Township of Antrim, PA Light Industrial (LI) District

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Editor's Note: Former Art. VII, Light Industrial District, which consisted of §§ 150-16 and 150-17, was renumbered as Art. XV, §§ 150-35 and 150-36, 7-10-2007 by Ord. No. 308.

The following uses shall be permitted in the Light Industrial District:

Mini warehousing and self-storage establishments.

Light manufacturing, which shall be defined to include uses limited to the assembly and production of fully-processed materials and subassemblies, including the following previously processed and manufactured materials: preformed metal castings or forgings, premolded plastics, bone, canvas, ceramics, cork, feathers, felt, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, organic shells, rubber and wood;

Precision manufacturing, which shall be defined to include and shall be limited to activities of a similar character as the manufacture of jewelry, clocks, watches, professional, scientific, electronic and optical instruments, and other products not requiring the large-scale processing of raw or semiprocessed materials;

Laboratory for research and testing not involving danger from fire or explosion;

Scientific research facilities, including laboratories, for research, testing and experimental uses or similar establishment for research or product development not involving danger from fire or explosion;

Dairy product processing, such as creamery, butter or cheese making, or a milk-bottling establishment;

Soft drink or other premixed nonalcoholic beverage bottling facilities not requiring the processing of raw or semiprocessed materials;

Monument production facilities not requiring metal casting or forging;

Wholesale business facilities;

Laundry, dry-cleaning and/or clothes-pressing plant, dying facilities, but not including the dying of fur or leather;

Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses of this section, including signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of this chapter;

The following uses when authorized as a conditional use by the Antrim Township Board of Supervisors and when located not less than 450 feet from a rural or residence district boundary line:

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Manufacture of beverages;

(2)

Manufacture of electrical appliances and supplies (including small equipment), silverware, tobacco products, toys;

(3)

Light metal processing as follows: finishing, plating, grinding, sharpening, polishing, cleaning, rustproofing and heat treatment, extrusion of small products, metal product fabrication and assembly, manufacture of light machinery, or other similar metal processes, none of which shall require the processing of semiprocessed or raw materials or the utilization of blast furnaces, smelting, alloying, or other basic processes of metal processing;

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Bulk processing of wood and lumber, not including pulp and fiber reduction and processing;

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Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted uses of this section.

Federal, state and local government offices and accessory uses, and other municipal essential services (i.e., fire, police, nonprofit recreational facilities, etc.).

[Added 1-25-2005 by Ord. No. 291]]