The LI District provides for an industrial and wholesale district for uses that maintain open space and a pleasant environment that is more inviting to the general public than a general industrial area.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The following are permitted in the Limited Industrial District:
A. 
Any uses allowed in the B-1 Business Zone, except adult entertainment establishments.
B. 
Uses to include:
(1) 
Construction:
(a) 
Carpentry and flooring (construction).
(b) 
Concrete work (construction).
(c) 
Electrical work (construction).
(d) 
Masonry, stonework, tile setting and plastering (construction).
(e) 
Miscellaneous special trade contractors (construction).
(f) 
Painting, paper hanging and decorating (construction).
(g) 
Plumbing, heating and air conditioning.
(h) 
Roofing and sheet metal work (construction).
(i) 
Water well drilling (construction).
(2) 
Manufacturing:
Aircraft and parts
Bakery products
Beverages
Books, blank books, loose-leaf binders and bookbinding and related work
Boot and shoe cut stock and bindings
Broad woven fabric mills, cotton
Broad woven fabric mills, man-made fiber and silk
Broad woven fabric mills, wool (including dyeing and finishing)
Building paper and building board mills
Cigarettes
Cigars
Coating, engraving and allied services
Communication equipment
Construction, mining and materials handling, machinery and equipment
Converted paper and paperboard products, except container and boxes
Costume jewelry, costume novelties, buttons and miscellaneous notions, except precious
Cutlery, hand tools and general hardware
Cut stone and stone products
Dairy products
Drugs
Dyeing and finishing textiles, except wool fabrics and knit goods
Electrical lighting and wiring equipment
Electrical transmission and distribution equipment
Electronic components and accessories
Engineering, laboratory, scientific and research instruments and associated equipment
Engines and turbines
Fabricated rubber products, not elsewhere classified
Fabricated structural metal products
Farm and garden machinery and equipment
Flat glass
Floor covering mills
Footwear, except rubber
Fur goods
General industrial machinery and equipment
Girls', children's and infants' outerwear
Glass and glassware, pressed or blown
Greeting cards publishing
Guided missiles and space vehicles and parts
Handbags and other personal leather goods
Hats, caps and millinery
Heating equipment, except electric and warm air plumbing fixtures
Household appliances
Household furniture
Industrial apparatus
Jewelry, silverware and plated wire
Knitting mills
Leather gloves and mittens
Leather goods, not elsewhere classified
Luggage
Manifold business forms
Measuring and controlling instruments
Men's, youths' and boys' furnishings, clothing and garments
Metal cans
Metal forgings and stampings
Metal shipping containers
Metalworking, machinery and equipment
Millwork, veneer, plywood and structural wood members
Miscellaneous apparel and accessories
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment and supplies
Miscellaneous fabricated metal products
Miscellaneous fabricated textile products
Miscellaneous food preparation and kindred products
Miscellaneous furniture and fixtures
Miscellaneous machinery, except electrical
Miscellaneous manufacturing
Miscellaneous plastic products
Miscellaneous primary metal products
Miscellaneous printing
Miscellaneous textile goods
Miscellaneous transportation equipment
Miscellaneous wood products
Motorcycles, bicycles and parts
Musical instruments
Narrow fabrics and other small wares mills
Newspapers: publishing, publishing and printing
Nonferrous foundries (casting)
Office computing and accounting machines
Office furniture
Ophthalmic goods
Optical instruments and lenses
Ordnance and accessories except vehicles and guided missiles
Paperboard containers and boxes
Partitions, shelving, lockers and office and store fixtures
Pens, pencils and other office and artist's materials
Periodicals: publishing, publishing and printing
Photographic equipment and supplies
Pottery and related products
Public building and related furniture
Radio and television receiving equipment, not communication types
Reclaimed rubber
Refrigeration and service industry machinery
Rolling, drawing and extruding of nonferrous metals
Rubber and plastic footwear
Rubber and plastic hose and belting
Screw machine products and bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and washers
Service industries for the printing trade
Special industrial machinery, except metalworking machinery
Sugar and confectionary products
Surgical, medical and dental instruments and supplies
Tires and inner tubes
Tobacco (chewing and smoking) and snuff
Tobacco stemming and redrying
Toys and amusements; sporting and athletic goods
Watches, clocks, clockwork-operated devices and parts
Women's, misses', children's and infants' undergarments
Women's, misses' and juniors' outerwear
Wood buildings and mobile homes
Wood containers
Yarn and thread mills
(3) 
Transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services:
(a) 
Arrangement of transportation.
