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I-1 Light Industrial
ARTICLE XIV - I-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
PREAMBLE
The I-1 Light Industrial Districts are designed so as to permit wholesale, warehousing, and
manufacturing facilities whose external, physical effects have a minimum detrimental effect on
the adjacent districts. It is the intent of this article to permit, in addition to specific uses
enumerated, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly, and/or
treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared material. The uses
permitted are those which meet a higher standard of restrictions than those imposed in the I-2
Zoning District, and shall be of a type other than those which produce hazardous material as
defined in the Fire Code.
SECTION 1400: PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED
All principal uses of land and buildings which are erected or structurally altered or occupied
shall be those specified in this article:
1. The manufacture, compounding, processing of food, and pharmaceuticals.
2. The manufacture, compounding, or assembly of products from previously prepared
materials, including but not limited to fabrics, glass, leather, paper, metal, or plastics.
3. Machine shops and metal finishing shops, including the incidental of casting of metal
products and alloying of furnace ready non-ferrous metals which are free of paint, oils or
other organic substances.
4. Crematories.
5. Retail uses which have an industrial character in terms of either their outdoor storage
requirements or activities such as: lumber yards or motor vehicle, boat, or implement
sales.
6. Storage yards.
7. Warehousing of materials not highly hazardous as defined in the Fire Code.
8. Veterinary clinics and outdoor kennels.
9. Lumber and planing mills.
10. Municipal buildings, public service buildings, auto equipment repair shops doing major
repair.
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11. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above Principal Uses
Permitted.
12. Uses similar to the above.
13. Non-accessory signs provided that the signs conform to Section 2308 (1)(f) of this Code.
SECTION 1401: SPECIAL LAND USES PERMITTED
The following uses, and their accessory buildings and accessory uses, shall be permitted as a
special land use if it is found to meet the standards outlined in Section 2332 of this Ordinance,
subject to the applicable conditions imposed by Ordinance and other reasonable conditions
imposed by the Planning Commission:
1. Railway or truck freight terminals located more than two hundred (200) feet from any
residential district.
2. Freestanding commercial radio, television, and similar transmission towers greater than
175 feet and their attendant facilities.
3. Paint manufacturing.
4. Accessory buildings and accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above
Special Land Uses Permitted.
5. Prisons and other similar correctional facilities.
6. Adult bookstores, adult indoor and outdoor motion picture theaters, and cabarets.
Recognizing that because of their nature some uses have objectionable operational
characteristics, especially when concentrated in small areas and recognizing that such
uses may have a harmful effect on adjacent areas, special regulation of these uses is
necessary to insure that these adverse effects will not contribute to the blighting or
downgrading of the surrounding neighborhood. These special regulations are as follows:
a. No such uses may be permitted in the I-1 Districts within one thousand (1,000)
feet if any residential district measured from the lot line of the location of the
proposed use.
b. The Planning Commission may waive this location provision if the following
findings are made:
i. That the proposed use will not be contrary to the public interest or
injurious to nearby properties and that the spirit and intent of this
Ordinance will be observed.
ii. That the character of the area shall be maintained.
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iii. That all applicable regulations of this Ordinance will be observed.
iv. That no other adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, or cabaret is
located within two thousand (2,000) feet of the proposed location.
c. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Planning Commission shall
not consider the waiver of the locational requirements as hereinabove set forth
until a petition shall have been filed with the City Clerk and verified as to
sufficiency. Such petition shall indicate approval of the proposed regulated use
by fifty-one (51) percent or more of the persons owning property within a radius
of one thousand (1,000) feet of the location of the proposed use as measured from
the lot line. The petitioner, or his agent, shall attempt to contact all eligible
property owners within this radius and must maintain a list of all addresses at
which no contact was made.
d. The petition hereafter required shall contain an affidavit signed by the party
circulating such petition attesting to the fact that the petition was circulated by
him and that the circulator personally witnessed the signatures on the petition and
that the same were affixed to the petition by the person whose name appeared
thereon, and that the circulator truly believes that the signers of such petition are
persons owning property within one thousand (1,000) feet of the premises
mentioned in said petition. Such petition shall also comply with other rules and
regulations as may be promulgated by the City Commission.
