[Added 7-8-2015 by Ord. No. 935]
In expansion of the legislative intent and community development objectives contained in Article I, §§ 150-10 and 150-11, of this chapter, it is the intent of this article to:
A. 
Permit a range of research, manufacturing, warehousing, and other industrial uses.
B. 
Provide local job opportunities for Township residents.
C. 
Limit the potential adverse effect of industrial development on abutting residential properties, the Township's character and the Township's roads by controlling the location and nature of the industrial development.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used for any of the following purposes and for no other:
A. 
Administrative, business, professional or corporate offices.
B. 
Administrative office building accessory to a permitted use.
C. 
Contractor's office and storage, provided that all materials and equipment are located entirely within an enclosed building.
D. 
Manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, processing and packaging of natural and man-made materials, except those uses specifically prohibited in § 114-12C2 below.
E. 
Printing, publishing, lithography or similar processes.
F. 
Public or governmental utility building.
G. 
Scientific or industrial research, engineering, training, testing, experimental laboratory or similar establishment.
H. 
Trade or professional school.
A. 
The following uses shall not be permitted:
(1) 
Abattoir.
(2) 
Acetylene gas manufacture and/or storage.
(3) 
Acid manufacture (hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulphuric, sulphanous, carbolic).
(4) 
Airport.
(5) 
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture.
(6) 
Ammunition manufacture and/or storage.
(7) 
Arsenal.
(8) 
Asphalt manufacturing or refining.
(9) 
Automobile junk or dismantling yards, including wrecking and storage.
(10) 
Blast furnace.
(11) 
Bone distillation.
(12) 
Celluloid manufacture.
(13) 
Cement, including cement mixing plant, concrete mixing plant, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture.
(14) 
Coal distillation.
(15) 
Coke ovens.
(16) 
Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(17) 
Dead animal and offal reduction.
(18) 
Distillation of bones, coal, petroleum, refuse grain or wood (except in the manufacture of gas).
(19) 
Distillation of tar.
(20) 
Drop hammer.
(21) 
Dyestuff manufacture.
(22) 
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture.
(23) 
Exterminator and insect poison manufacture.
(24) 
Explosives, fireworks and gunpowder manufacture or storage.
(25) 
Fat rendering, manufacturing of vegetable, animal or mineral fats and oils.
(26) 
Fertilizer manufacture.
(27) 
Forge plant.
(28) 
Fish smoking and curing.
(29) 
Flour mill.
(30) 
Glue, size or gelatin manufacture.
(31) 
Heliport.
(32) 
Hog farm.
(33) 
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animal or offal.
(34) 
Lime kiln.
(35) 
Match manufacture.
(36) 
Meat packing.
(37) 
Mining.
(38) 
Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture.
(39) 
Ore reduction.
(40) 
Packing and crating, motor vehicle trucking yard or terminal.
(41) 
Petroleum or kerosene refining, distillation or derivation of by-products and/or storage.
(42) 
Plating works.
(43) 
Potash works.
(44) 
Power forge (riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of iron, steel, brass or copper, except as a necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noise outside the plant.
(45) 
Pyroxylin manufacture.
(46) 
Quarrying or removal of soil or mineral deposits in any form, including blasting operations.
(47) 
Rubber, caoutchouc or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment, tire recapping and vulcanizing.
(48) 
Soap and detergent manufacture.
(49) 
Steel furnace, blooming mill or rolling mill.
(50) 
Stockyards.
(51) 
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining.
(52) 
Tanning, curing or storage of leather, rawhides or skins.
(53) 
Tar distillation or manufacture.
(54) 
Transportation services, including the keeping or storage of passenger or school buses, limousines or taxicabs.
(55) 
Vinegar manufacture.
(56) 
Wool pulling or scouring.
(57) 
Any other use which is or may be noxious or offensive by reason of odor, dust, fumes, smoke, gas, vibration, illumination or noise or harmful radiation or which is or may be dangerous to the public health, welfare or safety or which constitutes or may constitute a public hazard, whether by fire, explosion or otherwise.
A. 
Lot area requirements: a lot area sufficient in size to assure that the legislative intent of this section is met, and that all yard setback and boundary buffer requirements are provided.
B. 
Building and impervious coverage area requirements. The maximum impervious material coverage of an LI Limited Industrial District development, including building coverage, shall not exceed 70% of the total lot area.
A. 
The maximum building height for buildings or other structures erected or enlarged in the LI Limited Industrial District shall be 35 feet.
B. 
Chimneys, spires, towers, elevator penthouses, tanks, solar energy apparatus, and similar projections shall not be included in the building or structure height calculation, provided that such projections shall be permitted to extend not more than 10 feet above the allowable building height. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such projections may extend more than 10 feet above the allowable building height when authorized by the Board of Commissioners. Any such structure must be located at least two feet back from the edge of the roof for each one foot or fraction thereof it projects above 35 feet.
Front, side and rear yards shall be provided on each lot as follows:
A. 
Front yard. Twenty-five feet shall be the minimum front yard on each lot in the LI Limited Industrial District.
B. 
Side yard. Twenty-five feet shall be the minimum aggregate of the multiple side yards on each lot in the LI Limited Industrial District. No side yard shall be less than 10 feet. In the case of any lot which, at the time this chapter becomes effective, is held in single and separate ownership and which has a width of 100 feet or less, the minimum aggregate of the side yards shall be reduced to 15 feet, but no side yard shall be less than five feet.
C. 
Rear yard. Twenty-five feet shall be the minimum rear yard on each lot in the LI Limited Industrial District.
D. 
Yard abutting residential district. Along any residential district boundary line, an additional 50 feet shall be added to the minimum front, side and rear yard setback required above. Where a street constitutes the district boundary line, the yard shall be measured from the right-of-way line.
E. 
Boundary buffers. Landscape buffers, street trees and parking area landscaping shall be provided in accordance with § 95-11I of the Springfield Township Code.