In accordance with the recommendations and policies
in the Town Master Plan, this district is intended to provide in appropriate
locations for manufacturing, processing and assembly activities, as
well as wholesale and warehousing activities and related supportive
activities, which will not have any unreasonable adverse impacts on
surrounding land uses.
In a Light Industrial IG District, no building
or premises shall be used, and no building or part of a building shall
be erected or altered, which is arranged, intended or designed to
be used, in whole or in part, for any purpose except the following:
A. Permitted uses shall be as follows:
(1) Business, professional and governmental offices.
(2) Office buildings for business, professional and medical
use, such as attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers, dentists
and doctors, including all medical specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists,
therapists and chiropractors, banks, insurance agents and real estate
brokers.
B. Conditional uses shall be permitted as follows, subject to approval by the Planning Board in accordance with Chapter
217, Article
II, of these regulations, and subject to the specific requirements below and elsewhere in these regulations:
(1) Manufacturing, processing and assembly activities,
provided that such activities are so designed, constructed and enclosed
that there will be no observable external evidences thereof other
than loading and unloading functions which shall be fully screened
from all adjacent residential areas, provided that such uses are subject
to the performance standards for this district.
(2) Research, design and development laboratories, subject
to the performance standards in the TOP District.
(3) Public utility structures.
(4) Wholesale storage and warehousing, provided that such
uses shall be operated in fully enclosed structures or within an area
enclosed by a poled wall or fence.
(5) Lumber and building equipment sales, storage and service,
provided that such uses shall be operated in fully enclosed structures
or within an area enclosed by a solid wall or fence.
(6) Truck terminals, provided that such uses shall be
operated fully within enclosed structures or within an area enclosed
by solid wall or fence.
(7) Wholesale and retail nurseries, including the sale
of related allied products.
(8) Gasoline or filling stations, subject to the following
special requirements:
(a)
The minimum lot area shall be 15,000 square
feet and the minimum frontage shall be 100 feet for a gas station
without service bays, and the minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet
and the minimum frontage shall be 100 feet for a gas station with
service bays. No building or part thereof shall be erected nearer
than 60 feet to any street line nor 20 feet to any lot line.
(b)
Any gas station which is adjacent to a residential
district shall provide a suitable buffer between the gas station and
the residential district which consists of a fifteen-foot-wide landscaped
area with a four-foot-high masonry or wood wall and planting of material
of sufficient height to provide an effective screen, or a twenty-foot-wide
landscaped area with an earth mound with a minimum height of four
feet.
(c)
Entrance and exit driveways shall have an unrestricted
width of not less than 12 feet, nor more than 20 feet, shall be located
not nearer than 10 feet to any lot line and shall be so laid out as
to avoid the necessity of any vehicle backing into any public right-of-way.
(d)
Vehicle lifts or pits, dismantled automobiles,
all parts or supplies, goods, materials, refuse, garbage and debris
shall be located within a building enclosed on all sides.
(e)
All services or repair of motor vehicles shall
be conducted in a building enclosed on all sides. This requirement
shall not be construed to mean that the door to any repair shop must
be kept closed at all times.
(f)
Gasoline or flammable liquids in bulk shall
be stored fully underground, not nearer than 10 feet to any street
line nor 35 feet to any lot line.
(g)
No gasoline pumps shall be located nearer than
20 feet from any street line or lot line.
(h)
No building permit shall be issued for any such
establishment within a distance of 200 feet of any school, church,
hospital or other place of public assembly designed for occupancy
by more than 50 persons, the said distance to be measured in a straight
line between the nearest points of each of the lots or premises, regardless
of the distance where either premises are located.
(i)
No gasoline or filling station or any commercial
sale of gasoline shall be permitted to be established on any lot within
a distance of 1,000 feet of any existing gasoline or filling station,
nor any lot for which a building permit has been issued for the erection
of such a station.
(j)
The gasoline or filling station must be occupied
and operative within 60 days after completion of construction.
(k)
The dispensing of gasoline and other flammable
liquids to the public shall be governed by the following additional
requirements:
[1]
Dispensing shall be under supervision of a regular
attendant whose primary function shall be to supervise, observe and
control the dispensing of the flammable liquids. Such regular attendant
shall not be less than 16 years of age, physically and mentally competent
to act in an emergency and shall be fully instructed regarding safety
precautions and the approved standards of safety in the handling of
gasoline and other flammable liquids.
