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SECTION 19 - II I-I" LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT A. The Light Industrial District is established for the following purposes: 1. To provide sufficient space for the development of commercial establishments which would involve influences that would be objectionable in the other commercial districts due to noise from heavy service operations, large volumes of truck traffic, or some similar objection. 2. To accommodate wholesale and warehouse activities and industrial operations whose external physical effects are restricted to the area of the districts and in no manner affect in a detrimental way any of the surrounding districts. I 3. To permit, along with any specified uses, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared material as long as such use has no adverse external effects such as noise or odor which extend beyond the property lines of the site. 4. To protect against fire and explosions, pollution, and other environmental hazards. 5. To protect, as far as possible, against congestion. 6. To promote the most desirable uses of land and the direction of building development in accord with the Master Plan. 7. To promote stability of industrial development; to strengthen the economic base of the city; to protect the character of the district; to conserve the value of land and buildings; and to protect the city.s tax base. Permitted Uses I 8. To promote the most efficient use of city facilities and services. B. 1. All uses listed as permitted uses in the C District except for R-1, TH, R-2, MH, MR, and D District uses. 2. Drive-in businesses. 3. Gasoline service stations, automotive and other repair s~rvices or retail outlets where gasoline products are sold. 4. Lumberyards or contractor yards, farm equipment or other heavy equipment sales and service, farm products warehousing and storage, general warehousing and storage. 5. Motor vehicle transportation freight terminals. 6. Any wholesale trades or wholesale trade accessory to any permitted retail operation including: raw cotton, grain, hides, skins and raw furs, tobacco, wool or mohair, commercial or industrial machinery or synthetics. metals and minerals, petroleum bulk stations and terminals. 7. Those uses of a commercial retail or wholesale nature requiring large outdoor loading areas, generating heavy truck or rail traffic and requiring access to major transportation channels and/or creating influences not acceptable in the other commercial districts. I 8. Any of the following uses when the manufacturing, compounding, or processing is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building. That portion of the land used for open storage facilities for materials or equipment used in the manufacturing, compounding, -32-