Approved Uses by Zoning — 7100 -> IU-1 [mapping/alias] (7100 - Light Industrial (IU-1) City of Sweetwater)
Uses permitted by right under the municipality’s zoning for this district. The property may carry additional restrictions (deed, association or lease), so tenants are responsible for confirming their intended use with the municipality and landlord before committing.
Allowed by right
Aircraft hangars and repair shops, aircraft assembling and manufacturing, Animal hospitals (soundproof, air-conditioned), Armories, arsenals, Auditoriums, Auto painting, top and body work, Automobile and truck sales, new/used (ancillary rentals/wholesale/repairs to max 15% of GBA), Automotive repairs, Automobile and truck rentals and wholesale distribution, Bakeries (wholesale with incidental retail), Banks, Blacksmith, gas steam fitting shops, Boat or yacht repairing/overhauling, or boat building, Boat slips for tying up boats for overhauling/repairing, Bottling plants, Cabinet shops, Canning factories, Carpet cleaning, Caterers, Clubs, private, Cold storage warehouses and precooling plants, Commercial chicken hatcheries, Commuter colleges/universities, Concrete/clay/ceramic products (hand manufacture / small mixer, within a building), Contractors' offices and yards, Day nursery, kindergarten, schools and after-school care (state-licensed; schools min 5 acres on a major roadway), Dispensing facilities for low-THC or medical cannabis, Dog kennels (soundproofed/air-conditioned), Dredging base / dredge supply, storage, repair or rebuild, Dry cleaning and dyeing plants, Electric substation, Engine sales and service, Fertilizer storage, Food products - grinding/cooking/roasting/preserving/drying/smoking of meats/fish/fruits/vegetables (>5 employees), Fruit packing and preserving, Furniture manufacturing, Furniture refinishing, Garages - storage mechanical, incl. trucks/buses/heavy equipment, Glass installations, Grinding shops, Ice manufacturing, Insecticide mixing, packaging and storage, Laboratories, material testing, Leather goods manufacturing (excl. tanning), Livery stables / stable for horses (min 300 ft from RU/EU), Locksmiths, Lumberyards, Machine shops, Marine warehouses, Mattress manufacturing and renovating, Metalizing processes, Milk or ice distributing station, Millwork shops, Movie and television studios (indoor sound stages), Night clubs, bars and pubs (>=500 ft from RU/EU), Novelty works, Office buildings, Ornamental metal workshops, Oxygen storage and cylinder filling, Parking lots - commercial and noncommercial, Passenger and freight stations/terminals (boats, trucks, buses, railroads), Pharmaceutical storage (licensed, air-conditioned, secured), Police and fire stations, Post offices (incl. self-service, stations, branches, mail processing), Power or steam laundries, Printing shops, Radio and television transmitting stations and studios, Religious facilities inside the Urban Development Boundary, Restaurants, Technical/trade schools (aviation, electronic, mechanics) and physical-training schools, Ship chandlers, Shipyards and dry docks, Sign painting shops, Steel fabrication, Storage warehouse for food, fodder, etc., Taxidermy (fully enclosed, air-conditioned), Telecommunications hubs (>=85% GFA for equipment), Telephone exchanges, Telephone service unit yards, Textile, hosiery and weaving mills (>=200 ft from RU/EU), Upholstery shops, Utility work centers (power and telephone), Vending machine sales and service, Veterinarians, Vulcanizing, Warehouses for storage of products in the form sold in a BU District, Welding shops, Welding supplies, Wood and coal yards, Equipment/appliance center for testing/repairing/overhauling/reconditioning, Automobile self-service gas stations (major access roads; Sec. 33-247(6)), Automobile service stations (major access roads; Sec. 33-247(5)), Hotel and motel use (freestanding per RU-4A, or mixed-use attached to a permitted industrial structure), Salesrooms and storage showrooms - wholesale
With special approval
Adult entertainment uses (Sec. 33-259.1) - spacing: 1,000 ft from schools/churches/parks/libraries/day cares, 1,200 ft from other adult uses, 750 ft from residential, unless approved as special exception, Adult day care center (Sec. 33-223.1), Movie/television studios with outdoor lots/backlots (public hearing), Religious facilities OUTSIDE the Urban Development Boundary (public hearing), Automobile and truck sales on sites of 10+ acres (public hearing), Membership warehouse (min 100,000 sf; roadway/site-plan conditions), Home improvement warehouses (site <=20 ac, min 100,000 sf GFA), Asterisked uses (auto painting/body, automotive repairs, cabinet/millwork/grinding/ornamental-metal/welding shops, canning, boat building, dredging, fertilizer/insecticide storage, furniture manufacturing, lumberyards, steel fabrication, taxidermy, telecom hubs, vulcanizing) require a public hearing if within 500 ft of RU/EU (250 ft if fully enclosed)
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