The purpose of this district is to
provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for certain types
of business and manufacturing, relatively free from offense, in modern
landscaped buildings, to make available more attractive locations
for these businesses and industries and to provide opportunities for
employment closer to places of residence with corresponding reduction
of travel time from home to work. Certain commercial uses are permitted,
primarily for service to employees in the district. Typical development
in the district would be that which is commonly known as an "industrial
park." Accessory signs of limited area and application are permitted.
The uses permitted in this district
shall be subject to the following special conditions:
A. All uses shall be conducted within a completely
enclosed building with no open storage of raw, in-process or finished
material. Supplies or waste may be stored in the open if screened
from the street by landscaping, fences or walks.
B. Notwithstanding the yard regulations for
the district, no part of any building, accessory structure or sign
shall be located closer than 100 feet to any residential district
boundary.
C. All main plant buildings shall be of concrete, structural steel or masonry construction and limited to 35 feet in height unless otherwise approved by the Board of Adjustment under Article
XXVII.
D. Adequate parking and loading space shall be provided off the street for all employees and traffic to the building, if necessary in excess of the minimum requirements of Articles
XXII and
XXIII.
E. Loading operations shall be conducted at
the side or rear of buildings. Service drives or other access shall
be provided for off-street loading and in such a way that, in the
process of loading or unloading, no truck will block the passage of
other vehicles on the service drive or extend into any other public
or private drive or street used for traffic circulation.
F. No parking or storage of material or products
shall be permitted in the required front yard.
G. The front yard shall be landscaped with
trees, grass, shrubs or pedestrian walks and maintained in a neat
and attractive condition.
H. All fencing shall have a uniform and durable
character and shall be properly maintained.
A building or land shall be used
for the following purposes:
A. Generally, those light manufacturing uses
similar to those listed below which do not create any more danger
to health and safety in surrounding areas and which do not create
any more offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, lint, odor, heat
or glare than that which is generally associated with light industries
of the types specifically permitted below:
(1) Manufacture or assembly of medical and
dental equipment, drafting, optical and musical instruments, watches,
clocks, toys, games and electrical or electronic apparatus.
(2) Manufacture or assembly of boats, bolts,
nuts, screws and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, electrical
appliances, tools, dies, machinery and hardwood products, sheet metal
products and vitreous enamelized metal products.
(3) Beverage blending or bottling, bakery products,
candy manufacture, dairy products and ice cream, fruit and vegetable
processing and canning, packing and processing of fish, meat and poultry
products, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of poultry
or animals, or processing or bulk storage of grain or feeds for animals
or poultry.
(4) Manufacture of rugs, mattresses, pillows,
quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, printing and finishing
of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.
(5) Manufacture of boxes, furniture cabinets,
baskets and other wood products of similar nature.
(6) Compounding of cosmetics, toiletries, drugs
and pharmaceutical products.
B. Auditoriums or lecture halls and recreation
facilities primarily for employees in the district.
C. Banks, drive-in or otherwise.
D. Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers
employed on the premises.
E. Farms and farming, nurseries and greenhouses.
F. Filling stations, if located in a district
of 50 acres or more and limited in land area to one acre, and not
including truck or trailer storage or mechanical servicing of trucks
or trailers.
G. Hotels, motels or motor lodges, if located
in a district of 50 acres or more.
H. Laboratories, research, experimental or
testing, but not testing combustion engines or explosives.
I. Offices and office buildings.
K. Nurseries for growing or propagation of
plants, trees and shrubs.
L. Photographic processing or blueprinting.
Q. Wholesale merchandising or storage warehouses,
provided that such uses are not objectionable by reason of odor, dust,
noise or similar factors.
R. Telephone central offices, provided that
all storage of materials, all repair facilities and all housing of
repair crews are within a completely enclosed area.
S. Telephone stations or booths, including
drive-in or talking-from-car stations.
T. Use of a manufactured-home-type structure for any business, commercial or industrial use that is administratively approved by the Director or his or her designee, and subject to the requirements set forth in Article
IV, §
115-20A(16).
[Added 10-22-2019 by Ord. No. 2684]
Permitted accessory uses are 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 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]
C. A wind turbine which meets §
115-194.4 as a permitted use.
[Amended 9-13-2011 by Ord. No. 2213]
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 or helistops and landing
fields or seaplane bases, provided that they shall comply with the
recommendations of the Federal Aviation Administration.
C. Excavation or backfilling of borrow pits, extractions, 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 utilities or public service uses,
buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping stations or regulator
stations, substations and transmission lines utilizing multilegged
structures.
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; 10-12-1999 by Ord. No. 1346; 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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Raising for sale of birds, bees,
rabbits and other small animals, fish and other creatures
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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 as a single-family
dwelling in any district to meet an emergency or hardship situation,
such permit not to exceed two years. The Director may, without requiring
an application for a special use exception, grant an extension for
an emergency or hardship situation previously approved by the County
Board of Adjustment upon receipt of an affidavit from a doctor stating
that the emergency or hardship situation still exists. Such extension
may be granted annually as long as the emergency or hardship still
exists.
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Use of a manufactured-home-type structure
for any business, commercial or industrial use 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.
C. Other special use exceptions as follows:
(2) 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.
(3) The alteration, extension or replacement of a nonconforming manufactured home, subject to the provisions of §
115-196.
[Amended 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 2152]
D. Structures of mixed use, commercial and residential, subject to the provisions of Articles
IV through
XX and §
115-219.
[Amended 10-3-1989 by Ord. No. 619; 12-2-2008 by Ord. No. 2008]
See Article
XXI, §
115-159.5, for signs permitted in the LI-1 Limited Industrial District and other regulations relating to signs.
The regulations contained in this
Article are supplemented or modified by regulations contained in other
Articles of this chapter, especially the following:
Article I, § 115-4, Definitions and word usage
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Article XXII, Off-Street Parking
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Article XXIII, Off-Street Loading
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Article XXIV, Conditional Uses
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Article XXV, Supplementary Regulations
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Article XXVII, Board of Adjustment
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