This zone permits most industrial and manufacturing uses, including the compounding, assembling or treating of articles or materials, with the exception of heavy manufacturing and processing of raw materials. This district also permits commercial uses.

The following uses of land shall be permitted by right:
A. The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing or treating of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products, except the rendering and refining of fats and oils.

B. The manufacturing, compounding, assembling, treating or testing of products from previously prepared materials such as aluminum, bone, brass, cellophane, canvas. cloth, copper, cork, feathers, felt, fibers, fur, glass, hair, horns, leather, paint, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shells, rubber, tin, iron, steel, tobacco, wood or yarn.

C. Warehousing or wholesaling.

D. The manufacturing, only by electricity, or gas, of pottery figurines or other ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay.

E. Petroleum storage located at least 500 feet from any residentially zoned property.

F. Machine shop.

G. All permitted uses in commercial are allowed in industrial.

All of the above uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid, noncombustible wall with the exception of �G� above.

A. Special land uses are the same as commercial. All special land uses in commercial would be allowed in industrial.

A. Accessory uses incidental to a permitted principal use are permitted when located on the same lot.
B. Accessory buildings and structures shall meet the provisions of Article 4.

A. The use of land and buildings within this district shall meet the Schedule of District Regulations in Article 5, with the exception of �C� Single Family Dwelling which will meet the Schedule of District Regulations in Article 5 for Areas R-1 and R-2 Single Family Dwellings.

All uses permitted in this district shall meet the off-street parking requirements of Article 17.

13.07 SIGN REGULATIONS Signs shall be permitted only in accordance with Article 18.

13.08 GENERAL PROVISIONS All applicable provisions in Article 4 shall be met.

13.09 SITE PLAN REVIEW All proposed uses and structures shall be subject to the review and approval of a site plan in accordance with Article 21.

13.10 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS It shall be unlawful to carry on or permit to be carried on any activity or operation or use of any land, building, or equipment dangerous to human life or health or that produces irritants to the sensory perception greater than the measures herein established that are determined to be the maximum permissible hazards to humans or human activities.

A. Sound: The emission of measurable noises from the premises shall not exceed 70 decibels as measured at all lot lines, except that, where normal street traffic noises exceed such level, the measurable noise emanating from the premises may be equal to but may not exceed such traffic noise.

B. Vibration: All machinery shall be so mounted and operated as to prevent transmission of ground vibration exceeding a displacement of .003 root-mean-square of 1 inch r.m.s. measured at any lot line of its source.

C. Odor: The emission of noxious, odorous matter in such quantities as to be readily detectable at any point along lot lines, when diluted in the ratio of 1 volume of odorous air to 4 or more volumes of clean air or as to produce a public nuisance or hazard beyond lot lines, is prohibited.

D. Toxic Gases: The escape of, or emission of any gas that is injurious or destructive or explosive shall be unlawful and may be summarily caused to be abated except as required in the provisions of essential services.

E. Glare and Heat: Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed within an enclosure so as to completely obscure and shield such operation from direct view from any point along the lot line except during the period of construction of the facilities to be used and occupied.

F. Light: All lighting shall be arranged to reflect light away from adjoining properties in residential districts. There shall be no direct or sky-reflected glare exceeding 1 ½ foot candles or that would be damaging to the human eye, measured at the property line of the lot occupied by such use (except for the regulation provided by this sentence shall not apply to lights used at the entrance or exit or service drives leading to a parking lot).

G. Electromagnetic Radiation: The rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission as of the date of the adoption of this ordinance, with respect to the propagation and dissemination of electromagnetic radiation, are hereby made a part of this ordinance and shall be on file in the office of the zoning administrator.

H. Smoke, Dust, Dirt and Fly Ash: It shall be unlawful to discharge, into the atmosphere, from any single source of emission whatsoever, any air contaminator for a period or periods aggregating more than 2 minutes in any ½ hour that is:

1. As dark or darker in shade as that designated as No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart, as published by the United States Bureau of Mines, which is hereby made a part of this ordinance, shall be the standard. However, the Umbra scope readings of smoke densities may be used when correlated with the Ringelmann Chart. A Ringelmann chart shall be on file in the office of the zoning administrator.

2. Of such opacity as to obscure an observers view to a degree equal to or greater than the smoke described in Section 13.09, Paragraph H, No.1, above, except when the emission consists only of water vapor.

The quantity of gas-borne or airborne solids shall not exceed .2 of a grain per cubic foot of the carrying medium at a temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit. I. Drifted and Blown Material: The drifting of airborne transmission beyond the lot line of dust, particles or debris from any open stockpile shall be unlawful and may be summarily caused to be abated.

J. Radioactive Materials: Radioactive materials shall not be emitted so as to be unsafe to human health or life.

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