Light Industrial, symbolized by “IL”, the purpose of which is to provide for industrial uses with limited objectionable external effects in areas that are suitable for industrial development by reason of location, topography, soil conditions and the availability of adequate utilities and transportation systems.  The intent is to permit most manufacturing, wholesaling and warehousing activities that can be operated in a clean and quiet manner, subject only to those regulations necessary to prohibit congestion and for the protection of adjacent residential and business activities. 

 Section 5.801 Bullitt County Joint Planning & Zoning Commission Regulations

 a.         The following are examples of principal permitted uses in this “IL” zone:

                        1.         Assembly plants except automobile assembly plants or plants of a similar nature.                       

2.         Automobile repair, but no commercial wrecking, dismantling or salvage yard. 

3.         Auto service station

                        4.         Automobile, truck boat sales

                        5.         Bottling works 

6.         Builders’ supply store 

7.         Building and trades, including contractor’s yard and utilities storage yard 

                        8.                  Carpet cleaning, dry cleaning and dyeing, laundry  

                        9.                  Cold storage plant

                       10.              Commercial greenhouse

                       11.              Dairy products manufacture

                       12.              Fabrication, processing, packaging and/or manufacture of food products and condiments excluding fish products, fish, vinegar, yeast, and sauerkraut. 

                       13.              Fabrication, processing, packaging and/or manufacture of cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals and toiletries

                      14.              Fabrication, processing, packaging and/or manufacture of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fibre, horn, leather, paint, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, textiles, tobacco, wax, wood and yarn. 

                      15.              Fabrication, processing, packaging and/or manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, rubber or metal stamps

                      16.              Fabrication, processing, packaging and/or manufacture of ice, cold storage plant, bottling plant

                      17.              Farm implements and contractor equipment sales and services

                      18.              Foundry casting light weight nonferrous metals, or electric foundry, not causing noxious fumes or odors

                      19.              Fuel or coal company

                      20.              Furniture re-upholstering and repair

                      21.              Industrial research laboratories

                      22.              Inflammable liquids, underground storage only

                      23.              Lumber yards including incidental millwork: coal, brick, stone.

                      24.              Monument sales including incidental mechanical operations.

                      25.              Motor freight depot or trucking terminal: provided the truck entrances and exits are onto streets whose pavements width is at least thirty (30) feet between curbs. 

                      26.              Painting, varnishing shops

                      27.              Plumbing supply and contracting shops including storage yards

                      28.              Cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry; killing and dressing

                      29.              Public garages, motor vehicle and bicycle repair shops, auto paint and body shops

                      30.              Publishing and printing

                      31.              Railroad freight station, but not including switching, storage freight yards, siding or maintenance or fueling facilities. 

                      32.              Repair, rental and servicing for appliances and equipment 

                      33.              Sign contractor

                      34.              Stone grinding, dressing and cutting

                      35.              Storage yard for building supplies and equipment, food, fabrics, hardware and similar goods when located entirely within a building, provided such buildings shall not be used for wrecking or dismantling of motor vehicles

                      36.              Television and radio broadcasting towers

                      37.              Theater (drive-in)

                      38.              Tin and sheet metal shop 

                     39.              Tool and die shop, wrought iron shop, blacksmith ro machine shop, excluding punch presses over twenty tons rated capacity, drop hammers and screw machines

                     40.              Trailer rental and sales

                     41.              Truck terminal

                     42.              Used car lot

                     43.              Veterinary clinics or kennels, animal hospital, provided that all animals are housed in buildings or enclosures which are at least one hundred (100) feet from any residential zone.  

                    44.              Warehouses

                    45.              Wholesale distributors

                   46.              Uses similar to the above uses and any other manufacturing or industrial enterprise, operation or process whether making, assembling, repairing, buffing, finishing, plating, polishing, tempering, packing, shipping, or storing; provided, that any resulting cinders, dust, flashing, fumes, gas, noise, odor, or more detrimental to the neighborhood than the proposed use as determined by the Board of Adjustment as similar in character to one of the specified uses in this section.

                             b.                  Accessory uses and building permitted shall include those customarily incidental to the above permitted uses. 

                             c.                   A minimum lot size of one (1) acre shall be required for any industrial use in this “IL” Zone.  No lot shall be less than one hundred feet in width at the building line. 

                            d.                  The following setback and yard requirements shall apply:

                                         1.        Front Yards:     the front yard building setback line shall be a minimum of fifty (50) feet from any existing right-of-way line of any street or road.

                                         2.       Side Yards:      there shall be a minimum side yard on each side of any building or structure of twenty-five (25) feet measured from the side lot line to the nearest building.  Where said use abuts any residential zone, there shall be a side yard setback on the side abutting the residential district of fifty (50) feet.  Such space shall remain open and unoccupied by any building or accessory building or use, except that any portion of a side yard in excess of twenty-five (25) feet from a side property line may be used and included in the required parking space. 

                                     3.        Rear Yards:      there shall be a minimum rear yard as measured from the rear property line to the nearest building of twenty-five (25) feet, except where the property abuts a residential zone, then such rear yard shall not be less than fifty (50) feet wide.  Such space shall not be occupied by any building or accessory use. 

                        e.                   No building shall exceed three stories or forty (40) feet in height; provided an additional one foot of building height may be permitted for each foot the building is set back from all required yard lines. 

                         f.                    Special development standards: in as much as all industrial uses permitted in this industrial zone require a site plan review by the Planning Commission, or if they are applied for in another zone, they shall be subject to a review by the Board of Adjustment as an application for a conditional use permit, no zoning certificate shall be issued for a “IL” use, until the applicant shall have certified to the Administrative official and the reviewing body that:

        1.         The industrial activity will be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for automobile service stations, drive-in restaurants and theaters, equipment rental services, including automobiles, truck and trailers; truck and motor freight terminals and hauling services.

 

        2.         No noise from any operation conducted on the premises, either continuous or intermittent, shall cause any nuisances to the immediately neighboring properties so that there shall be no emission of odors or odor causing substances, nor vibrations which can be detected without the use of instruments at or beyond the lot lines.

                                3.              No emission of toxic or noxious matter, which is injurious to human health, comfort or enjoyment of life and property or to animal or plant life shall be permitted.  Where such emissions could be produced as a result of accident or equipment malfunction, adequate safeguards considered suitable for safe operation in the industry involved shall be taken. 

                                4.              Where the property lines separate an industrial zone from a residential zone, a visual and mechanical barrier, a minimum of six (6) feet in height, shall be provided along the common lot line, which may consist of any of the following:

                                                 An evergreen hedge used with a chain link fence, not less than three (3) feet in height.

                                                 A fence of a non-deteriorating material

Masonry wall

                                5.         All activities involving the use and/or storage and/or disposal of flammable liquids or materials which produce flammable or explosive vapors or gases shall be provided with adequate safety and protective devises against hazards of fire and explosion, as well as with adequate fire fighting and suppression equipment and devices standard to the industry involved.  All above ground storage shall be in enclosed fireproof vaults.  The storage utilization or manufacture of flammable radioactive and explosive materials and products which decompose by detonation is prohibited in the “IL” zone.   

        6.         The storage and utilization of flammable liquids, or of materials that produce flammable or explosive vapors or gases shall be permitted on any lot in accordance with the following table: