The purpose of this district is to
provide for a variety of industrial operations but to restrict or
prohibit those industries which have characteristics likely to produce
serious adverse effects within or beyond the limits of the district.
Certain potentially hazardous industries are permitted only after
public hearings and review to assure protection of the public interest
and surrounding property and persons. It is the intention of the district
to preserve the land in the district for industrial use and to exclude
new residential or commercial development, except for certain specified
uses deemed appropriate adjuncts to industrial operations.
A building or land shall be used
only for the following purposes:
A.
General enumeration.
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Any use permitted in the LI-2 District
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Banks, drive-in or otherwise
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Clinics
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Data-processing centers
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Dwellings for resident watchmen and
caretakers employed on the premises
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Farms and farming
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General business offices
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Heliports or helistops
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Hotels, motels or motor lodges
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Laboratories, research, experimental
or testing
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Nurseries and greenhouses
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Parking garages
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Private clubs
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Professional offices
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Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise
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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.
C.
The following uses and any similar industrial
uses which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibrations,
dust, heat, smoke, odor, glares or other objectionable influences
than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses permitted
and involving the manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging
or treatment of the following products or similar products. Where
any doubt exists as to the nature of a proposed use, product or process,
the proposal shall be considered as a potentially hazardous use and
referred to the Board of Adjustment for decision after a public hearing.
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Abrasive wheels, stones, paper, cloth
and related products
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Adhesives, but not glue or size manufacture
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Asbestos products
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Boat manufacture (over five tons
or over 60 feet)
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Brick, firebrick and clay products
(except coal-fired)
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Candles
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Concrete products or central mixing
and proportioning plants
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Docks, wharves and piers, marine
warehouses, freight-storage sheds and freight-handling equipment
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Dredging bases, marine construction
yards and marine
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Engine testing (internal-combustion
engines), but not jet engines or rockets
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Flour, feed and grain packaging,
blending and storage
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Galvanizing or plating (hot dip)
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Glass and glass products
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Ink manufacture from primary raw
materials (including colors and pigments)
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Monuments and architectural stone
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Oils, shortenings and fats (edible),
processing and storage
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Paper and paperboard (from paper
machine only), but not pulp mills
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Petroleum storage
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Pickles, vegetable relishes and sauces
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Pottery and porcelain products (other
than coal-fired)
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Sawmills (including cooperage stock
mills)
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Shipyards, drydocks and marine railways
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Soap products, but not soap manufacture
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Stone products, but not crushing
or grinding
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Structural iron and steel fabrication
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Wallboard and plaster, building,
insulation and composition flooring
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Wire rope and cable
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The following uses or the manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of products not specifically listed above or below but which may, in the opinion of the Director, have accompanying hazards, such as fire, explosion, noise, vibration, dust or the emission of smoke, odor, toxic gases or other pollutants may, if not in conflict with any state or county law or ordinance, be located in the HI-1 District only after the location and nature of such use shall have been approved by the Board of Adjustment after public hearing as provided in Article XXVII. The Board shall review the plans and statements and shall not permit such buildings, structures or uses until it has been shown that the public health, safety, morals and general welfare will be properly protected and that necessary safeguards will be provided for the protection of water areas or surrounding property and persons. The Board, in reviewing the plans and statements, shall consult with other agencies created for the promotion of public health and safety and shall pay particular attention to protection of the county and its waterways from the harmful effects of air or water pollution of any type.
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Asphalt products or central asphalt
mixing or batching
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Atomic reactors
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Automobile wrecking yards
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Bleaching products
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Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of
paris
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Cider and vinegar
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Cleaning and polishing preparation,
dressings and blackings processing
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Cotton ginning
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Cottonseed oil, refining
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Cotton wadding and linter
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Distillery (alcoholic), breweries
and alcoholic spirits (nonindustrial)
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Dyestuff
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Excelsior, fiber
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Fertilizer manufacture
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Film, photographic
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Fish curing or smoking, fish oils
and meal
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Flour, feed and grain milling
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Forge plant, pneumatic drop and forging
hammering
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Foundries
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Glue, gelatin (animal) or glue and
size (vegetable)
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Hair, hides and raw fur, curing,
tanning, dressing, dyeing and storage
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Incinerators, industrial or public
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Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants
or related industrial or household chemical compounds
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Junkyards, open or enclosed storage
of junk
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Jute, hemp and sisal products
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Linoleum and other hard-surface floor
coverings (except wood)
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Match manufacture
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Meat, fish or seafood products, including
slaughtering of animals or poultry or preparation of fish or seafood
for packing
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Minerals and earths, including sand
and gravel, quarrying, extracting, grinding, crushing and processing
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Molasses
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Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or
varnish
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Petroleum, gasoline and lubricating
oil, wholesale storage or by-products processing, but not refining
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Plastic material and synthetic resins,
processing only
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Power, light or steam plant, central
generating station
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Radioactive waste handling
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Refractories (other than coal-fired)
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Rendering and storage of dead animals,
offal, garbage and waste products
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Rubber products (natural or synthetic,
including tires, tubes or similar products), gutta-percha, chickle
and balta processing, but not rubber manufacture
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Shell grinding or dredging
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Slaughtering of animals
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Soaps or detergents, including fat
rendering
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Solvent packaging or processing,
but not refining
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Starch manufacture
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Stockyards
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Sugar refining
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Textile bleaching
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Wood preserving treatment, but not
creosote manufacture
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Wool pulling or scouring
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Permitted accessory uses shall be
as follows:
A.
Storage of goods used in or produced by
permitted commercial and industrial uses or related activities, subject
to applicable district regulations.
B.
A single-family dwelling of 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 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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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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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 provisions of required loading space.
[Amended 10-3-1989 by Ord. No. 619; 12-2-2008 by Ord. No. 2008
A.
Minimum lot size. Minimum lot size shall
be as follows:
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Use
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Area
(acres)
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Width
(feet)
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Depth
(feet)
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All uses
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2
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200
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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:
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Use
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Feet
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Stories
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All uses
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125*
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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:
