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SectionTitle
§180-74 Purpose
§180-75 Applicability
§180-76 Principal permitted uses
§180-77 Conditional uses
§180-78 Accessory uses
§180-79 Height regulations
§180-80 Yard requirements

§180-74 Purpose

The purpose of the I-R Restricted Industrial District is to provide locations for the lighter
manufacturing processes; however, the district is not exclusive to most of the B-G District
uses. For the most part, the manufacturing is composed of processing or assembly of
previously processed materials.

§180-75 Applicability

The following regulations and applicable regulations contained in other articles shall be
permitted in the |-R Restricted Industrial District.

§180-76 Principal permitted uses

The principal permitted uses in this district shall be as follows:
A. Truck or motor freight terminals or warehouses.
B. Uses of a light industrial nature including, but not limited to, the following, provided that
such uses shall be subject to the distance requirements specified in § 180-16:
(1) Manufacture and assembly of electrical appliances, electronics and communication
equipment, professional, scientific and controlling instruments, and photographic or
optical products.
(10) Blacksmith, welding, machine or similar shops.
(11) Heliports.
(2) Manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise
from previously prepared materials such as bone, cloth, fur, cork, fibre, canvas,
leather, cellophane, paper, glass, plastics, horn, stone, shells, tobacco, wax,
textiles, yarns, wood and metals, including light steel or other light metal, light
metal mesh, pipe, rods, shapes, strips, wire or similar component parts.
(3) Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of cosmetics,
pharmaceuticals, and food products, except fish and meat products, sauerkraut,
vinegar, yeast, and the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
(4) Manufacture of musical instruments, novelties, and molded rubber products,
including tire manufacture, recapping and treading.
(5) Manufacture of pottery or other similar ceramic products using only previously
pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(6) Laboratories, chemical, physical and biological.
(7) Clothing and shoe manufacture.
(8) Carpet and rug cleaning plants.
(9) Petroleum products storage underground.
C. Agriculture for interim use.
D. Any use permitted and as regulated as a principal permitted use and a conditional use
in the B-L and B-G Districts, except dwellings, alcoholic package goods stores,
amusement arcades and except as may be modified in this section or as may be
hereinafter modified.
E. Any other use that is determined by the Board to be of the same general character as
the above permitted uses, and which would not be detrimental to the public health,
safety, or general welfare of the community, but not including any use which is
prohibited in the I-R District.
F. Industrial parks, subject to § 180-92.

§180-77 Conditional uses

The conditional uses requiring Board authorization in this district shall be as follows:
A. Alcoholic package goods stores as regulated in the B-G District.
B. The following uses when the location of such use shall have been authorized by the
Board, provided that such use shall be subject to two times the distance requirements
specified in § 180-16:
(1) Bituminous concrete mixing plants.
(10) Copperage works.
(11) Manufacture or processing of meat or food products.
(12) Manufacture of rayon or similar products.
(13) Manufacture of rubber or rubber products.
(14) Manufacture of starch, glucose, dextrin, or spice.
(15) Manufacture of wire or wire products.
(16) Fertilizer, potash, insecticide manufacture.
(2) Concrete and ceramic products manufacture, including ready-mixed concrete
plants.
(3) Contractors' equipment and storage yards.
(4) Petroleum products storage tanks above ground, any one of which has the
capacity in excess of 1,000 gallons, provided that all state and federal laws, as well
as National Fire Underwriters Codes, are complied with.
(5) Sawmills, commercial.
(6) Manufacture and assembly of aircraft, automobiles, or other vehicles.
(7) Manufacture and bottling of alcoholic beverages.
(8) Machine shops, structural steel fabricating.
(9) Coalyards.
C. Adult bookstores.
D. Adult theaters.
E. Communication towers, freestanding towers, guyed towers, communication tower
complexes, poles and transmission lines including amateur radio facilities as defined
pursuant to this chapter and as regulated as provided hereinafter.

§180-78 Accessory uses

The accessory uses allowed in this district shall be as follows:
A. Uses customarily accessory and incidental to any principal permitted use or authorized
conditional use, including a temporary office or dwelling associated with an industrial
use.

§180-79 Height regulations

No structure shall exceed 50 feet in height, except as provided in § 180-100.

§180-80 Yard requirements

The following requirements shall be observed, subject to the provisions of Article XV:
A. Front yard: for industrial buildings or structures, 30 feet.
B. Side yard: 10 feet, except adjoining an R District in which case not less than 30 feet.
C. Rear yard: 30 feet.