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This overlay district is intended to regulate the processing facilities necessary or related to oil and gas exploration, development and processing. The provisions related to this district shall apply to all aspects of the production of oil and gas, including but not limited to:
(a) Structures, equipment or facilities that process, convert, refine and/or treat crude oil and gas, including facilities that separate crude oil and gas from sea water and dissolved chemicals;
(b) Pipelines, crude oil tanker facilities and other related methods by which crude oil and gas are transported to crude oil and gas processing or support facilities;
(c) Storage tanks necessary or incidental to separation/treatment of oil and gas, or temporary storage of separated hydrocarbons, if related to an oil and gas processing operation, and equipment for transfer of the produced hydrocarbons to pipelines or tanker trucks, if related to an oil and gas processing operation;
(d) Access roads necessary or incidental to an oil and gas production operation;
(e) Oil-spill containment and recovery equipment, supplies, facilities, structures and operations, but only when proposed in conjunction with processing facilities; and
(f) Staging areas, as designated above in Section 1205, but only when proposed in conjunction with processing facilities.
The M-2(OGP) District can only be mapped as an overlay to a site within an M-2 (Heavy Industrial) District.
(Added by Ord. 306-90, App. 8/23/90)