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4E.5 Heavy Industrial District (I-3)
4E.5.1 Purpose

The Heavy Industrial District (I-3) is established in order to provide sites for activities which involve major transportation terminals, and manufacturing facilities that have a greater impact on the surrounding area than industries found in the I-2 District. It is the intent of this district to provide an environment for industries that is unencumbered by nearby residential or commercial development.

4E.5.2 S.I.C. Manual References

See 4E.4.2

4E.5.3 Permitted Uses

  1. Accessory buildings
  2. Accessory uses
  3. Adult establishments
  4. Amateur Wireless Facility
  5. Building material sales and storage
  6. Caretakers dwellings
  7. Coal and wood lots
  8. Commercial laundries
  9. Exterminators
  10. Feed and grain storage
  11. Food processing; however, not to include slaughtering plants (SIC Major Group 20 excluding 2011, 2015)
  12. Foundries, fabrication plants, forging or metal casting
  13. Freight terminals (SIC Major Groups 40,41, and 42)
  14. Government facilities, not to include correctional facilities and jails
  15. Health clubs and athletic facilities as a subordinate activity, for use of employees of a principal use
  16. Heliports
  17. Junkyards
  18. Kennels
  19. Light industry
  20. Manufacturing, heavy (SIC Major Groups 20 - 39); not to include uses in Section 4E.5.5 that require a use permit
  21. Offices
  22. Parking as an independent use
  23. Passenger transportation terminals
  24. Public utility facilities with or without storage yards
  25. Publishing and printing establishments (SIC Major Group 27)
  26. Recreation facilities for employees
  27. Research and development with or without outside storage or operations
  28. Salvage and scrap yards (SIC Major Group 33)
  29. Satellite Dish Antennae
  30. Storage yards including the bulk storage of flammables
  31. Transfer stations, permanent
  32. Transfer stations, temporary subject to requirements in Section 14
  33. Treatment plants, water and sewe
  34. Vehicle repair shops with or without outside storage and operations
  35. Veterinary clinics
  36. Warehousing including miniwarehouses and personal storage facilities
  37. Wholesaling establishments (SIC Groups 50 and 52)
  38. Wireless Communication Facilities, concealed, concealed attached, co-located or combining on an existing, non-concealed attached, mitigating an existing
4E.5.4 Minor Special Uses Subject to Approval by the Board of Adjustment
  1. Day care facilities
  2. Rendering plants for poultry or animals
  3. Slaughter plants for poultry and animals
  4. Wireless Communication Facilities, non-concealed
4E.5.5 Major Special Uses Subject to Approval by the Governing Body
  1. Airports
  2. Broadcast Antennae
  3. Correctional facilities and jails
  4. Hazardous and nuclear material disposal and storage areas, when not an accessory use
  5. Incinerators
  6. Landfills
  7. Manufacture and storage of chemicals, when not an accessory use
  8. Manufacture and storage of explosives, when not an accessory use
  9. Quarries
  10. Recycling Centers
  11. Resource extraction (SIC Major Groups 10-14)
  12. Transfer Stations, except those transfer stations meeting the requirements of Section 4E.5.3
4E.5.6 Dimensional Requirements
1. Minimum lot size: 30,000 square feet
2. Minimum lot area: 150 feet
4E.5.7 Yard Dimensions
1. Street sides: a. Building setback - 40 feet
b. Parking areas and driveway setback - 20 feett
2. From internal sides:
(Buildings)		 a. From residentially zoned property - 50 feet
b. From non-residentially zoned property - 40 feet
3. All buffer and screening requirements found elsewhere in the ordinance must be met. Yard space may be used to meet buffer requirements.
4. Setback requirements from active railroads shall be one half of those stated above and may be further reduced by the Development Review Board upon finding that such reduction would not adversely affect surrounding properties.
4E.5.8 Height Limitations
1. Heights up to 50 feet are allowed with a 25 foot setback.
2. Heights up to 90 feet are allowed with a 50 foot setback
3. Heights up to 120 feet are allowed with a 75 foot setback
4. Heights over 120 feet up to a maximum of 145 feet are allowed with a 75 foot setback and issuance of a special use permit from the Board of Adjustment.
5. Towers, tanks and chimneys shall be exempt from this height limitation.
4E.5.9 Additional Requirements
1. Site plans shall be required for all development.
2. All buffer standards found elsewhere in this ordinance apply.
3. Storage yards shall be screened from view from off-site..
4. All driveways, parking areas, and pedestrian ways must be surfaced with a dust free, all weather surface.
5. If possible, all delivery and freight handling shall be screened from view off-site.
6. Sites shall be properly drained in accordance with other ordinances. Runoff to adjacent residential areas shall not exceed levels which existed prior to construction of any new development in this district.
7. Sites shall not be directly accessed from residential streets.
8. All noises, vibrations, emissions of smoke, dust, or gases shall be controlled so as not to be detrimental or cause a nuisance to nearby residential or commercial areas in conformance with standards found in Section 8. Any time prior to or after a building or site is occupied, control measures may be required in accordance with the appropriate governmental agencies which monitor public health and welfare.
9. Supplementary requirements of Section 7 may apply depending on the type of development.
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