width
(feet)
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Depth
(feet)
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All uses
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43,560 (1 acre)
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150
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200
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B.
Minimum yard requirements. Minimum yard
requirements shall be as follows:
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Use
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Depth of Front Yard
(feet)
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Width of Side Yard
(feet)
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Depth of Rear Yard
(feet)
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All uses
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50
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20
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20*
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*NOTE: See also the table of district
regulations at the end of this chapter.
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C.
Maximum height requirements. Maximum height
requirements shall be as follows:
[Amended 10-31-1995 by Ord. No. 1062]
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Use
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Feet
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All uses
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The regulations contained in this
Article are supplemented or modified by regulations contained in other
Articles of this chapter, especially the following:
