Appendix D. Industry Districts

D. INDUSTRY DISTRICTS

1. I-A districts: Industry-agriculture districts.

These districts comprise lands lying within areas set forth on the master plan for industrial development. Existing land uses therein are mainly agriculture, livestock raising or vacant, and these regulations are designed to protect the essentially open character of the districts by prohibiting the establishment of uses that are unsuited or unrelated to the district as a whole. It is intended that a subdivision of land within these areas shall be approved and proper zoning action be executed before land uses other than those specified herein shall be permitted.

a. Permitted uses. In I-A districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:

Accessory use

Bed and breakfast

Dwelling, one-family

Density restriction: Restrictions on the number of single-family dwellings per parcel of land shall not exceed that allowed by Sanitary Code for the State of Louisiana, or other applicable state law.

Extraction of oil, gas or other natural mineral deposits

Farming and truck gardening; need not be enclosed within structure

Golf course, but not including commercial miniature course or commercial driving range; need not be enclosed within structure

Home occupation

Mobile/manufactured home

Name plate; need not be enclosed within structure

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Park or playground (public) including recreation center, need not be enclosed within structure

(2) Uses requiring planning commission approval. The uses listed below are permitted upon approval of the location and site plan thereof by the planning commission as being appropriate with regard to transportation and access, water supply, waste disposal, fire and police protection, and other public facilities, as not causing undue traffic congestion or creating a traffic hazard, and as being in harmony with the orderly and appropriate development of the district in which the use is located:

Fire station

Pipe line or electric transmission line; need not be enclosed within structure

Railroad right-of-way, but not including shops, yards, and team tracks; need not be enclosed within structure

Revival, church

School, elementary and/or secondary, meeting all requirements of the compulsory education laws of the State of Louisiana

University or college (nonprofit)

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Water or sewage pumping station

(3) Special exception uses. These uses are declared to possess such characteristics of unique or special form that each specific use shall be considered an individual case and shall be subject to approval of the police jury after a public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission:

Airport; need not be enclosed within structure

Airport and dusting service; need not be enclosed within structure

Cemetery; need not be enclosed within structure

Church, including parish house, community house, and educational buildings

Correctional, detention, or penal institution

Electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a wall or fence at least ten (10) feet high

Livestock and poultry raising, including dairy; need not be enclosed within structure

Lumbering and lumber industry activities

Radio and television broadcasting transmitter, but not including studio

b. Building site area. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum building site area shall be:

Square Feet
For a one-family dwelling .....	7,200
For any other permitted use .....	10,000

 

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be erected or altered to exceed thirty-five (35) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 ft.

Side yard .....10 ft.

Rear yard .....25 ft.

2. I-1 districts: Light industry districts.

These districts are composed of land and structures used for light manufacturing or wholesaling, or suitable for such uses, where the use and its operation do not directly adversely affect nearby residential and business uses. These districts are usually separated from residential areas by business areas or by natural barriers. The district regulations are designed to allow a wide range of industrial activities subject to limitations designed to protect nearby residential and business districts.

a. Permitted uses. In the I-1 districts only the following uses are permitted:

(1) [Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:]

Accessory use

Air conditioning sales and service

Airport and dusting service; need not be enclosed within structure

Airport; need not be enclosed within structure

Armory

Automobile and truck body repair

Automobile and truck laundry, including steam cleaning

Automobile and truck maintenance shops and garages

Automobile and truck sales and/or repair, but not including commercial wrecking, dismantling, or auto salvage yard; need not be enclosed within structure provided the unenclosed part shall comply with the requirements for maintenance of off-street parking facilities

Automobile storage (commercial); need not be enclosed within structure

Aviary; need not be enclosed within structure

Bakery, wholesale

Barber and beauty supplies and equipment sales

Battery manufacture

Beverage manufacture (not including alcoholic)

Brooms and brushes manufacture

Canvas products manufacture

Carnival or circus; as a temporary use on permit issued by the zoning administrator, such permit to be good for a period not exceeding three (3) days and renewal for not more than three (3) such periods; need not be enclosed within structure

Carting, express, crating, hauling and storage

Clothing manufacture

Coffee roasting

Cold storage plant

Concrete and concrete products manufacture; need not be enclosed within structure

Contractor's storage yard for vehicles, equipment, materials and/or supplies; need not be enclosed within structure

Cosmetics (compounding only)

Creamery

Dairy equipment sales

Dog pound; need not be enclosed within structure

Drug manufacture

Dry cleaning

Dry goods, wholesale

Electric repair shop

Electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure

Electroplating

Fairgrounds, baseball park or stadium; need not be enclosed within structure

Farm equipment and supplies sale

Farming and truck gardening; need not be enclosed within structure

Feed store

Fire station

Fixture sales

Food locker plant, renting only individual lockers for home customer storage of food; cutting and packaging of meats and game permitted, but not including any slaughtering or eviscerating thereof

