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.
G. Metal plating, buffing and polishing.
J. Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.
[Added 3-23-2010 by Ord. No. 1235]
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.
A. Uses, which serve the convenience needs of the industrial district such as eating and drinking establishments.
B. Medical marihuana cultivation operation.
[Added 4-13-2021 by Ord. No. 1321]
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.
(2) All outdoor storage shall be screened from view in accordance with the requirements set forth in Article
XXII of this chapter.
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.
D. See Article
XIX, Use Permits.
E. See Article
XX, Off-Street Parking Standards.
(1) Section
370-75, General parking requirements.
(2) Section
370-76, Off-street parking and vehicle stacking space requirements.
(3) Section
370-77, Off-street parking space layout standards.
(4) Section
370-78, Off-street loading and unloading.
F. Article
XXI, Site Plan Review.
G. Article
XXII, Screening Devices and Landscaping.
(1) Section
370-81 Screening devices required.
(4) Section
370-84, Landscape planting screen.
(5) Section
370-85, Building wall serving as screen.
(7) Section
370-87, Landscape planting standards.
(8) Section
370-88, Required conditions for landscape planting screens.
(11) Section
370-91, Layout standards; plant materials.
(12) Section
370-92, Landscaping for aesthetic purposes.
(15) Section
370-95, Exterior utility equipment screens.
H. See Article
XXIII, General Provisions.
(5) Section
370-106, Access to major thoroughfares.
(6) Section
370-107, Exterior building wall materials guidelines.
I. See Article
XXV, General Exceptions.