A.
Purpose. An industrial district was created to promote those land
uses involved in the processing, manufacturing, handling, and transportation
of goods and products. All property and/or business owners within
the I-2 District shall be held accountable to meeting all federal
and state regulatory requirements as they relate to environmental,
air, and water quality.
B.
Uses permitted by right. Land and buildings in the I-2 shall be used
for the following purposes only:
(1)
Automobile service stations, trailer coach sales, service garages,
automobile assembly, auto body shops, painting, upholstery reconditioning,
vehicle repair or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, welding
shops and the like.
(2)
Brick, pottery, tile or terra-cotta manufacturing.
(3)
Building materials storage, lumberyards, and lumber mills.
(4)
Blacksmith and machine shops, drop hammers and automatic screw machines.
(5)
Carpenter, cabinetmaking, furniture repair and upholstery, electrician,
metalworking, tinsmith, plumbing and gas, steam or hot water fitting
shops.
(6)
Contractor's equipment, sales, service, storage.
(7)
Mixing plants for concrete and asphalt.
(8)
Cleaning, dyeing and steam laundry.
(9)
Freight terminal and freight yards.
(10)
Metal fabrication, forging and boiler works.
(11)
Grain elevators and bulk storage of grain and similar products.
(12)
Railroad yards, repair shops, roundhouses and truck terminals.
(13)
Laboratories and lithographing.
(14)
Laundries for dry cleaning clothes and carpets.
(15)
Distribution plants, parcel delivery and service industries.
(16)
Manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of such
products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs,
pharmaceutical and food products.
(17)
Manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of articles
or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone,
cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, film, fur, glass,
hair, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or
stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarns and paint.
(18)
Manufacturing of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic
products, using only clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(19)
Lime kilns, flour mills, manufacture or processing of cement.
(20)
Printing and newspaper publishing.
(21)
Electrical, optical and textile manufacturing.
(22)
Mining and quarrying, including rock crushing, grinding, polishing
or cutting.
(23)
Business identification, billboards and signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article XVII of this chapter.
(24)
All uses similar to the above and not otherwise prohibited by
law.
(25)
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above
uses. However, no building, structure or portion thereof shall be
hereafter erected, structurally altered or converted for any use permitted
in any residential district except accessory buildings which are incidental
to the use of the land.
(26)
Academic clinical research centers in accordance with § 120-11W.
[Added 12-19-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-6, approved 12-19-2016]
(27)
Medical marijuana grower/processor in accordance with § 120-11X.
[Added 12-19-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-6, approved 12-19-2016]
C.
Uses permitted by special exception. The following uses may be permitted
as a special exception when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board:
(1)
Gas (illuminating or heating) manufacture and bulk storage of petroleum
and similar products may be permitted in this district subject to
the requirements of the district as modified herein:
(a)
Heat, glare, radiation, noise, vibration, fumes, odors or other
objectionable emissions.
[1]
Every use shall be operated so that it does not emit a dangerous
level of heat, glare, radiation, noise, vibration, fumes, odors or
other objectionable emission beyond any boundary of the site on which
the use is located.
(b)
Outdoor storage and waste disposal.
[1]
No material or waste shall be deposited upon a site in such
form or manner that they may be transferred off site by natural causes
or forces.
[2]
All materials or waste which might cause fumes or dust or which
constitute a fire hazard which may be edible by or otherwise attractive
to rodents shall be stored outside in closed containers.
[3]
The storage of explosives and blasting agents, the bulk storage
of flammable or combustible liquids and the bulk storage of liquefied
petroleum gas must comply with all local, state and federal distance
and other safety requirements applicable to the types of storage stated
in this subsection.
(c)
The proposed facility shall comply with all applicable federal
and state air, waste quality, environmental and regulatory permits
and requirements, including but not limited to the permits and approvals
listed below. Approval would be contingent on the granting of the
required permits and approvals.
(d)
Landscape requirements.
[1]
The landscape provisions in this chapter are intended to encourage
development of an attractive working environment for development,
to buffer objectionable views, to provide year-round landscape and
to provide for the mitigation of environmental impacts.
[2]
Suitable planting and landscaping shall be provided in areas
required as setback under the provisions of this chapter.
[3]
Landscaping is not required for side and rear property lines
behind the front building setback lines for property abutting other
industrially zoned property.
[4]
Parking shall not be permitted in the landscape setback abutting
any street.
[5]
Emergency plan of access. A written plan of access must be provided
by the owner in the event of emergency conditions, such as fire, assuming
the worse condition. The owner's plan of action for emergency access
to the building shall be submitted to the Borough, county, and the
Emergency Management Coordinator at the time of submission for a building
permit.
(2)
Electric and telephone public utility transmission and distribution facilities, including substations, water pumping stations reservoirs. Electric power stations, electric and telephone public utility transmission facilities. Such facilities are subject to the criteria set forth in § 120-47C(1) above.
(3)
Manufacture, processing, or storage of explosives, paint, petroleum or gasoline. Such facilities are subject to the criteria set forth in § 120-47C(1) above.
(4)
Foundries, steel mills, manufacture or processing of rubber products and plastics. Such facilities are subject to the criteria set forth in § 120-47C(1) above.
E.
Lot area requirements. There is no lot area requirement. Lot area
shall be determined on the basis of each development meeting yard
and coverage requirements contained in this article and chapter.
F.
Yard regulations.
(1)
Front yard: 30 feet, unless when a vacant lot is situated between
two lots each occupied by a principal building, which building extends
into the required front yard, the front yard of such vacant lot may
be the average depth of the front yards of the such two adjacent occupied
lots. Accessory structures shall not be permitted in the front yard.
(2)
Side yards: 10 feet.
(3)
Rear yard: 60 feet.
G.
Coverage regulations. Maximum lot coverage is 60%. At least 10% of
the lot area shall be covered with vegetative material.
H.
Vegetative coverage. Minimum vegetative coverage is 10%.