Food products manufacture

Food products, wholesale storage and sales

Foundry

Freight depot, railway and/or truck

Frozen food plant

Fruit and produce, wholesale

Gas regulator station

Glass products manufacture (from glass stock)

Hardware manufacture

Hatchery

Hosiery mill

Ice cream manufacture

Ice manufacture

Laboratory

Laundry, linen supply, or diaper service

Lumber yard and building materials; need not be enclosed within structure

Machine shop

Machinery, tools, and construction equipment, sales and service

Mail order house

Mattress manufacture and rebuilding

Metal sharpening

Millinery manufacture

Millwork and similar wood products manufacture

Mobile/manufactured homes

Novelty and souvenir manufacture

Office

Office equipment and supplies manufacture

Off-premise outdoor advertising

On-premise advertisement

Oil well supplies and machinery; need not be enclosed within structure

Optical goods, wholesale

Packing and gasket manufacture

Painting and decorating contractor

Paper products manufacture

Paper supplies, wholesale

Passenger depot, railway or bus

Pipe line or electric transmission line

Pipe storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Plumbing shops

Printing, publishing, and allied industries

Railroad facilities, except shops; need not be enclosed within structure

Restaurant supplies sales

Revival, church (temporary); as a temporary use on permit issued by the zoning administrator, such permit to be good for a period not exceeding one (1) week and renewal for not more than three (3) such periods

Roofing and sheet metal shop

Rug cleaning

Sand and gravel storage yard; need not be enclosed within structure

Seed store

Shoe manufacture

Shoe store, wholesale

Sign shop

Sporting goods store, wholesale

Telephone exchange, including shops and garages

Toy manufacture

Trailer sales; need not be enclosed within structure

Trade school

Transit vehicle storage and servicing; need not be enclosed within structure

Venetian blind and metal awning fabrication and cleaning

Water distillation

Water or sewage pumping station

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Welding shop

Well drilling company

Wholesale and warehousing

(2) Uses requiring planning commission approval. The uses listed below are permitted upon approval of location and site plan thereof by the planning commission as being appropriate with regard to transportation and access, water supply, waste disposal, fire and police protection, and other public facilities, as not causing undue traffic congestion or creating a traffic hazard, and as being in harmony with the orderly and appropriate development of the district in which the use is located:

Theater, outdoor; need not be enclosed within structure

Trailer court; must meet the following requirements: Water, sewerage and electric power connections for each trailer unit; a site providing a minimum of three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet per trailer site; and adequate plan for traffic circulation on the site. Yard requirements for each trailer unit as follows:

       Front yard .....20 feet

       Side yard .....5 feet

       Rear yard .....25 feet

b. Building site area. The minimum building site area shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed forty-five (45) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 feet

Side yard .....10 feet

Rear yard .....25 feet

3. I-2 districts: Heavy industry districts.

These districts are composed of land and structures used for heavy manufacturing and related activities or suitable for such uses. Located for convenient access from existing and future arterial thoroughfares and railway lines, these districts are in many instances separated from residential areas by business or light industry areas or by natural barriers; where they are adjacent to residential areas some type of artificial separation may be required. The district regulations are designed to permit the development of the district of almost any industrial uses, subject to the minimum regulations necessary for the mutual protection of the uses.

a. Permitted uses. In the I-2 districts only the following uses are permitted.

(1) Uses by right. The uses listed below are permitted subject to the conditions specified:

Abrasives manufacture

Accessory use

Acetylene gas manufacture and/or storage

Air products manufacture

Airport and dusting service; need not be enclosed within structure

Airport; need not be enclosed within structure

Alcohol distillation and/or storage

Ammonia, bleaching powder, and chlorine manufacture

Armory

Asbestos products manufacture

Asphalt products manufacture

Automobile and truck body manufacture

Automobile and truck body repair

Automobile manufacture

Automobile storage (commercial); need not be enclosed within structure

Aviary; need not be enclosed within structure

Battery manufacture

Boiler and tank works

Brewery

Carnival or circus; as a temporary use on permit issued by the zoning administrator, such permit to be good for a period not exceeding three (3) days and renewal for not more than three (3) such periods; need not be enclosed within structure

Carting, express, crating, hauling and storage

Caustic soda manufacture

Celluloid manufacture

Chemicals (heavy or industrial) manufacture and/or processing

Clothing manufacture

Cold storage plant

Concrete and concrete products manufacture; need not be enclosed within structure

