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I-2 General Industrial
ARTICLE XV - I-2 GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
PREAMBLE
The I-2 General Industrial Districts are established primarily for manufacturing, assembling, and
fabrication activities including large scale or specialized industrial operations whose external
physical effects may be felt to some degree by surrounding districts. The I-2 District is so
structured as to permit, in addition to I-1 Light Industrial District uses, the manufacturing,
processing and compounding of semifinished or finished products from raw materials.
SECTION 1500: PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED
In an I-2 General Industrial District, buildings and land may be used for one (1) or more of the
following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Article.
1. Any Principal Use Permitted in the I-1 District, subject to the requirements of this
District.
2. Primary metal industries, including foundries, smelting and refining of metal or alloys,
rolling and extruding plants.
3. Chemical plants whose manufacturing process produce products which are not hazardous
materials as defined in the Fire Code.
4. Paper and pulp manufacturing.
5. Power generating plants.
6. Junk yards and scrap metal processing.
7. Rubber manufacturing or the remanufacturing of rubber products.
8. Uses similar to the above principal uses.
9. Non-accessory signs provided that the signs conform to Section 2308(1) of this Code.
SECTION 1501: 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 applicable conditions imposed by Ordinance or other reasonable conditions imposed
by the Planning Commission:
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1. Any use with outside storage of aggregate, sand or other soil, or raw materials used in a
manufacturing process such as brick, tile manufacturing plants, asphalt and cement batch
plants.
2. Gasoline storage facilities.
3. Bulk storage or the production of acelylene, natural gas, and oxygen or other highly
explosive or toxic gases. The storage of such gases for use in a production process or of
an industry, business, or health care facility shall not be considered bulk storage.
4. Chemical plants whose manufacturing process produce products which are hazardous
materials as defined in the Fire Code.
5. Uses similar to the above Special Land uses.
SECTION 1502: 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-2 General
Industrial District is to allow mixed land uses, which are compatible to each other.
SECTION 1503: AREA AND BULK REQUIREMENTS [amended 4/00]
1. Minimum lot size: 43,560 sq. feet.
2. Maximum lot coverage:
Buildings: 85 %
Pavement: 25 %
3. Lot width: 150 feet (shall be measured at road frontage unless a cul-de-sac, then
measured from setback).
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).
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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.
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]
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