7.4.1 Purpose, Scope and Objectives

The Light Industrial Zone, also known as the LI – Zone, is created to allow for light industrial production within the town of Amalga. It shall provide areas in town where light manufacturing or industrial firms can engage in processing, assembling, manufacturing, warehousing, and storage; and for incidental service facilities and public facilities to serve the manufacturing area. The LI – Zone should facilitate and assist industries within Amalga to be productive and competitive. It should be located in areas advantageous to industrial production, but not obtrusive to the rural, residential lifestyle of the community. The zone is intended to encourage sound development while protecting the rural and agricultural nature of the Town. It is designed to ameliorate, as much as possible, problems of noise, odors, pollution, traffic, and other disruptions, caused by industrial production, to the residential, agricultural, and civic areas of Amalga. It should guide the location of industry in areas conducive to public safety and to smooth and efficient traffic flow. Uses, which generate excessive noise, vibration, smoke, odor, dust, fumes, or danger of explosion, will not be allowed within this zone. This zone is designed to accommodate small and clean manufacturing or industrial types of uses. Agricultural use is the 7-11 preferred method of buffering this zone from residential and civic areas. The basic objectives of the LI – Zone are: a) To provide space for light manufacturing and processing uses within the Town in appropriate locations and to discourage uses from locating within this zone which will tend to deteriorate the light manufacturing environment, and thwart the use of land for light manufacturing purposes. b) To broaden the tax bases and improve the job potential and the economic base of the community. c) To promote new small industry to the end that the economic and social well being of the Town and its inhabitants shall be enhanced. d) To discourage the undesirable mixture of incompatible commercial, industrial, and residential uses. e) Unless listed in this chapter, a use is not allowed in the LI-Zone.