130 E Laraway Rd, Joliet, IL 60436

Light Industrial District

The purpose of this section is two-fold. First, its intent is to establish districts suitable for industrial development by reason of size, location, topography, soil conditions, and the availability of adequate utilities and transportation systems. To preserve such districts for the orderly development of industry and allied uses, this section prohibits the intrusion of residential and incompatible business uses into industrial districts. The second intent is to assure that industrial activities are located and operated so as to minimize any negative external effects that such uses may have on the community. To achieve this end, criteria and procedures are included for factually determining the magnitude of external effects.; The critical importance of industry to the economic well-being of the City and its residents is duly recognized. Accordingly, the intent herein is to preserve land areas of sufficient size and suitability for all types of industrial development, while providing the widest range of vocational opportunities to industries whose performance enables them to mitigate undesirable external effects. By basing eligibility to locate in more restrictive industrial districts on performance rather than on use alone, individual industrial firms will be protected against prejudicial and summary exclusion from these districts on the basis of the nuisance production traditionally associated with the broader industrial sector to which the firm belongs.; Provisions pertaining to the use of land within industrial districts shall apply only to those operations and features of the use which occur on a regular basis. Nuisances which cause only occasional and infrequent annoyances or discomfort, which do not cause actual injury to persons or damage to property, and which occur not more than once per day and for durations of not more than 15 minutes, as well as any annoyances associated with temporary construction activities, shall be exempt from the performance requirements of this section. However, such exemptions shall be permitted only when great practical difficulty would be encountered in attempting to fully comply with these regulations. In all cases, good faith efforts shall be made to comply with these regulations.