[Ord. No. 2000-46 §1(15-00), 4-10-2000]
It is the purpose of the "I-2" Industrial Manufacturing District to create heavy industrial areas that will be acceptable within the City and will not adversely affect adjacent business or residential neighborhoods. Manufacturing establishments should not create offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences other than the minimum amount normally resulting from that type of use, provided that they be minimized or eliminated by engineering or site design features. In the interest of general health and welfare, residential and certain institutional uses are not permitted within this district.
[Ord. No. 2000-46 §1(15-01), 4-10-2000]
The general uses related to industrial, warehousing and processing activities are permitted activities. Permitted activities must be evaluated on the basis of the presence of objectionable features or conditions likely to occur as a result of such an activity occurring within an "I-2" Industrial Manufacturing District. See Land Use Matrix.
[Ord. No. 2000-46 §1(15-02), 4-10-2000]
The City Council shall have the responsibility of issuing conditional use permits for activities which may pose a problem with respect to noise, pollution, vibration or due to the injurious nature of a manufacturing activity. All manufacturing activities that the Zoning Administrator, City Health Officer, City Engineer or Chief of the Fire Department deem as potentially hazardous to the citizens of Chillicothe shall be required to obtain a special use permit prior to construction. See Land Use Matrix.
[Ord. No. 2000-46 §1(15-03), 4-10-2000; Ord. No. 2006-91 §1(15.03), 9-11-2006; Ord. No. 2014-40 §1, 8-11-2014]
A. 
The following general requirements shall be observed:
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Maximum building height: the lesser of three (3) stories or fifty (50) feet for accessory or primary structures.
2. 
Setbacks required. Side next to street: twenty (20) feet.
3. 
Storage. The storage of combustible or flammable materials will be a minimum of two hundred (200) feet from any residential district and conform to International Fire Code and National Fire Protection Association (NEPA) rules.
4. 
Structure heights. Structure heights greater than three (3) stories or fifty (50) feet are permitted by variance only.
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Allowable percentage of lot coverage: sixty percent (60%).
6. 
Adequate on-lot parking.
[Ord. No. 2000-46 §1(15-04), 4-10-2000; Ord. No. 2014-40 §1, 8-11-2014]
A. 
The Planning and Zoning Commission may, at its discretion and based upon recommendations from the Zoning Administrator, City Engineer, City Health Officer or Chief of the Fire Department, require any or all of the following special measures:
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Landscaping. All open areas of any site, lot, tract or parcel shall be graded to provide proper drainage and, except for areas used for parking, drives or storage shall be landscaped with trees, shrubs or planted ground cover. Such landscaping shall conform to the planting plan approved at the time the building permit was issued. It shall be the owner's responsibility to see that this landscaping is maintained in an attractive and well-kept condition. All adjacent vacant lots, tracts or parcels under the same ownership shall also be properly maintained.
2. 
Screening. All principal, accessory and conditional uses, except business signs which are situated within fifty (50) feet of a residential district, shall be screened and buffered from such district by a separation of open space which shall have a minimum depth of thirty (30) feet and shall include a required fence or vegetative screening of not less than ninety percent (90%) opacity and not less than eight (8) feet in height above the level of the residential district property at the district boundary. Walls or fences of lesser heights or planting screens may be permitted by the Planning and Zoning Commission if there is a finding that the nature or extent of the use being screened is such that a lesser degree of screening will adequately promote and protect the use and enjoyment of the properties within the adjacent residential district or there is a finding that a screening of the type required by this Chapter would interfere with the provision of adequate amounts of light and air to same said properties. Loading docks in the "I-2" industrial Manufacturing District shall be screened so as not to be visible from any public street right-of-way within a residential district. All required screening devices shall be designed so that they are architecturally harmonious with the principal structures on the site and they shall be properly maintained so as not to become unsightly, hazardous or less opaque than when originally constructed.
3. 
Storage. The storage of combustible or flammable materials will be a minimum of two hundred (200) feet from any residential district and conform to BOCA rules.
4. 
Structure heights. Structure heights greater than fifty (50) feet are permitted by variance only.
5. 
All industrial uses shall provide adequate off-street parking as determined by the City Planning and Zoning Commission.
6. 
Business to be confined to owner lots. All businesses, services and processing associated with businesses are to be conducted on the primary lot owned or leased by the business, without need for storage of inventory, vehicles or product of any kind on City rights-of-way or on other (third-party) property.