This conditional use is established to permit the drilling of wells for oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons in the village subject to the requirements set forth in § 152.049 and all other applicable sections of this chapter and to prescribe the minimum standards and requirements to make the drilling, fracturing, production, including storage and transmission, termination, and removal of the wells as safe and compatible as possible with other land uses and activities in the village. The Planning Commission is herewith given full authority to make such recommendations as deemed necessary to give full force and effect to the purposes and requirements expressed herein and Council is herewith given full authority to impose such conditions as it shall deem necessary to give full force and effect to the purposes and requirements expressed herein. An appropriate application and compliance with the purposes and requirements of this chapter and all other applicable sections of the village's regulations shall be within the discretion of the Council, and no such determinations shall serve as precedent to any other application. Each application shall rest solely upon its own merit and prudent use of discretion by the Council. All provisions of this chapter shall apply to the proposed well site and drill unit, property owner(s), heirs, executors, or assigns, and to the well drilling and production firms, partnerships, associations; or corporations and their successor and assigns.
(Ord. passed 12-11-90; Am. Ord. 2018-80, passed 11-20-18)