The purpose of this district is to:
A. Provide
for a wider range of industries and related uses than the LI District.
B. Require
compliance with the performance standards of this chapter.
[Amended 3-18-2002 by Ord. No. 03-02]
Only the following are permitted-by-right uses in the GI District, provided that the requirements for specific uses in Article
XX are met:
A. All uses listed as permitted-by-right uses in the LI District in §
275-102, except that:
(1) No use is required to be within a planned business
development.
(2) Nursery school/day-care center is not permitted.
(3) Orthopedic specialty center is not permitted.
B. Warehousing and distribution, which may occur as a
principal or accessory use.
Only the following are permitted by special exception uses in the GI District, provided that the requirements for specific uses in Article
XX and the performance standards of Article
XVI are met:
A. The following uses, provided that all manufacturing
and storage facilities will be set back a minimum of 400 feet from
any residential district boundary or existing dwelling:
(1) Manufacture of soaps, detergents, paints, varnishes
or enamels.
(2) Manufacture of natural or synthetic rubber products.
(3) Manufacture of plastics, polymers, resins or vinyl.
(4) Bulk manufacture of chemicals that are not highly
hazardous.
(5) Manufacture of paving or roofing materials, including
asphalt.
(7) Manufacture of cement, gypsum, concrete or plaster
products.
(8) Trucking company terminal.
(9) Abrasive or nonmetallic mineral products.
(10)
Primary (as opposed to fabricated) metal products.
(14)
Solid waste disposal facility.
(16)
Motor vehicle race track.
C. Other Industrial Activities involving processing,
distribution, recycling, cleaning, assembling, packaging, conversion,
production, repair or testing of materials or products, provided:
(1) The applicant clearly proves to the satisfaction of
the Zoning Hearing Board that the use would have a character, intensity
and impacts similar to permitted by right and/or special exception
uses.
(2) The use is not prohibited in the District.
(3) The applicant clearly proves to the satisfaction of
the Zoning Hearing Board that the use will not generate significant
nuisances and will not threaten the public health and safety.
[Amended 3-15-1999 by Ord. No. 5-99]
The following are conditional uses in the GI
District, provided that all other requirements of this chapter are
met:
A. Emergency services station.
B. Campground, water-based recreational.
C. Commercial communications tower.
[Added 3-19-2001 by Ord. No. 03-01]
D. Highway maintenance facility.
[Added 8-7-2006 by Ord. No. 06-06]
E. Grower/processor facility.
[Added 3-20-2017 by Ord.
No. 02-17]
F. Medical marijuana delivery vehicle office.
[Added 3-20-2017 by Ord.
No. 02-17]
G. Academic clinical research center.
[Added 3-20-2017 by Ord.
No. 02-17]
H. Dispensary facility.
[Added 3-20-2017 by Ord.
No. 02-17]
I. Delivery
vehicle parking lot.
[Added 8-16-2021 by Ord. No. 07-21]
All uses not specifically permitted are prohibited,
unless their allowance is implied by a closely similar use. The following
uses are very specifically prohibited in the GI District as principal
and/or accessory uses:
A. All uses are prohibited that would have a serious threat of future inability to comply with the performance standards of this chapter, as stated in Article
XVI.
B. All of the following uses are prohibited:
(1) Tar distillation or manufacture.
(3) Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(4) Explosives, fireworks, ammunition and gunpowder manufacture
or bulk storage (except storage within a U.S. military or state-owned
facility).
(5) Incineration, reduction, distillation, storage or
dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, bones, dead
animals or offal (see incineration of waste as part of a solid waste
disposal facility).
(6) Bulk manufacture of hazardous chemicals including,
but not limited to, the following acids: hydrochloric, nitric, picric,
sulfuric, sulphanous or carbolic.
(9) Petroleum or kerosene refining or distillation.
(11)
Stockyard, slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant.
The lot and setback regulations for the OB District (§
275-91) shall apply, except that a five-acre minimum lot area shall be required for any special exception use. See also the special setback requirements for certain special exception uses. Uses in the GI District are not required to be within a planned business development.