No land or building in any district shall be used or occupied in any manner creating dangerous, injurious noxious or otherwise objectionable conditions which could adversely affect the surrounding areas or adjoining premises, except that any use permitted by this Ordinance may be undertaken and maintained if acceptable measures and safeguards to reduce dangerous and objectionable conditions to acceptable limits as established by the performance requirements in this section.
(a) Screening. No buildings or structures shall be erected, altered or enlarged nor shall land be used for any non-residential use on a lot that adjoins or faces any residential district until a plan for screening has been submitted and approved by the Zoning Administrator.
(1) Screening shall be provided for one or more of the following purposes:
A. A visual barrier to partially or completely obstruct the view of unattractive structures or activities.
B. As an acoustic screen to aid in absorbing or deflecting noise.
C. For the containment of debris and litter.
(2) Screening may be one of the following or a combination of two or more:
A. A solid masonry wall.
B. A solidly constructed decorative fence.
C. Louvered fence.
D. Dense evergreen plantings.
E. Deciduous trees and shrubs.
(3) Whenever any nonresidential use abuts a residential district, a visual screening wall, fence or planting shall be erected or placed along such boundary lines.
(4) Visual plantings shall be not less than four (4) feet in height at the time of planting except in required front yards where maximum height shall be not greater than two (2) feet. Screening shall be designed to maintain traffic visibility within fifty (50) feet of an intersection.
(5) All tree plantings and planting screens required by this Ordinance shall be installed prior to occupancy or commencement of use. Where compliance with the preceding sentence is not possible because of the season of the year, the Zoning Administrator shall grant an appropriate delay, but shall issue no permanent zoning compliance certificate or certificate of occupancy until completion of all require plantings.
(6) Screening for purposes of absorbing or deflecting noise shall have a depth of at least fifteen (15) feet of dense plantings or a solid masonry wall in combination with decorative plantings.
(b) Fire and Explosion Hazards. All activities involving burning and all storage of flammable or explosive materials shall be provided at any point with adequate safety devices against the hazards of fire and explosion and adequate fire-fighting and fire suppression equipment and devices, standard in the industry. Burning of waste materials in open fire is prohibited at any point.
(c) Fissionable, Radioactivity or Electrical Disturbance. No activities shall be permitted which utilize fissionable or radioactive materials if their use results at any time in the release or emission of any fissionable or radioactive material into the atmosphere, the ground, or sewerage systems, and no activities shall be permitted which emit electrical disturbance affecting the operation at any point of any equipment other than that of the creator of such disturbances.
(d) Air Pollution. Air pollution shall be subject to the requirements and regulations established by the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(e) Liquid or Solid Wastes. No discharge at any point into any public sewer, private sewerage disposal system, or stream, or into the ground, of any materials of such nature or temperature as can contaminate any water supply, interfere with bacterial processes in sewage treatment, or otherwise cause the emission of dangerous or offensive elements, shall be permitted, except in accordance with minimum standards approved by the Ohio Department of Health or such other governmental agency as shall have jurisdiction on such activities.
(f) Glare and Heat. Any operation producing intense light or heat, such as high temperature processes like combustion or welding or otherwise shall be performed within an enclosed building and not be visible beyond any lot line bounding the property whereon the use is conducted.
(g) Noise. Objectionable noise as determined by the Zoning Inspector which is due to volume, frequency, or beat shall be muffled or otherwise controlled. Air raid sirens and related apparatus used solely for public purposes are exempt from this requirement.
(h) Vibration. No uses shall be located and no equipment shall be installed in such a way to produce intense, earth-shaking vibrations which are discernible without instruments at the property lines of the subject premises.
(i) Odors. No odor shall be emitted by any use permitted in this district in such quantities as to be readily detectable by an average observer at any point on the line of the premises or beyond.
(j) Erosion. No erosion, by either wind or water, shall be permitted which will carry objectionable substances onto neighboring properties.
(k) Enforcement Provisions. The Zoning Enforcement Officer, prior to the issuance of a zoning permit, may require the submission of statements and plans indicating the manner in which dangerous and objectionable elements involved in processing and in equipment operations are to be eliminated or reduced to acceptable limits and tolerances.
(l) Measurement Procedures. Methods and procedures for the determination of the existence of any dangerous and objectionable elements shall conform to applicable standard measurement procedures published by the American Standards Association, Inc., New York, the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc., Washington, D.C., the United States Bureau of Mines, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.