(A) Buffer and setback.
(1) Where a proposed I-1 development abuts an R-1, R-2 or R-3 District other than at a public street line, buffer provisions shall be established. There shall be provided a protective strip of not less than 100 feet in width. The protective strip shall not be used for parking, driveways, off-street loading or storage and shall be landscaped. The landscape treatment shall contain an opaque fence or wall which shall not extend within ten feet of any street right-of-way. The fence or wall design must be approved by the Council as being in harmony with the residential neighborhood and providing sufficient screening of the industrial area. The fence or wall shall be eight feet in height. The protective strip shall contain no structures other than the approved fence or wall.
(2) Where a proposed I-1 development faces any residential district across a street, buffer provisions shall be established consisting of a protective strip along the street. The protective strip shall be no less than 50 feet in width, shall contain no structures, shall not be used for parking, off-street loading, storage or any other activity and shall be landscaped. Activity areas shall be effectively screened from view of the residential district in a manner to be approved by the Council.
(B) Explosives. No activities involving the storage, utilization or manufacture of materials or products which could be detonated shall be permitted except those as are specifically licensed by the Council. The prohibited materials shall include but not be confined to all primary explosives, such as lead oxide and lead sulphate; all high explosives and boosters such as TNT and RDS, tetryl and ammonium nitrate; propellants and components thereof such as nitrocellulose, black powder, ammonium perchlorate and nitroglycerin, blasting explosives such as dynamite powder, magnesium, potassium chlorite, potassium permanganate, potassium nitrate and reactive propellant materials.
(C) Noise. Noise shall not exceed 40 decibels on any octave band frequency measured at any point along the property line of the use and operation. Decibel levels shall be measured by equipment meeting the specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(D) Vibration. No activity or operation shall at any time cause earth vibrations perceptible beyond the limits of the immediate site on which the operation is located.
(E) Incineration. The incineration of waste matter shall be conducted in approved equipment located within the building wherein the permitted use is conducted. No smoke or other effusive or particulate matter shall be discharged more opaque or darker than No. 1 classification of the Ringelmann Smoke Chart published by the United States Bureau of Mines. Measurements shall be at the point of emission. No solid or liquid particulates of any type shall be emitted in a concentration that they become detectable at the limits of the immediate site.
(F) Odor. None of the uses shall at any time cause the discharges of toxic, noxious or odorous matters in concentrations as to be detectable beyond the limits of the immediate site.
(G) Glare and heat. Glare and heat, whether directed or reflected, shall not be detectable beyond the limits of the immediate industrial site from which they originate.
(H) Wastes. All solid waste materials, debris, refuse or garbage not disposed of through the public sanitary sewage system shall be kept in a completely enclosed building or properly contained in a closed container designed for those purposes. All wastes shall be treated in compliance with existing State Pollution Control Agency regulations.
(I) Outdoor storage and activity. In the Industrial Park District (I-1), all production, storage, servicing or merchandising, except off-street parking and off-street loading, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings. Fuel storage facilities not located within a completely enclosed building or buried below grade shall be completely screened from view utilizing earth or opaque structural materials. The screening device shall be appropriately landscaped and shall be aesthetically compatible with other structures and landscaping on the site. Detailed plans for the screening shall be submitted to and approved by the Council.
(K) Compliance. None of the permitted uses in the Industrial Park District, during the period of their operations, shall fail to satisfy any of the standards set forth above. In determining compliance with those standards, the majority vote of the Council shall be the test of detectability for vibration, particulate matter and odor, glare and heat. Before making this determination, the Council shall personally observe any alleged noncompliance. For noise, odor, smoke and wastes, determination of compliance shall be by any independent testing organization satisfactory to all parties concerned, or if there is failure to agree, by any testing organizations as may be selected by the Council after ten days’ notice to the alleged violator.
(L) Utilities. On developments of sufficient magnitude so as to require on-site water main or sewer main construction, plans for the facilities shall be designed by and installed under the supervision of a civil engineer registered in this state and shall be submitted to and approved by the City Engineer.
(1989 Code, § 11.64)