Cotton compress

Cotton ginning and baling

Contractors storage yard for vehicles, equipment, materials and/or supplies

Detergents, soaps, and by-products using animal fat, manufacture

Diesel engine repair

Disinfectant, insecticide, or poison manufacture

Dog pound; need not be enclosed within structure

Drug manufacture

Dyestuff manufacture

Electric power generating station

Electric substation; need not be enclosed within structure

Electroplating

Farming and truck gardening; need not be enclosed within structure

Felt manufacture

Fire station

Food products manufacture

Food products, wholesale storage and sales

Foundry

Freight depot, railway and/or truck

Frozen food plant

Fungicides manufacture

Glass manufacture

Glass products manufacture (from glass stock)

Grain drying or feed manufacture from refuse, mash, or grain

Grain milling, storage and elevators

Graphite manufacture

Hair products manufacture or processing

Hardware manufacturing

Hosiery mill

Ice manufacture

Incinerator

Insulation manufacture or fabrication

Laboratory

Linoleum manufacture

Lumber yard and building materials; need not be enclosed within structure

Machine shop

Metal products fabrication

Millwork and similar wood products manufacture

Mobile/manufactured homes

Office

Office equipment and supplies manufacture

Off-premise outdoor advertising

Oil well supplies and machinery; need not be enclosed within structure

Oils and fats (animal and vegetable) manufacture

On-premise advertisement

Packing and gasket manufacture

Paints, pigments, enamels, japans, lacquers, putty, varnishes, whiting, and wood filler, manufacture or fabrication

Paper products manufacture

Paper, pulp, cellulose, and rayon manufacture

Pipe line or electric transmission line

Pipe storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Plastics manufacture

Potash works

Railroad facilities; need not be enclosed within structure

Revival, church (temporary); as a temporary use on permit issued by the zoning administrator, such permit to be good for a period not exceeding one (1) week and renewal for not more than three (3) such periods

Rock crusher; need not be enclosed within structure

Roofing and sheet metal shop

Sand and gravel storage yard; need not be enclosed within structure

Saw mill or planing mill

Sewage disposal plant

Shoe manufacture

Shoe polish or stove polish manufacture

Soda and washing compound manufacture

Stone cutting

Sugars and starches manufacture

Syrup manufacture

Tar distillation or manufacture

Telephone exchange; including shops and garages

Tool manufacture

Toy manufacture

Trade school

Trailer manufacture

Transit vehicle storage and servicing; need not be enclosed within structure

Water or sewage pumping station

Water storage; need not be enclosed within structure

Welding shop

Well drilling company

Wool preserving by creosote or other impregnation treatment

(2) Uses requiring planning commission approval. The uses listed below are permitted upon approval of the location and site plan thereof by the planning commission as being appropriate with regard to transportation and access, water supply, waste disposal, fire and police protection, and other public facilities, as not causing undue traffic congestion or creating a traffic hazard, and as being in harmony with the orderly and appropriate development of the district in which the use is located:

None

(3) Special exception uses. These uses are declared to possess such characteristics of unique or special form that each specific use shall be considered an individual case and shall be subject to approval of the police jury after a public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission:

Acid manufacture (hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulphuric, sulphanous, carbolic)

Animal black, lamp black, or bone black manufacture

Animal reduction

Automobile wrecking, dismantling or salvage; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a fence not less than seven (7) feet nor more than ten (10) feet high and adequate to screen the area from public view

Bones, distillation

Butane and other liquefied petroleum products storage and sales; need not be enclosed within structure

Cement, lime, gypsum and plaster manufacture

Clay and clay products manufacture; need not be enclosed within structure

Explosives, fireworks and gunpowder manufacture and/or storage

Fertilizers manufacture or processing

Garbage dumping; need not be enclosed within structure

Glue, size, or gelatin manufacture

Junk yard, including storage, baling or sale of rags, paper, iron, or junk; need not be enclosed within structure but must be enclosed within a fence not less than seven (7) feet nor more than ten (10) feet high and adequate to screen the area from public view

Matches manufacture

Meat slaughtering and/or packing

Metal ingots, pigs, castings, sheets, or bars manufacture

Petroleum and petroleum products manufacture, processing, or storage

Rubber or gutta percha manufacture, processing, or reclaiming

Stockyards; need not be enclosed within structure

Tannery, including curing of hides

b. Building site area. The minimum building site area shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

c. Building height limit. Except as provided in Section III, no structure shall be designed, erected, or altered to exceed forty-five (45) feet.

d. Yards required. Except as provided in Section III, the minimum dimensions of yards shall be:

Front yard .....25 ft.

Side yard .....10 ft.

Rear yard .....25 ft.

(Amend. of 3-17-93; Ord. of 9-17-97)

(Ord. of 9-17-97)

(Ord. of 9-17-03)