Limited light industry

Map 38, Lots 5, 6, 7, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 are to be considered "Limited Light Industry" and are, in addition to other provisions of this ordinance, subject to the following regulations:

• 1. All structures erected on these lots shall not exceed thirty feet (30') or one (1) story in height. Uses permitted hereunder must be so located that each part thereof is set back at least the following distances:
  • a) Fifty feet (50') from any street or road on which the structure in question fronts.
  • b) Fifty feet (50') from any other property line.
• 2. Building lot coverage shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of total lot area.
• 3. Permitted uses. No lot within the district shall be used or occupied at any time for other than the purpose of "Limited Light Industrial Uses", which is defined as follows:
  • a) A limited light industrial use is one of such a nature and so designed, constructed and operated that there is no production of sound, heat or glare perceptible at any lot line, and which emits no vibration, smoke, dust, dirt, toxic or offensive odors or gases, electromagnetic or atomic radiation.
  • b) Without limiting the foregoing, uses specifically prohibited within these lots are residential and commercial usages of a retail nature, except facilities expressly designed for the use and benefit of the occupants of a site. In addition, no site shall be used for any industry whose primary business requires industrial sewage disposal facilities, unless the governing municipal and state bodies authorize the use of the available sewage disposal facilities. All liquid or solid wastes must be treated to conform with applicable standards of the Rhode Island Department of Health and any other regulations of any governing municipal or state agency.
• 4. All outside storage shall be screened from abutting properties by the erection and maintenance of an opaque fence, not less than six feet (6') in height or a double row of compact evergreen screen not less than six feet (6') in height.
• 5. (Reserved)

  Note: Effective 10-15-1997, Article VII Section F.5. is deleted. All parking requirements related to limited light industrial development are in Article IX. Deleted wording was: "Any and all parking, including parking for visitors, employees, or customers shall be "off street" and there shall be no less than one parking space for each person to be employed on a lot. All roads and parking areas shall have a minimum surfacing of asphaltic concrete or approved equivalent. Curbings shall be installed in all parking areas."

• 6. Any and all loading, unloading or deliveries shall be "off street" and the facilities therefor shall be located at the rear or sides of buildings which do not face the roadway. All loading and unloading areas shall have a minimum surfacing of asphaltic concrete with curbing. Curbings shall be installed in all loading and unloading areas.
• 7. The area between buildings and property lines is to be used either for open landscape and green areas, or for off-street parking.
• 8. Fences, walls and hedges may be permitted in any required yard, not to exceed the maximum height as follows:

  	LOCATION	MAXIMUM HEIGHT
  	Front and side yards	6 feet
  	Rear yards	10 feet
  	Hedges	No restrictions

• 9. Signs for advertising purposes shall be prohibited, except that one (1) sign flush with an exterior wall or a structure on each building site shall be permitted, as stipulated in Article IX. Section B. Signs. This sign shall indicate no information other than the name of the industry occupying the building site. Sign illumination shall not flash, blink, vary in intensity, revolve or otherwise be or appear to be in motion. Free standing information and directional signs shall be permitted upon approval of the Zoning Board of Review as stipulated in Article IX. Section B. Signs.
• 10. An accessory use which is clearly incidental and secondary to the principal permitted use of the premises or structure shall be allowed provided that such accessory use shall be located on the premises to which it applies and shall not be detrimental to or impair adjacent properties.
• 11. Property and buildings to be used for light manufacturing purposes shall be designed and laid out as to minimize disturbance to adjacent property by such features as buffer fences, planting, suitably located points of traffic ingress and egress, and areas for loading and parking.
• 12. Structures permitted above height requirements on these lots include roof structures for housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, fire or parapet walls, skylights, towers, steeples flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, wireless masts, antennas and water tanks, provided that no roof structure of any space above the height limit shall be allowed for the purpose of providing additional floor space.