§ 214.155 PURPOSE.

The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a district designed and intended to accommodate; retail, service, production, processing, cleaning, repair, testing, wholesaling and warehousing uses; including the conversion of raw material and semi-finished material into finished products or products which are shipped for further processing or finishing; and, other miscellaneous uses and Use Variances which are most compatible with uses typically located with access to major highways, expressways and railroads. Care is taken to insure minimal land use and traffic conflicts and to provide adequate separation from residences.



§ 214.156 LIMITATIONS OF USE.

Permitted uses in the I-2 district are subject to the following additional general limitations: In an I-2 district, regulations covering limitations of use in an I-1 district as set forth in §214.142 shall apply.



§ 214.157 PERMITTED USES.

The following listed uses and no others are permitted uses in an I-2 district:

(A) Any use permitted in an I-1 district as set forth in § 214.143.

(B) Additional production, processing, cleaning, testing or repair as follows:

(1) Automobile wrecking.

(2) Asphalt and asphalt products.

(3) Charcoal, lampblack and fuel briquettes.

(4) Chemicals, including acetylene, aniline dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black and bone black, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrating of cotton and other materials, nitrates (manufactured and natural) of an explosive nature, potash, plastic materials and synthetic resins, pyroxylin, rayon yarn, hydrochloric, picric and sulfuric acids and derivatives.

(5) Coal, coke and tar products, including gas Industrial.

(6) Electric power and steam generating plants.

(7) Explosives, when not prohibited by other ordinances.

(8) Fertilizers.

(9) Film, photographic.

(10) Flour, feed and grain, milling and processing.


(11) Gelatin, glue and size, animal.

(12) Incineration or reduction of garbage, offal and dead animals.

(13) Linoleum and oil cloth.

(14) Magnesium foundries.

(15) Matches.

(16) Metal and metal ores (except precious and rare metals), reduction, refining, smelting and alloying.

(17) Paint, lacquer, shellac, varnishes, linseed oil and turpentine.

(18) Petroleum products, refining, such as gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oil, naphtha and liquified petroleum gases.

(19) Rubber, natural and synthetic.

(20) Soaps, including fat and oil rendering.

(21) Starch.

(22) Stock yards, slaughter houses and abattoirs.

(23) Wood, coal and bone distillation.

(24) Wood pulp and fiber, reduction and processing, including paper mill operations.

(25) Any other production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing and repair which conforms with performance standards hereinafter established for an I-2 district.

(C) Storage, including the following uses and materials and products:

(1) Goods used in or produced by Industrial activities permitted in this district.

(2) Explosives, subject to appropriate performance standards.

(3) Grain.

(4) Manure, peat and top soil, subject to appropriate performance standards.

(D) Miscellaneous uses as follows: Railroad freight terminals, motor freight terminals, railroad switching and classification yards, repair shops and roundhouses.



§ 214.158 USE VARIANCES.

In an I-2 district, Use Variances may be allowed in accordance with the limiting conditions and procedures as set forth in §214.319.



§ 214.159 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

(A) Noise. In an I-2 district, the emission of noise from any individual operation or plant (other than the operation of motor vehicles and other transportation facilities) so as to create a public nuisance beyond the boundaries of an individual operation or plant, is prohibited. The standards enumerated under § 214.145 (A) shall also apply to the I-2 district.

(B) Odorous matter. In an I-2 district, the performance standards governing odorous matter in an I-1 district, as set forth in § 214.145(B), shall apply.

(C) Vibrations. In an I-2 district, any process or equipment which produces intense earth-shaking vibrations, such as are created by heavy drop forges or heavy hydraulic surges, shall be set back at least three hundred (300) feet from the boundary from a residence or business district and at least one hundred (100) feet from the boundary of an I-1 district, unless such operation is controlled in such manner as to prevent transmission beyond property boundaries of earth-shaking vibrations perceptible without the aid of instruments.

(D) Toxic or noxious matter. In an I-2 district, the performance standards governing toxic or noxious matter in an I-1 district, as set forth in §214.145 (D), shall apply.

(E) Glare or heat. In an I-2 district, the performance standards governing glare or heat in an I-1 district, as set forth in § 214.145(E), shall apply.

(F) Fire and explosive hazards. In an I-2 district, fire and explosive hazards shall be controlled in the following manner:

(1) Activities involving the storage or manufacture of materials or products which decompose by detonation are not permitted in the I-2 district unless authorized by the fire chief of the Town, but in no case shall such uses be permitted closer than three hundred (300) feet to the boundary of another district. A partial list of such materials which decompose by detonation when they are in sufficient concentration includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(a) Acetylates.

(b) Ammonium nitrates.

(c) Anhydrous hydrazine.

(d) Azines.

(e) Black powder.

(f) Blasting gelatin.

(g) Chlorates.

(h) Cylonite or hexogen (trimethylene, trinitramine).

(I) Dinitrobenzene.

(j) Dinitroresorcinol.

(k) Dinitrotoluene.

(l) Dynamite.

(m) Fireworks

(n) Fulminates.

(o) Greek fire.

(p) Guanidine nitrate.

(q) Gun cotton (cellulose nitrate with nitrogen content in excess of 12.2% or pyroxylin.

(r) Hexane.

(s) Nitroglycerin.

(t) Perchlorates (when mixed with carbonaceous materials).

(u) Permanganates.

(v) Petn (pentaerythritoltetranitrate).

(w) Petryl.

(x) Picric acid.

(y) Tetryl (trinitrophenylmethyltramine).

(z) TNT (trinitrotoluene).

(2) The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from incombustible to moderate burning, as determined by the zoning administrator, is permitted.

(3) The storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products ranging from free or active burning to intensive burning, as determined by the zoning administrator, is permitted under the following conditions:

(a) All storage, utilization or manufacture of such materials or products shall be within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible exterior walls.

(b) All buildings or structures shall be set back at least forty (40) feet from property boundaries or, in lieu thereof, shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with standards for installation prescribed by the National Fire Protection Association.

(4) Materials or products which produce flammable or explosive vapors or gases under ordinary weather temperature shall not be permitted in this district, with the exception of the following which are permitted:

(a) Materials required for emergency or standby equipment.

(b) Materials used in secondary processes which are auxiliary to a principal operation, such as paint- spraying of finished products.

(c) Flammable liquids and oils stored, sold and used in conjunction with the operation of an automobile service station and customarily required or used in such operation.

(G) Air pollution. In an I-2 district, the performance standards governing air pollution in an I-1 district, as set forth in § 214145(G), shall apply.

(H) Water pollution. In an I-2 district, the performance standards governing water pollution in an I-1 district, as set forth in § 214.145(H), shall apply.

§214.160 PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.

(A) Maximum floor area ratio. In an I-2 district, the maximum floor area ratio of buildings and structures on a zoning lot shall not exceed 3.6.

(B) Minimum front, side, and rear yards. In an I-2 district, the regulations governing minimum front, side, and rear yards in an I-1 district, as set forth in §214.146 (B) through (D), shall apply.

(C) Regulations along residential district boundaries. In an I-2 district, the regulations governing residential district boundaries in an I-1 district, as set forth in § 214.146(E), shall apply.