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ARTICLE 1316
L-I LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
1316.01 Purpose
The purpose of this zoning district is to permit and encourage
modern light industrial development that will be so located and
designed as to constitute a harmonious and appropriate part of the
physical development of the City and to contribute to the soundness
of the economic base of the City.
1316.02 Use Regulations
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied
for any of the following purposes, and no other, subject to the
applicable provisions of Article 1318, "General Regulations",
and other applicable provisions of this and other City Ordinances.
(a) The following uses are permitted by right:
(1) Tilling of the soil and the keeping or raising of livestock
or poultry.
(2) Research laboratory or similar experimental, testing, or scientific
establishment.
(3) Headquarters or similar office building, including data processing
and record storage, and with offices involving only limited contact
with the general public.
(4) Publishing, printing, lithographing or similar establishment.
(5) Warehouse, wholesale, storage or distribution use.
(6) Manufacture, assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise
from the following previously prepared materials: plastics, bone,
canvas, cellophane, cork, feathers, fiber, glass, horn, leather
and fur (excluding tanning, curing and dyeing); precious or semi-precious
metals or stones, shell, textiles and tobacco.
(7) Manufacture of: ceramic products (using only previously pulverized
clay); novelty or small products from previously prepared paper
or cardboard (not including bulk processing); jewelry, clocks and
watches, medical, drafting, optical and other professional and scientific
instruments and equipment; musical instruments; small rubber products
and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic
processing); textiles (including spinning and weaving, but not including
wool scouring and pulling, or jute or burlap processing or reconditioning);
toys; wood products (excluding planing mills and bulk processing
of wood and lumber).
(8) Processing, packaging and treatment or compounding of such
products as cosmetics and toiletries, drugs, perfumes and pharmaceuticals.
(9) Manufacture and assembly of electrical or electronic devices;
home, commercial and industrial appliances and instruments, and
electrical supplies, including such equipment and supplies as: lighting
fixtures, fans, home radio and television receivers, electric switches,
lamps, washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners.
(10) Processing and combining of food products (except meat and
fish), including baking, canning, cooking, freezing, and mixing,
but not including manufacture of basic products from the raw state
or such processes as: drying, preserving or curing meats, manufacturing
sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast, fish, milling flour, roasting coffee
or spices.
(11) Light metal processes, such as: metal machining, finishing,
grinding, and polishing, metal stamping and extrusion of small products,
(such as costume jewelry and kitchen utensils); and the manufacture
of light metal products, tools and hardware, (such as hand tools,
bolts, nuts).
(12) Bottling, packing or packaging establishment.
(13) Central heating plant.
(14) Manufacture of paper or cardboard boxes, envelopes, containers
and novelties from previously prepared paper or cardboard.
(15) Dwelling quarters for watchmen and caretakers employed on
the premises, provided the quarters are located within the main
building.
(16) Personal service, convenience and indoor recreational facilities
planned for the use of the employees of the district, and only incidentally
for the general public, such as branch bank, branch post office,
drugstore, restaurant, variety store, barber shop, beauty parlor,
offices and bowling alley, if developed as an integrated service
center.
(17) Outdoor recreational facilities for the primary use of employees
of the L-I District.
(18) Public park or public recreation facility.
(19) Public or private utility installation.
[Section 1316.02(a)(19) was amended by Ordinance No. 4190 on May
21, 2003]
(20) Repair garage.
(21) Service station.
(22) Motor vehicle sales and service agency.
(23) Municipal uses such as, but not limited to, municipal buildings,
municipal garages, municipal storage areas, fire stations, and police
stations.
(24) Commercial Communication Towers and Antennas.
[See Section 1318.28A]
(b) None of the permitted uses for this district are required
to have conditional approval.
(c) The following uses and their customary accessory uses, when
authorized by special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, may
be permitted in accord with Article 1325:
(1) An industrial use of the same general character as the uses
permitted, or an industrial use normally considered to create nuisances
provided that the application for special exception shall include
evidence satisfactory to the Zoning Hearing Board that the use will
be conducted without creating nuisance conditions beyond the limits
of its lot by reason of the emission of smoke, dust, odor, and other
air pollutants, noise, vibration, light, electrical disturbance,
or water pollutants. Such evidence may include the proposed use
of proven special structural or technological innovations. In no
case, however, shall any of the following uses or any uses substantially
similar thereto be permitted: abattoir, incineration or reduction
of garbage (except by City government agencies); leather processing;
the manufacture of asphalt, cement, explosives, ferrous and non-ferrous
metal or wood smelting or reduction; oilcloth, paint, paper, soap;
cinder block and petroleum refining, storage or distribution.
(d) Accessory uses customary with and incidental to any aforesaid
use in this Article are permitted unless otherwise excluded by these
regulations.
1316.03 Area, Yard and Building Regulations
(See Article 1318).
1316.04 Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations
(See Article 1319).
1316.05 Sign Regulations
(See Article 1320).
1316.06 Site Plan Review Requirements
(See Article 1321).
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