Environmental criteria for industrial uses
The following apply to all industrial uses requiring a special use permit, on top of any use-specific criteria noted above.
A. General standard: No industrial building or use shall create any dangerous, injurious, noxious, or otherwise objectionable fire, explosive, or other hazard; noise or vibration; smoke, dust, odor or other form of air pollution; heat, cold, dampness, electromagnetic or other substance, condition or element in such manner, or in such amount, as to adversely affect the reasonable use of the surrounding area or adjoining premises.
B. Standards for dangerous and objectionable elements.
1) Air emissions. Air emissions shall be treated in a manner that prevents any nuisance or hazard to neighboring uses. Nuisance from emissions may include, but is not limited to, soiling of the ground or building surfaces, or damage or death of vegetation. Hazards from emissions may include, but are not limited to, particulates inhaled by people that may be harmful to their health.
2) Waste. All wastes must be properly stored and disposed of in a manner to maintain sanitary and nuisance free conditions satisfactory to the zoning enforcement officer.
3) Flammable and explosive materials. All activities and all storage of flammable and explosive materials at any point shall be provided with adequate safety devices against fire and explosion and adequate fire-fighting and fire-suppression devices and equipment, as approved by the local fire marshal.
4) Vibration. No vibration that is detectable without instruments at a lot line should be transmitted outside of the lot where it originates, except vibration necessarily involved in the construction or demolition of buildings and structures.
5) Heat. Heat, defined as thermal energy of a radiative, conductive or convective nature, emitted at the lot line by any use or facility shall not exceed the temperatures tolerable to plant or animal life.
6) Radioactivity and electrical disturbance. No activities are permitted that emit dangerous radioactivity at any point and no electrical disturbances are permitted that adversely significantly affect the operation of any equipment, other than that of the creator of such disturbance.
7) Discharges. No discharge shall be permitted into a private sewer system, stream, the ground or a municipal sewage disposal system that releases any material in such a way or of such a nature or temperature as can contaminate any running stream, water supply or otherwise cause the emission of dangerous or objectionable elements and accumulation of wastes conducive to the breeding of rodents or vector arthropods.
8) Odors. No use shall cause or permit the emission of any substance or combination of substances which creates or contributes to an odor, in the ambient air, that constitutes a nuisance, so as to significantly impair the reasonable use of any other property.
(Ord. of 2-3-2025(1), § 1(Exh. A))