General industrial district
(a) Purpose and intent. The purpose of the general industrial district is to provide opportunities for a wide range of industrial activities. The intent is to concentrate industrial activities in areas where minimal infringement upon the character of established residential areas will result and where sanitary sewers and adequate transportation facilities are available or can be made available.
(b) General requirements. General requirements are as follows:
(1) Fences; screens. Where a lot in an industrial district adjoins a residential district or faces a residential district and wherever an industrial building or use, including required off-street parking spaces, is within 200 feet of the residential district, there shall be placed and maintained parallel to the common district boundary a wall or fence of solid appearance or a plant screen of not less than six feet in height which shall extend along and for the full length of the common zone boundary. In any required front or principal corner side yard or within 25 feet of the intersection of a driveway centerline and a street, the landscaping provisions of this chapter shall be met.
(2) Buffer requirements at Quonset Point. Notwithstanding subsection (b)(1) of this section, a vegetated buffer of no less than 25 feet in width shall be required along any lot line wherein an industrial district in the Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial Park adjoins a residential district. Such vegetation shall be no less than six feet in height and shall consist of species designed to provide protection from the visual and noise impact of industrial use.
(Ord. No. 98-7, 5-11-1998; Ord. No. 01-1, § 7, 2-12-2001)
Cross reference— Licenses, permits and miscellaneous business regulations, ch. 9.