Chapter 25.65 MA AGRI-BUSINESS MANUFACTURING ZONE
Section 25.65.010 Purpose.
Sioux City, in common with a few other cities in the midwest, has been since 1887 a center of
trade in livestock for a multi-state region. This venture, part industrial and part commercial, and
consisting of stockyards, animal slaughtering, meat processing and animal by-products plants,
offices of livestock commission firms, specialty retail stores, eating and drinking establishments,
banking and other offices, often related to the principal trade, is located in one contiguous area of
approximately two hundred fifty-five acres and is unique among all other industrial and
commercial areas in Sioux City. The area is historically located within these present-day
boundaries: First Street, the Burlington-Northern Railroad, Interstate Highway 29 and the Floyd
River Channel. The area is old and in a transitional state which is freeing land for alternative
uses; in many instances it has long been subdivided into small lots; and it is, as described above,
peculiarly related to a trade which is partly industrial and partly commercial and which has its
roots in the major agricultural resource of the region of which Sioux City is a part.
For these reasons and in order to protect the public interest in both the preservation
and
revitalization of this unique area, this special district is established. (Ord. S-30424, 1976)