[2]
When the dispensing of flammable liquids is
done by a person other than the regular attendant, the dispensing
device nozzle shall be an Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., listed
automatic-closing type without a hold-open latch. Emergency controls
shall be installed at a location acceptable to the Building Inspector
and Fire Marshal, but not over 100 feet from the dispensing device.
Instructions for the operation of dispensers shall be conspicuously
posted on the dispensing device.
(9) Child and adult day-care centers, provided that the
Planning Board has made findings that such centers are compatible
with the surrounding existing uses and known proposed development
and that the centers shall be suitably screened by landscaping and
buffering from adjacent uses and that the location of these centers
are consistent with health, safety and welfare of the occupants of
these centers and that issues such as traffic, noise, and other adverse
impacts have been properly mitigated.
(10)
Construction and building contractors.
[Added 11-25-2008 by L.L. No. 6-2008]
C. Accessory uses shall be as follows:
(1) Clinics, cafeterias and recreational facilities for
the exclusive use of employees of the principal use. Any recreational
facilities that are exterior to buildings shall be used only between
the time of sunrise and sunset and shall not be lighted. No such exterior
recreational facility shall be closer than 100 feet to any boundary
of any residential district.
(2) Garages, pump houses, water towers, storage tanks
for other liquid materials and fire protection monitors.
(3) Fully enclosed warehouse and storage facilities.
(4) Gas pumps associated with truck terminals, provided
that they are for the exclusive use of the truck terminal and not
for sale to the general public.
(5) Any outdoor storage of equipment and/or material must
be in the rear yard and fully enclosed by a fence of sufficient height
to shield the storage area from view from the street or adjacent uses.
No outdoor storage shall be allowed in any setback or landscaped areas.
All equipment which is designed to lift, dump or tow, must be reduced
to the lowest possible elevation, if they are stored outdoors overnight.
No outside storage shall be allowed adjacent to residential districts.
D. Prohibited uses. The following uses are prohibited:
(2) Any use which creates any dangerous, injurious, noxious
or otherwise objectionable fire, explosion or other hazard; noise
or vibration; smoke, dust, odor or other form of air pollution; heat,
cold, dampness, electromagnetic or other disturbances; glare; liquid
or solid refuse or waste; or any other substance, condition or element,
in such manner or in such amount as to, in the opinion of the Planning
Board, adversely affect the use of the surrounding area or adjoining
premises.
All changes of use or expansion of permitted
uses within this district must apply for a certificate of compliance
from the Building Inspector or designee. This administrative review
shall determine if all the requirements of these regulations are met
for the new or expanded use. The Building Inspector or designee shall
have the right to any additional information necessary to make his
determination. The Building Inspector or designee is authorized to
grant a certificate of compliance only for those applications which
meet all the requirements of these regulations and when any previous
Town conditions, if applicable, have been met. A report of all certificates
of compliance applications and the outcome of the administrative review
shall be routinely given to the Planning Board.
[Amended 4-13-2005 by L.L. No. 4-2005]
All uses shall be subject to all applicable off-street parking and loading requirements set forth in Chapter
205, Articles
II and
III.
See the sign regulations in Chapter
207, Article
VI, of these regulations.
[Added 7-23-1997 by L.L. No. 5-1997]
See the communication facilities regulations in Chapter
207, Articles
VIII and
I, §
207-3D, of these regulations.
All proposed development shall be referred to
the Architectural Review Board for an advisory report prior to the
issuance of the building permit. This review should include an analysis
of all facades, exterior building materials and signage.
All proposed development which has a direct
impact on open space, buffers, linkages or landscaping shall be referred
to the Conservation Board for an advisory report prior to final site
plan approval by the Planning Board.
See the access control regulations in Chapter
207, Article
IV, of these regulations.
See the landscaping regulations in Chapter
207, Article
V, of these regulations.
See the supplementary regulations in Chapter
207, Article
I, §
207-3.
All uses in the IG Light Industrial District shall be subject to site plan approval by the Planning Board, in accordance with the requirements of Chapter
217, Article
III, of these regulations.