The design and performance standards are established to encourage a high standard of development by providing assurance that land uses will be compatible. The performance standards are designed to prevent and eliminate those conditions which depreciate property values that cause blight or are detrimental to the environment. Before any building permit is approved, the Zoning Administrator shall determine whether the proposed use will conform to the design and performance standards. The applicant or owner shall supply data necessary to demonstrate such conformance.
(A) Noise. It is unlawful to make, continue or cause to be made or continued, any noise in excess of the noise levels set forth in Minnesota Rules 7030.0040, which includes standards for activities by the noise area classification (NAC) system, established in part by Minnesota Rules 7030.0050, unless noise such noise be reasonably necessary to the preservation of life, health, safety or property. Sounds in excess of these limitations are violations of this section whether the sound originates in a residential district or any other district.
(B) Trash storage prohibited in front yard. There shall be no front yard storage of trash or trash containers except in the 24-hour period prior to a scheduled pickup.
(C) Boulevards, sidewalks, and street trees. In projects involving new construction, the plans and improvements must include construction of a sidewalk where one is included in the city's sidewalk plan and boulevard sod and street trees shall be provided consistent with city requirements.
(D) Communication structures. Satellite dishes, antennae, and similar devices shall not be allowed in the required front yard nor within 12 feet of the side lot line or rear lot line.
(E) Business inside. All business, service, storage, merchandise, display and repairs and processing, where permitted, shall be conducted wholly within an enclosed structure except for off-street vehicular parking, off-street loading, and for storage or displays of goods complying with § 154.134(D).
(F) Sale of goods. Goods produced on the premises shall be sold only on the premises, at retail, and the processes and equipment employed in production shall not produce any offensive odor, dust, smoke, ash, gas, noise, vibration or refuse. Any use shall be so operated in compliance with the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and MN Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) regulations. All activities that emit radioactivity shall comply with the minimum requirements of the federal regulatory body. Any use shall be operated so as to control the emission of smoke or particulate matter to the degree that it is not detrimental to, or shall not endanger the public health, safety, comfort or general welfare of the public. For the purpose of this section, the regulations and standards adopted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency shall be employed.
(G) Site layout for commercial uses. The site layout of a commercial use must be compatible with and not detrimental to other surrounding property in the general area and make adequate provision for:
(1) The needs of pedestrians, automobiles, and bicycles, including proper circulation and parking;
(2) Use of the existing topography and site vegetation in the location and orientation of structures and other facilities;
(3) Traffic conditions;
(4) Transitional features and decorative walls or live hedges for purposes of separation and screening from residential zoning and uses;
(5) View to and from the site;
(6) Storage of trash in the principal building or in an accessory building of architecture and materials identical to the principal building;
(7) Planted parking islands to control parking and traffic circulation where appropriate and landscape breaks in areas intended for the parking of approximately 20 cars in a row;
(8) Proper drainage of a site;
(9) Location of curb cuts so that no cuts exist closer to an intersection than 30 feet from the point of intersection of the setback lines adjacent to intersecting streets; and
(10) Relating the use of the site to existing and proposed uses of other-abutting properties.
(H) Outdoor lighting. All outdoor lighting which is not globe lighting shall be directed perpendicular to the ground or directly on a building so that no direct rays are visible from off the property.
(I) Utilities. Shall be placed underground and meters shall be screened from view from the street.
(J) Traffic visibility. No wall, fence, structure, tree, shrub, vegetation or other obstruction shall be permitted in any yard or setback which poses a danger to traffic by obscuring the view from any street or roadway. Visibility from any street or roadway shall be unobstructed above the height of 2 feet to a height of 5 feet within the triangle described as beginning at the intersection of the projected curb lines of two intersecting streets, thence 30 feet along one curb, thence diagonally to a point 30 feet from the point of beginning of the other curb line, thence to the point of beginning.
(Ord. 2013-05, passed 5-20-2013; Am. Ord. 2021-07, passed 5-17-2021)