(b) 
Communication services not elsewhere classified.
(c) 
Electrical services.
(d) 
Miscellaneous services incidental to transportation.
(e) 
Motor freight transportation and warehousing, public warehousing.
(f) 
Motor freight transportation and warehousing, trucking local and long distance.
(g) 
Pipelines, except natural gas.
(h) 
Radio and television broadcasting.
(i) 
Railway express service.
(j) 
Telegraph communication (wire or radio).
(k) 
Telephone communication (wire or radio).
(l) 
Terminal and joint terminal maintenance facilities for motor freight transportation.
(m) 
Transportation services: freight forwarding.
(n) 
U.S. Postal Service.
(4) 
Wholesale trade:
(a) 
Apparel, piece goods and notions.
(b) 
Beer, wine and distilled alcoholic beverages.
(c) 
Chemicals and allied products.
(d) 
Drugs, proprietaries and druggists' sundries.
(e) 
Electrical goods.
(f) 
Farm products, raw materials, except for livestock.
(g) 
Furniture and home furnishings.
(h) 
Groceries and related products.
(i) 
Hardware and plumbing and heating equipment and supplies.
(j) 
Lumber and other construction materials.
(k) 
Miscellaneous durable goods.
(l) 
Miscellaneous nondurable goods, subject to Planning and Zoning Board approval.
(m) 
Paper and paper products.
(n) 
Sporting, recreational, and photographic goods, toys and supplies.
(o) 
Vehicles and automotive parts and supplies.
(5) 
Retail:
(a) 
Fuel and ice dealers.
(6) 
Services:
(a) 
Electrical repair shops.
(b) 
Laundry, cleaning and garment services, excluding power laundries, family and commercial, coin-operated laundries and dry cleaning.
(c) 
Miscellaneous business service.
(d) 
Miscellaneous repair shops and related services.
(e) 
Motion-picture production and allied services.
(f) 
Services to dwellings and other buildings.
(7) 
Public administration:
(a) 
Space research and technology.
(8) 
Restaurants.
(9) 
Service stations.
(10) 
Health care clinics.
(11) 
Banking, savings and loan and credit institutions.
(12) 
Warehouses.
C. 
Any other use determined by the Town Planning and Zoning Board and/or Town Board to be similar in nature to the above permitted uses.
A. 
Any lot serviced by public sanitary sewer system in this district shall have an area of not less than 12,000 square feet and a street frontage of no less than 100 feet; however, such minimum lot width may be measured at the building setback line if said lot is located on the outer radius of a curved street, such as a cul-de-sac.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
B. 
Any lot not served by public sanitary sewer in this district shall have an area of not less than 1.5 acres and a street frontage of not less than 200 feet; however, such minimum lot width may be measured at the building setback line if said lot is located on the outer radius of a curved street, such as a cul-de-sac.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
C. 
A minimum of 25% green space required.
No building or any improvements shall be erected, placed or altered on any building site until the plans for such building or improvement, including site plan, landscape plan, building plan and specifications, have been approved by the Town Board of the Town of Lawrence or its designated agent or representative. The Town Board or its designated agent or representative shall approve or disapprove such plans with respect to conformity with restrictions and other applicable enactments of the Town of Lawrence and with respect to harmony of external design and land use as it affects surrounding properties.
All structures: 45 feet maximum, except as provided by Article III, § 300-12, Height regulations, and § 300-9, Buildings and uses.
A. 
Sewered lots and nonsewered lots.
Principal Structure
Accessory Buildings and Structures
Front yard
At least 30 feet from right-of-way
Not allowed
Side yard
15 feet minimum from property line
10 feet minimum from property line
Rear yard
15 feet minimum from property line
10 feet minimum from property line
Corner side
30 feet minimum from right-of-way
30 feet minimum from right-of-way
B. 
Transitional yards. Where a side or rear lot line in an LI District coincides with a side or rear lot line in an adjacent residential district, a yard shall be provided along such side or rear lot line not less than 50 feet in depth and shall contain landscaping and planting suitable to provide an effective screen.
Parking shall conform to requirements as set forth in Article XX, Off-Street Parking Requirements.
Loading areas shall be provided so that any and all vehicles loading or unloading are completely off the public ways.