The Light Industrial District is intended to
accommodate light industrial, warehousing, and similar uses where
the external impacts are restricted to the site. Development is intended
to be limited to uses that can be carried out in an unobtrusive and
compatible manner with surrounding residential or commercial areas.
Industrial development is encouraged as an essential ingredient of
economic development in the community subject to reasonable provisions
set forth to avoid or limit air, noise, visual pollution and traffic
congestion.
In the Light Industrial 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. 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.
B. Cold storage, warehousing and distribution uses, and
similar businesses involved in the receipt, storage, sales, and delivery
of remanufactured products.
C. Commercial indoor recreation (see standards in §
515-132) and outdoor recreation (see standards in §
515-133).
D. Commercial greenhouses/nurseries (see standards in §
515-131).
F. General and special trade contractors.
G. General, sales, service and professional offices.
I. Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging,
treatment, or fabrication of such products as bakery goods, candy,
ceramics, cosmetics, clothing, electrical and electronic equipment,
jewelry, instruments, optical goods, pharmaceutical, toiletries, hardware,
cutlery and pottery, and similar material.
J. Medical offices, clinics (excluding hospitals), and
research facilities including accessory laboratories.
K. Meeting halls for union, trade or similar organizations.
L. Offices of an engineering, drafting, architectural,
electrical, plumbing or industrial design firm.
M. Public buildings with outdoor storage yard (see standards in §
515-154).
O. Research, experimental, film or testing laboratories.
Q. Self (mini) storage facilities (see standards in §
515-164).
R. Transit and passenger transportation facilities and trucking terminals (see standards in §
515-148).
S. Veterinary hospitals, clinics.
T. Uses similar to the above, when located and arranged
according to a plan demonstrating compatibility with other permitted
uses in the district.
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:
A. Agricultural implement sales and service facilities (§
515-124).
E. Outdoor storage yards for contractors' equipment, vehicles and materials but excluding salvage, junk, recycling, reclamation or scrap yards (§
515-152).
F. Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage requirements or activities, including a lumberyard, home center, or building materials outlet, wholesaler of food, machinery and other materials (§
515-152).
G. Tool, die, gauge, metal plating and machine shops (§
515-158).
H. Utility structures (§
515-159) and wireless communication facilities (§
515-130).
I. Vehicle convenience stations (§
515-160), vehicle wash facilities (§
515-163), vehicle repair garages (§
515-161), and vehicle service centers (§
515-162).
J. 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 LI 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 dumpster/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 LI 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 LI Light Industrial
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.