The Industrial Office District is intended to
accommodate office, engineering and product development, light industrial
and similar uses. Unlike many light and heavy industrial land uses,
those permitted within the IO District shall have minimum impacts
outside of the principal buildings and are intended to be carried
out in an unobtrusive and compatible manner with surrounding residential
or commercial areas.
In the IO District, no building or land shall
be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of
the following uses when carried out entirely within an enclosed building:
A. Computer programming, data processing, and other computer-related
services.
B. Educational facilities, trade and vocational schools.
C. Financial institutions such as banks, credit unions,
and savings and loan institutions.
D. Indoor recreation (see standards in §
515-132) and outdoor recreation (see standards in §
515-133).
E. General, service, sales and professional offices.
F. Manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances,
electronic instruments or precision devices, radios, phonographs (including
the manufacture of parts), musical instruments, toys, novelties, sporting
goods, and photographic equipment, only when fully enclosed within
a principal building, subject to the following:
(1) The minimum lot size shall be one acre.
(2) The minimum lot width shall be 175 feet.
(3) The minimum setback from any lot line shall be 50
feet.
G. Medical offices, clinics (excluding hospitals), and
research facilities (including accessory laboratories).
H. Meeting halls for union, trade or similar organizations.
I. Offices of an engineering, drafting, architectural,
electrical, plumbing, or industrial design firm.
J. Public buildings without outdoor storage.
L. Research, experimental, film or testing laboratories.
M. Restaurants (sit down, not fast food).
N. Veterinarian offices, excluding kennels.
O. Warehousing, provided it does not comprise more than
50% of any principal structure on a single lot or, in the case of
a multiple building development or an industrial plat or condominium,
warehousing shall not comprise more than 50% of the total gross floor
area of the development.
P. Manufacture, compounding, processing, assembling,
treatment or packaging of articles or merchandise from previously
prepared materials entirely within a completely enclosed building
(excluding large stamping operations, saw and planing mills) subject
to the following:
(1) The minimum lot size shall be one acre.
(2) The minimum lot width shall be 175 feet.
(3) The minimum setback from any lot line shall be 50
feet.
Q. Accessory uses and structures incidental to the principal
use.
The following special land uses may be permitted only after review and approval by the Planning Commission, subject to the requirements and standards of Article
XX and the submission of a site plan conforming with the requirements of §
515-100:
D. Nursery schools and child-care centers (§
515-149).
F. Skilled trade services, including, but not limited
to, plumbing, electric, and heating.
G. Utility structures (§
515-159) and wireless communication facilities (§
515-130).
H. Sit-down restaurants (not fast food).
I. Uses which the Planning Commission determines are similar to and compatible with the intent of this section and the special land uses in Article
XX.
Accessory buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in accordance with §
515-78, including accessory outdoor storage which conforms with the provisions of §
515-152 (special approval not required).
All uses within the IO District shall comply
with the following required conditions:
A. Except as otherwise provided in this article, all
uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.
B. Outdoor storage is permitted which is clearly accessory to the permitted principal use, limited in scale, incidental to the primary indoor use(s) on the site, and completely screened in accordance with §
515-91.
C. No truck well, loading dock or door shall be permitted
on or in the wall of the building which faces an abutting residential
district and only pedestrian exits or emergency doors shall be allowed
on such wall. All loading/unloading docks and truck wells shall be
placed on or in the wall of the building that is opposite the boundary
of the residential district or on the wall that lies approximately
at a 90° angle to the residential district boundary. If such door,
truck well and/or dock faces the front street, then such dock, truck
well or door shall be recessed by not less than 60 feet from the front
wall of the building in order to provide that a truck tractor and
trailer shall not, when in place for loading or unloading at the dock
or well, project past the front wall of the building. Also, the site
plan and driveways shall be designed in such a manner to discourage
truck access to that portion of the lot or site that is adjacent to
a residential district.
D. Waste materials of any sort shall be screened from public view by a masonry wall and shall be consolidated in a defined trash receptacle area in conformance with §
515-91K(1).
E. Exterior site lighting shall be in accordance with §
515-90G. In addition, where a building wall faces an abutting residential district there shall be no floodlighting of such facade. This shall not preclude the lighting of doorways on such facades.
F. For all uses permitted in the IO District there shall
be a finding by the Planning Commission that:
(1) The scale, size, building design, facade materials,
landscaping and activity of the use is such that current and future
adjacent residential uses will be protected from any adverse impacts.
(2) The intended truck delivery service can be effectively
handled without long-term truck parking on site.
(3) The lighting, noise, vibration, odor and other possible impacts are in compliance with standards and intent of this article and performance standards of §
515-90.
(4) The storage and/or use of any volatile, flammable
or other materials shall be fully identified in the application and
shall comply with any Village ordinances regarding toxic or hazardous
materials.
G. All uses in this district require site plan review and approval. Site plans shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements of §
515-100 of this chapter and shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Commission prior to issuance of a building permit.
H. See Article
XVIII, General Provisions, relating to off-street parking, off-street parking layout, landscaping and screening requirements and other sections of the article as they relate to uses permitted in the district.
I. Except where otherwise regulated in this article, refer to Article
XVII, Schedule of District Regulations, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of lot by permitted land use, the minimum yard setback requirements and development options.
J. No required front yard space in any IO District shall
be used for the storage or parking of vehicles or any other materials
or equipment.
K. Prohibited use of open areas: No machinery, equipment,
vehicles or other materials shall be stored or parked unless in full
accordance with the Village of New Haven Nuisance Ordinance.