A. Business and manufacturing employment opportunities for existing residents of the city and those in the adjacent area;

B. A variety of industrial uses, in limited and appropriate areas, to accommodate existing industries and minimize adverse impacts to the environment and surrounding uses;

C. Protection of residential and other uses from adverse impacts from manufacturing and industrial uses;

D. Protection of industrial areas from other uses that may interfere with the purpose and efficient operation of those areas.

The Light Industrial (L-I) Zone is intended to accommodate a variety of light industrial uses including but not limited to manufacturing, warehousing, distribution operations, processing and fabricating, and to preserve land for such use.

The Heavy Industrial (H-I) Zone is intended to accommodate heavy industrial uses and to preserve land for such uses at locations that will permit less restrictive industrial performance standards and bulk regulations than are required in the L-I Zone, thereby providing greater flexibility to accommodate a variety of heavy industrial uses including but not limited to manufacturing, fabricating, processing, warehousing, distribution operations, and assembly.