(A) No land or building in any district shall be used in any manner so as to create any dangerous, injurious, noxious or otherwise objectionable conditions or hazards, or the potential thereof, including fire, explosion, noise, vibration; smoke, dust, odor or other forms of air pollution; water pollution; heat, cold, dampness, wastes, illumination, contamination; electrical or other substance, condition or element in such a manner or in such amount as to adversely affect the surrounding area of adjoining premises.
(B) Subject to the foregoing, any use permitted by this chapter may be undertaken and maintained if it conforms to the following performance standards.
(1) The standards and controls designated by the state’s Air Pollution Control Commission concerning air emission shall be followed.
(2) No electrical disturbance shall be tolerated which affects adversely the operation at any point of any equipment other than that of the creator of such disturbance.
(3) All activities involving, and all storage of, inflammable and explosive materials shall be provided at any point with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion and adequate firefighting and fire suppression equipment and devices standard to the industry. All flammable substances involved in any activity established in the district shall be handled in conformance with the latest edition of the Fire Protection Code, published by American Insurance Association, and the relevant provisions of state and local laws and regulations shall also apply.
(4) Every use shall be so operated that there is no emission of heat, glare or radiation visible or discernible beyond the boundary of the site.
(5) No liquid or solid wastes shall be discharged at any point into any public sewer, private sewage disposal system or stream, or into the ground, except in accordance with standards approved by the County Health Department or the State Health Department, as the case may be, or standards equivalent to those approved by said authorities for similar uses, of any materials of such nature or temperature as can contaminate any water supply, interfere with the orderly operation of public sewage collection and treatment systems, or otherwise cause the emission of dangerous or offensive elements.
(6) (a) When it has been demonstrated that an odor is an objectionable odor, the Zoning Administrator and at least two other non-interested persons must evaluate the odor to determine if it complies with this section.
(b) No operation or person shall cause, permit or allow the emission of an objectionable odor in offensive concentrations and frequencies as determined by the County Zoning Administrator.
(7) No person shall operate or cause to be operated on private property any source of sound in such a manner as to create a sound level which is considered objectionable.
(8) Every use shall be so operated that the ground vibration inherently or recurrently generated is not perceptible, without instruments, at any point of any boundary line of the lot on which the use is located.
(Ord. passed - -2010) Penalty, see § 154.999