§ 1502. Permitted uses.
A.
The following principal uses are permitted in HI districts:
1.
Manufacturing activity which does not cause injurious or obnoxious noise, vibrations, smoke, gas, fumes, odor, dust, fire hazard, or other objectionable conditions.
2.
Wholesale and warehousing operation.
3.
Building material yard.
4.
Public garage.
5.
Repair garage.
6.
Newspaper or printing plant.
7.
Off-street parking lot or parking garage.
8.
Armory.
9.
Bottling plant.
10.
Cabinet shop.
11.
Cold storage, ice plant, or freezer locker.
12.
Cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
13.
Dairy plant, ice cream manufacturing.
14.
Distribution of products or merchandise.
15.
Dry cleaning or laundering establishment.
16.
Education or training facility.
17.
Electrical appliance and equipment sales and repair.
18.
Electronic manufacturing and assembly.
19.
Fabricating shop such as woodworking, upholstery, or sheetmetal shop.
20.
Machine shop.
21.
Plumbing shop, other contractor—including open storage of materials when located in rear yard.
22.
Printing, publishing, reproducing establishment.
23.
Sign painting and fabricating shop.
24.
Textile manufacturing plant.
25.
Baking establishment.
26.
Heavy agricultural equipment sales and repair.
27.
Truck terminal.
28.
Gasoline storage terminal.
29.
Radio transmission tower.
30.
Acid manufacture and storage.
31.
Bulk petroleum plant.
32.
Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of Paris manufacture.
33.
Ceramic products manufacture, limited to use of electric kilns.
34.
Commercial livestock processing.
35.
Concrete, cement products, or clay products manufacture.
36.
Feed, grain, or fertilizer manufacture or storage.
37.
Food processing plant.
38.
Foundry or forging plant.
39.
Grain elevator.
40.
Ice manufacturing, including dry ice plant.
41.
Planing or sawmill.
42.
Poultry processing plant.
43.
Railroad yard.
44.
Recycling center.
45.
Rock, sand, or gravel distribution or storage.
46.
Tinsmith operation.
47.
Roofing operation.
48.
Local, state, or federal government building.
49.
Agriculture.
50.
(Reserved).
51.
Outdoor advertising sign.
52.
Wreck motor vehicle compounds, junkyards, salvage yards, coal and wood yards, and used auto parts yards. Protective screening as required in the Screven County Clean Community Ordinance.
53.
Slaughterhouses for meat, poultry, stockyards and feedlots.
54.
Breweries and distilleries.
55.
Establishments that manufacture paper from pulpwood and other fibrous materials.
B.
The following principal uses are permitted as conditional uses in HI districts:
1.
Airports, upon FAA approval, including related facilities customarily found in airports, such as:
a.
Car rental agencies.
b.
Facilities for the servicing, repair and maintenance of aircraft.
c.
Restaurants, newsstands, gift shops, when located within the passenger terminal building.
d.
Warehouses and storage buildings for air-freight.
e.
Bulk storage for flammable liquids.
2.
Reserved.
3.
Development of natural resources, including the removal of minerals and natural materials. This includes appurtenant buildings and machinery. Such an activity must meet the following development standards:
a.
At the time of application for the building permit, the owners or operators of the quarry must present to the zoning administrator documentation which confirms that a permit has been issued in accordance with the Georgia Surface Mining Act of 1968, as amended.
4.
Utility substation meeting the following development standards:
a.
Structures must be placed at least 30 feet from all property lines.
b.
Structures must be enclosed by a woven-wire fence at least eight feet high with bottom of fence either flush with the ground or with a masonry footing.
c.
No vehicles or equipment may be stored on the lot.
d.
A 25-foot minimum buffer must be maintained along the side and rear property lines.
e.
Lot size may be reduced to not less than 0.5 acre for utility substations provided other development standards are met and, if a private well is to be placed on the lot, the lot size is sufficient to support a well consistent with the other provisions of this ordinance, other ordinances, and the laws and regulations of the State of Georgia.
5.
Manufacturing activity which may cause noise, vibrations, smoke, gas, fumes, odor, dust, fire hazard, or other objectionable conditions.
6.
Firms that produce raw materials (minerals, forest products, chemicals, unfinished metals) into manufactured products ready for sale, or that will be used in the production of other manufactured products.
7.
Firms that produce or store toxic substances for direct sale or for distribution to retailers or other manufacturers.
8.
Firms that use substantial quantities of water in manufacturing processes.
9.
Firms engaged in the slaughtering and/or processing of animals.
10.
Communications towers as permitted and governed by the provisions of article 17 of this ordinance.
C.
The following accessory uses are permitted in HI districts:
1.
Those determined by the zoning administrator, subject to the approval of the board of commissioners, to be customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use.
D.
The following accessory uses are permitted as conditional uses in HI districts:
1.
None.
E.
All accessory uses must meet the following standards:
1.
They must be located in a side or rear yard.
2.
They may not be located in a front yard.
3.
They must comply with the setback requirements of this district.
4.
Accessory buildings not attached to the principal building must be located at least 12 feet from the principal building on the lot.