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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 2 – District Descriptions">
  <section prefix="§" num="11-201" heading="OIC Office-Industrial Campus District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Intent.">The OIC Office-Industrial Campus Zoning District is intended for developments of large office structures, research and development facilities, and light industrial uses.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Minimum size of district.">An OIC District must encompass at least 1 acre of land.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Standards.">The OIC District standards are intended for architecturally coordinated office and industrial structures built in a campus-like atmosphere.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Typical uses.">Examples of typical OIC District uses include:<para num="(1)">the international headquarters of a large corporation;</para>
      <para num="(2)">large research and development facilities; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">office campuses of substantial size.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="11-202" heading="BSC Bio-Science Campus District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Intent.">The BSC Bio-Science Campus Zoning District is intended to accommodate bio-science campuses, including supportive uses, and some residential uses.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Minimum size of district.">A BSC District must encompass at least 1 acre of land.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Uses.">The BSC District allows:<para num="(1)">a broad mix of uses, integrating manufacturing, office, and research and development; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">additional supportive uses, like limited retail, educational facilities, and some higher density residential uses.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="11-203" heading="IMU Industrial Mixed-Use Districts.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Intent.">
      <para num="(1)">The IMU Industrial Mixed-Use Zoning Districts are intended to encourage the reuse of older industrial buildings for light industrial use, as well as a variety of non-industrial uses.</para>
      <para num="(2)">These older industrial buildings are often surrounded by residential and other non-industrial uses, though in many cases they are also transition zones between a heavy industrial area and a  major road or a less intense use or district.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Types of IMU Districts.">
      <para num="(1)">2 types of IMU Districts are established, as follows:<para num="(i)">one, the IMU-1 District, allows a variety of residential uses, including live-work dwellings; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the other, the IMU-2 District, prohibits all residential uses.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The IMU-1 District is generally for industrial buildings that are adjacent to existing residential buildings, typically rowhouses.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The IMU-2 District is generally for industrial buildings that are adjacent to heavier industry, port uses, highways, or truck routes and not residential areas.  This district is intended to  protect industrial land and truck routes from pressures of residential uses.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Floor area requirement for certain uses.">
      <para num="(1)">In an IMU-1 District, a use other than residential and other than parking must account for a floor area (located anywhere in any building on the same lot) equal to at least 60% of the total ground-floor area of all buildings on the lot, unless otherwise granted a variance by the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals.</para>
      <para num="(2)">In an IMU-2 District, a use listed in the “Industrial Use Category” of Table 11-301 {“Industrial Districts – Permitted and Conditional Uses”} as allowed for an IMU-2 District must account for a floor area (located anywhere in any building on the same lot) equal to at least 50% of the total ground floor area of all buildings on the lot, unless otherwise granted a variance by the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-181</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="11-204" heading="I-1 Light Industrial District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Intent.">The I-1 Light Industrial Zoning District is intended to provide for a wide variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing, and warehousing uses.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Light industrial uses.">Light industrial uses are enclosed low-intensity, non-nuisance light fabrication and assembly-type manufacturing, with little to no outside impacts.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="11-205" heading="I-2 General Industrial District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Intent.">The I-2 General Industrial Zoning District is intended to provide for a wide variety of general manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing, and warehousing uses.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Uses.">
      <para num="(1)">General industrial uses include fabrication, warehousing and assembly-type manufacturing, which may result in some moderate external effects, such as smoke, noise, glare, or vibration, and typically include outdoor storage and related outdoor activities.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Commercial uses and outdoor storage of materials are allowed.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="11-206" heading="MI Maritime Industrial District.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Intent.">The MI Maritime Industrial Zoning District is intended to ensure the preservation of deep-water frontage of the Port of Baltimore for maritime industrial uses by delineating an area where maritime shipping and maritime industrial uses can be conducted without the intrusion of non-industrial uses and where investment in maritime infrastructure is encouraged.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Nature of uses.">The nature of these activities may result in external effects, such as smoke, noise, glare, or vibration, and typically include outdoor storage and related outdoor activities.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