7. Uses similar to the above Special Land Uses Permitted.
SECTION 1402: PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS
Planned developments may be allowed by the Planning Commission under the procedural
guidelines of Section 2101. The intent of Planned Unit Developments in the I-1 Light Industrial
Districts is to allow mixed land uses, which are compatible to each other, while prohibiting uses
which would not be compatible or harmonious with other uses permitted in the I-1 District.
SECTION 1403: AREA AND BULK REQUIREMENTS [amended 4/00]
1. Minimum lot size: 21,780 sq. feet.
2. Maximum lot coverage:
Buildings: 85 %
Pavement: 25 %
3. Lot width: 100 feet (shall be measured at road frontage unless a cul-de-sac, then
measured from setback).
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4. Width to depth ratios: The depth of any lot(s) or parcel(s) shall not be more than three
(3) times longer its width.
5. Height limit: 3 stories or 50 feet
Height measurement: In the case of a principal building, the vertical distance measured
from the average finished grade to the highest point of the roof surface where the
building line abuts the front yard, except as follows: to the deck line of mansard roofs,
and the average height between eaves and the ridge of gable, hip, and gambrel roofs (see
Figure 2-2). If the ground is not entirely level, the grade shall be determined by
averaging the elevation of the ground for each face of the building (see Figure 2-4).
6. Front Setbacks: [amended 1/05]
Minimum:
Expressway or Arterial Street: 30 feet
Collector or Major Street: 20 feet
Minor Street: 10 feet
7. Rear setback: 10 feet
8. Setback from the ordinary high water mark or wetland: 75 feet (principal structures
only).
9. Side setbacks:
1-story: 10 feet and 20 feet
2-story: 15 feet and 25 feet
3-story: 20 feet and 30 feet
Note, setback measurement: All required setbacks shall be measured from the right-of-
way line to the nearest point of the determined drip line of buildings. [amended 10/02]
10. Zero lot line option: New principal buildings may be erected on the rear lot line and/or
one side lot line provided: [amended 10/02]
a. The building has an approved fire rating for zero-lot line development under the
building code.
b. The building has adequate fire access preserved pursuant to fire code
requirements.
c. The zero lot line side is not adjacent to a street.
d. A maintenance access easement is granted by the adjacent property owner and
recorded with the County Register of Deeds and provided to the zoning
administrator with the site plan or plot plan.
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e. It is not adjacent to wetlands, or waterfront.
11. All required side and rear setbacks shall be landscaped, greenbelt buffers, unless zero-lot-
line is employed for a structure or fire access. At least fifty percent of all required front
setbacks shall be landscaped and adjacent to the road right-of-way. An average minimum
greenbelt of 10 feet shall be maintained along each street frontage. [amended 12/01,
amended 10/02]
SECTION 1404: BUSINESS CONDUCT LIMITATION
1. All uses permitted under Section 1400 and 1401 shall be subject to all environmental
limitations imposed by this Section, other ordinances, statutes and governmental
regulations.
2. Casting of metal parts in shops other than foundries shall be limited so that not more than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the aggregate floor area may be used for the casting
process.
3. Crematories shall be located not less than two hundred (200) feet from a residential
district.
4. Storage yards shall be screened from any adjacent street or non-industrial district by an
obscuring fence. This shall not require that parking lots of motor vehicles, boats, or
implement sales be screened.
5. No property line of a lumber or planing mill shall be contiguous to the exterior boundary
of a Residential District.
6. Uses permitted in the I-1 District shall be those whose finished products are non-
hazardous as defined in the Fire Code.
7. Stamping machines, presses, and shears shall be dampened so as not to produce noises
and vibrations which conflict with the preamble of this Article.
8. Animals kept for slaughter shall be only that number which will be processed in one day.
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