§ 82-282. IG industrial district.

(a)

Purpose. The IG industrial district is intended to accommodate those industrial uses which may not or cannot meet standards of the IL district yet do not have the objectionable influences of those uses found in the IH district. The IG district should not, where possible, be located in close proximity to a residential district.

(b)

Required conditions. Required conditions in the IG district are as follows:

(1)

All production, processing, servicing, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products shall take place within completely enclosed buildings; except, that outdoor storage of materials shall be within completely enclosed areas with a perimeter fence of not less than eight feet nor more than 12 feet in height.

(2)

All uses shall comply with the performance standards as cited in the Environmental Protection Act as set forth in 415 ILCS 5/1 et seq.

(3)

Wholesaling and warehousing; local cartage and express facilities (but not including motor freight terminals).

(c)

Permitted uses. Unless otherwise provided for in this chapter, no building or land may be used, and no buildings may be erected, converted, enlarged or structurally altered in the IG district except for one or more of the following uses:

(1)

Any use permitted in the IL district.

(2)

LP gas for fleet operations.

(d)

Special uses. The following uses may be allowed in the IG district by special use permit in accordance with the provisions of this chapter:

(1)

Any use which may be allowed as a special use in the IL district.

(2)

Junkyards and automobile wrecking yards, provided that they are contained within completely enclosed buildings or screened from view from adjacent property or rights-of-way.

(3)

Racetracks.

(4)

Railroad roundhouses, maintenance buildings and switching yards.

(5)

Sanitary landfill.

(6)

Water detention area.

(7)

Sexually oriented business, subject to the following special uses criteria:

a.

A sexually oriented business may not be operated within 1,000 feet of the following previously established uses:

1.

A church, synagogue or regular place of worship.

2.

A public or private elementary or secondary school.

3.

Any property legally used or zoned for residential purposes.

4.

A public park.

5.

A day care facility.

6.

Another sexually oriented business.

b.

For the purpose of this subsection, measurement shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of a church, school, park, residential use or other sexually oriented business, or to the nearest boundary of a residential zoning district.

c.

Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted to authorize or permit any activity or conduct prohibited by any local, state or federal law including, but not limited to, obscenity or prostitution.

(e)

Yards. No building or structure in the IG district shall hereafter be erected or structurally altered unless the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with such buildings:

(1)

Front. A front yard of at least 25 feet for buildings under 25 feet in height. For buildings exceeding 25 feet in height, the minimum front yard shall be increased by one foot for each two feet or fraction thereof by which the building height exceeds 25 feet, but in no case shall a front yard of more than 60 feet be required.

(2)

Side. A side yard equal to at least ten feet; except, on corner lots, where the side yard adjoins a street, the side yard shall be the same as the front yard.

(3)

Rear. A rear yard equal to at least ten feet except on a zoning lot abutting a residential district, a rear yard of at least 25 feet in depth is required.

(f)

Height. In the IG district, no building shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of 75 feet.

(Code 1974, § 22-47)

Cross reference

Businesses, ch. 26.