The intent of the I-1 district is to accommodate limited or light industrial uses which by their nature and manner of development have no detrimental effect on their neighboring uses within or adjacent to the industrial area. Said uses are normally set within landscaped environments with well-designed buildings and totally enclosed operations. (Ord. 586 §1, 1984)

The following uses are permitted by right in the I-1 district, provided that they are conducted entirely within an enclosed structure and that all dust, fumes, odors, smoke, vapor, noise, lights, glare, and vibrations are confined to the lot on which the use is located:

(A) Administrative, office, insurance, and research facilities;

(B) Experimental or testing laboratories;

(C) Assembly or packaging of products from previously prepared materials;

(D) Manufacture of precision or electronic instruments, parts, or tools;

(E) Automobile parking areas;

(F) Vocational schools;

(G) Municipal facilities such as, but not limited to, water and wastewater treatment plants, police station, street and parks maintenance shops and yards (these uses are not required to be conducted entirely within an enclosed structure);

(H) Repair, maintenance, sales, and service of commodities manufactured, assembled, or packaged as the primary permitted use;

(I) Manufacture, processing, and packaging of medical and pharmaceutical supplies;

(J) Food service when secondary to the primary permitted use;

(K) Railroad facilities;

(L) Printing;

(M) Indoor entertainment and sports arenas;

(N) Warehouse, distribution, and wholesale uses when such uses are accessory to a permitted use;

(O) Accessory buildings and uses;

(P) Sexually oriented businesses; and

(Q) Churches and church facilities. (Ord. 586 §2, 1984; Ord. 1219 §4, 1997; Ord. 1876 §1, 2007)

The following uses are permitted by special review in the I-1 district:

(A) Warehouses, distribution, and wholesale uses of materials or products which are not manufactured, assembled, or packaged as the principal use;

(B) Commercial, business, retail sales, and other services;

(C) Planned industrial developments;

(D) Public and private utilities and facilities such as, but not limited to fire stations; ambulance service; and private security guard facilities as the principal use;

(E) Child day-care facilities;

(F) Helipads;

(G) Outdoor vehicle storage;

(H) Animal hospitals or kennels;

(I) Medical clinics;

(J) Gasoline sales;

(K) Retail sales, service, rental, repair, and manufacture of vehicles and machinery;

(L) Oil wells or gas wells; and

(M) Wireless communications towers. (Ord. 586 §3, 1984; Ord. 968 §12, 1993; Ord. 1194 §4, 1996; Ord. 1275 §2, 1997; Ord. 1514 §5, 2000)

The following are minimum lot, yard, and related requirements in the I-1 district:

(A) Twenty-five feet from any street right-of-way and twenty-five feet from any alley centerline;

(B) A landscaped area of at least ten feet in width shall be provided adjacent to any street abutting the commercial site;

(C) If across the street from a residential district, a landscaped area not less than twenty-five feet in width shall be provided paralleling the right-of-way;

(D) Curb cuts may be permitted through the landscaped area;

(E) When abutting a residential district, the yard between the zone district boundary and any building shall be not less than three times the height of the proposed building. In addition, a solid fence six feet high shall be constructed on the zone district boundary. The city manager or his or her designee may require an eight-foot-high solid fence if there is at least a two-foot difference in the average elevation of the lots on either side of the district boundary between the I-1 district and the residential district; and

(F) Large parking areas in excess of fifty spaces shall, in addition to the landscaping required along the street in the setback area, also be screened by a low decorative masonry wall of three to four feet in height or earth mounds of an equal height that are landscaped. Said screening to occur between the parking area and the street, unless the parking lot is not visible from the street. Landscaping shall also be provided within these large parking areas. This landscaped area shall represent not less than five percent of the total asphalted or paved parking area. The required setback landscaping shall not be considered as a part of the required parking area landscaping. (Ord. 149 Art. 14 §4, 1973; Ord. 669 §3, 1986)

Buildings in the I-1 district shall not exceed a height of forty feet unless approved by the city in accordance with chapter 17-30. (Ord. 149 Art. 14 §5, 1973)

Use of land in the I-1 district shall also conform to the parking, loading, signing, and other provisions of planned industrial developments. (Ord. 149 Art. 14 §6, 1973)