§ 4-6
Prohibited uses
[Ord. No. 08-31, 10-7-2009; Ord. No. 11-02A, § 2, 8-17-2011; amended 12-6-2023 by Ord. No. 23-26]
Any use which is not specifically listed as a permitted use, by right or conditionally by special use permit, in this article, is a prohibited use. For the purposes of greater specificity, however, the following uses are prohibited in the Town of Cumberland:
- (a) Acid manufacture including hydrochloric, nitric, picric or sulfuric acid;
- (b) Aircraft transportation;
- (c) Asbestos and asbestos product manufacturing, assembly or processing;
- (d) Bulk storage, petroleum/LNG storage;
- (e) Chlorine or other similar noxious or toxic gases;
- (f) Extraction of underground water resources for wholesale or retail purposes;
- (g) Glue manufacture;
- (h) Junkyard;
- (i) Landfill and/or solid waste transfer station;
- (j) Leather and fur tanning and finishing;
- (k) Mobile home park;
- (l) Motel;
- (m) Nuclear industries and explosives;
- (n) Outdoor advertising for off-site uses, billboards;
- (o) Petroleum products and related industries;
- (p) Petroleum refining;
- (q) Power plant, incinerator and waste facility;
- (r) Prison or correctional institution;
- (s) Pulp mills and paper mills;
- (t) Rendering or refining of fats or oils;
- (u) Self-storage facility;
- (v) Slaughter of animals, not including fowl;
- (w) Solid fuel outdoor furnace;
- (x) Stockyard or feeding pen;
- (y) Storage and/or processing of medical wastes (as a principal use);
- (z) Tobacco processing;
- (aa) Wind energy system.
Editor’s Note: For definitions of the prohibited uses, see Appendix A, which is included as an attachment to this chapter.