The “LI” Light Industrial District is intended for the purpose of allowing certain industrial uses which do not:

(1)   Require intensive land coverage.

(2)   Generate large volumes of vehicular traffic.

(3)   Create obnoxious sounds, glare, dust or odor.

Height and land coverage are controlled to insure compatibility with adjoining uses.

In District “LI”, no building or land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered or enlarged, which is arranged, intended or designed for other than one of the uses listed in section 1803.

(1)   Animal hospitals or clinics.

(2)   Bottling works.

(3)   Building material sales (except for ready-mix concrete and similar uses which emit dust, odor or smoke).

(4)   Carpenter, cabinet, plumbing or sheet metal shops.

(5)   Contractor's office and equipment storage yard, providing the storage yard is completely enclosed with a six foot solid fence or wall.

(6)   Dry cleaning and/or laundry plants.

(7)   Frozen food lockers.

(8)   Greenhouses and nurseries, retail and wholesale.

(9)   Light manufacturing operations, providing that such use is not noxious or offensive by reason of vibration or noise beyond the confines of the building or emission of dust, fumes, gas, odor or smoke.

(10) Machinery sales and storage lots.

(11) Monument sales.

(12) Motor vehicle and farm implement sales and storage.

(13) Public utility and public service uses as follows:

(a)   Substations.

(b)   Telephone exchanges, micro-wave towers, radio towers, television towers, telephone transmission buildings, electric power plants.

(c)   Public utility storage yards when the entire storage area is enclosed by at least a six foot wall or fence.

(14) Sign printing and manufacturing.

(15) Upholstery shops.

(16) warehouses.

(17) Wholesale merchandises sales and storage.

(1)   A building structure or use allowed in this district may occupy all that portion of the lot except for that area required for off-street parking and off-street loading and unloading and their access roads and as otherwise required in sections 1806 and 1807.

(2)   In the case where the required off-street parking and/or loading and unloading will be provided within the building or structure, then the structure may cover the entire lot except as otherwise required in section 1806.

(1)   When a building or structure is within 150 feet of a residential district zone, the building or structure shall not exceed 45 feet in height.

(2)   When a building or structure is more than 150 feet from a residential district zone, the building structure shall not exceed 60 feet in height.

(1)   Front Yard; A front yard of 30 feet shall be required for uses permitted in this district except as provided in the additional height, area and use regulations of this ordinance.

(2)   Side Yard and Rear Yard: No side yard or rear yard shall be required for uses in this district except where such use abuts a residential district zone, in which case there shall be required 15 feet of side and/or rear yard on the side of the lot and/or on the rear of the lot which abuts the residential district; the 15 feet shall contain a fence or wall and a shrub border to screen residential zoned property from the proposed use. The wall and shrub border shall be adequately maintained by the property owner.

(3)   Rear Yard: No rear yard shall be required in this district except where such rear yard abuts a residential district zone, in which case there shall be required 15 feet of rear yard.

(1)   Uses allowed in this district shall provide one off-street parking space for each 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. The parking spaces shall be provided within 200 feet from the proposed structure.

(2)   Plans and Approval Required. Plans showing layout and design of all required off-street parking areas shall be submitted and approved by the building official, prior to issuing a building permit. Before approving the parking layout, the building official shall satisfy himself or herself that the spaces provided are usable and meet standard design criteria. All required off-street parking areas, including access drives, shall be improved with asphalt, concrete or similar dust free surface and all parking spaces shall be clearly marked.

(3)   Performance: In lieu of construction of the required parking lot, the governing body may accept a corporate surety bond, cashier's check, escrow account or other like security in an amount to be fixed by the governing body and conditioned upon the actual completion of such work or improvement, within a specified time, and the governing body may enforce such bond by all equitable means.

(4)   Exceptions: Off-street parking requirements in this district may be waived by the governing body when it can be established that off-street parking, to satisfy the above requirements is provided or is available, either private or public, on adjoining property or within 150 feet of the proposed use. In determining whether or not sufficient off-street parking is available to satisfy the requirements of this section, vacant land or spaces allotted to other uses shall not be considered.

(1)   No loading or unloading operation shall be permitted in the right-of-way of any street or alley.

(2)   curb cuts for access to parking and loading and unloading areas shall be first approved by the city. In making application for such curb cuts, the applicant shall present his or her proposal in writing and provide the city with sufficient plans showing location, width and type surface proposed across the public right-of-way.

As permitted in Article 20, Sign Regulations.

As required in Article 21, Parking and Loading Regulations.