Sec. 22-230, 22-230.1, 22-230.2, 22-230.3, 22-230.4, 22-230.5
Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 21,780,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (500 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- limited access highway interchange
- Applies within
- 7,920 ft
- Geographic extent
- Located within one and one-half miles of an interchange of a limited access highway, and be served by dual railroad access.
Uses
Permitted by right3
- Agriculture
- Forestry
- Public utility booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and towers, pipes, meters and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, and water and sewage installations
Conditional / special use7
- The manufacturing or assembly of electrical appliances, instruments and devices, communication equipment, professional scientific and control instrumentation and photographic and optical goods
- Melting, reprocessing, rolling, drawing, extruding, casting, and forging of ferrous and nonferrous metals and plastics
- Commercial and service facilities whose function(s) are solely oriented to the needs of the industries located in the industrial district
- Underground facilities for pipelines, electrical power and energy, distribution lines, telephone and telegraph
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises
- Telecommunications tower
- Public utility generating facility
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting shielding
Parking lot or loading area lights, if located near screening strips adjacent to residential or agricultural districts shall be shielded to direct lights away from adjacent areas.
Other
- Enclosure of principal uses
All principal uses shall be conducted within a fully enclosed building with storage of raw, in process, or waste material, either undercover or within a containment area designed to capture fluids.
- Interior property line buffer50 ft
A 50-foot buffer shall be provided along both sides of all interior property lines.
- Landscaped buffer depth100 ft
A landscaped buffer at least 100 feet in depth shall be provided along the perimeter of the district, and a 50-foot buffer shall be provided along both sides of all interior property lines.
- Underground utilities
All utility lines such as electric, gas, telephone, CATV, or other similar lines shall be installed underground except in those situations in which the planning department determines such a requirement is not feasible or practical.
From the ordinance
The planned industrial district is intended to permit, in accordance with the comprehensive plan the development of a planned industrial district containing not less than 500 contiguous acres in those areas of the county served by public sanitary sewer and water supply. The district shall be located within one and one-half miles of an interchange of a limited access highway... Building shall not exceed 90 feet in height... The minimum district size shall be 500 acres... The maximum ground coverage of any lot by structure, including accessory structures, shall not exceed 40 percent of the total area of the lot.