The I-2 General Industrial District is designed primarily for
manufacturing, assembling, and fabrication activities, including large-scale
or specialized industrial operations, whose external effects may be
felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 District is
so structured as to permit the manufacturing, processing, and compounding
of semifinished or finished products from raw material as well as
from previously prepared material.
The following regulations shall apply to all I-2 Districts,
and no building, structure, or premises, except as otherwise provided
in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used, except for one
or more of the following uses:
A.
Any principal use first permitted in an I-1 District.
B.
Heating and electric power-generating plants, and all necessary uses.
C.
Any production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, repair,
or storage of materials, goods or products which shall not be injurious
to the occupants of adjacent premises or districts by reason of the
emission or creation of noise, vibration, smoke, dust or particulate
matter, toxic and noxious materials, odors, fire or explosive hazards,
or glare or heat.
D.
Junkyards, provided such are entirely enclosed within a building
or behind a completely obscuring wall, and provided further that one
property line abuts a railroad right-of-way. There shall be no outdoor
burning on the site, and all industrial processes involving the use
of equipment for cutting, compressing or packaging shall be conducted
within a completely enclosed building. There shall be no stocking
of any material above the height of the wall, except that movable
equipment used on the site may exceed the wall height.
E.
Incineration of garbage or refuse when conducted within an approved
and enclosed incinerator plant, provided further that no outdoor or
open storage of such materials shall be permitted and provided further
that such uses shall receive approval of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
F.
Tool and die shop.
G.
Metal plating, buffing and polishing.
H.
Stamping plant.
I.
Machine shop.
J.
Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above
permitted uses.
[Added 3-23-2010 by Ord. No. 1235[1]]
The following uses shall be permitted, subject to conditions
hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to the review
and approval of the Building Department or Planning Commission.
The following conditions, where applicable, shall apply to all
uses permitted in the I-2 District.
A.
The outdoor storage of products and materials shall be permitted,
provided:
(1)
All outdoor storage shall be located in the rear yard or within a
nonrequired interior side yard. No outdoor storage of any kind shall
be permitted in any designated off-street parking or loading, unloading
area.
B.
All uses permitted in the I-2 District shall comply fully with applicable standards of § 370-111, Performance standards, of this chapter.
C.
See Article XVIII, Schedule of Regulations; District Options, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of a lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted and providing minimum yard setback requirements.
