No use otherwise allowed shall be permitted within any use district which does not conform to the following standards of use, occupancy and operation, which standards are hereby established as the minimum requirements to be maintained within the area.
(A) Open storage. The open storage of any equipment, and all materials including wastes, shall be screened from abutting residential property by an enclosure consisting of an obscuring wall or fence not less than six feet high or by a ten-foot wide greenbelt planting not less than six feet high. The obscuring fence may be eliminated where such fence will interfere with traffic movement on public streets or thoroughfares.
(B) Glare and radioactive materials.
(1) Glare from any process (such as or similar to arc welding or acetylene torch cutting) which emits harmful rays shall be performed in such a manner as not to extend beyond the property line, and as not to create a public nuisance or hazard along lot lines.
(2) Radioactive materials and wastes, and including electromagnetic radiation such as x-ray machining operation, shall not be permitted to exceed quantities established as safe by the United States Bureau of Standards when measured at the property line.
(C) Noise. Objectionable sounds of an intermittent nature shall be controlled so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses.
(D) Fire and explosive hazards.
(1) The storage, utilization of manufacture of materials or products ranging from incombustible to moderate burning as determined by the Fire Chief of Tremont Fire District, is permitted, subject to compliance with all other performance standards above mentioned.
(2) The storage utilization, or manufacture of materials, goods or products ranging from free or active burning to intense burning, as determined by the Fire Chief, is permitted subject to compliance with all other yard requirements and performance standards previously mentioned, and providing that the following conditions are met:
(a) The materials or products shall be stored, utilized or produced within completely enclosed buildings or structures having incombustible exterior walls, which meet the requirements of the building code of the village; and
(b) All such buildings or structures shall be set back at least 40 feet from lot lines and all such buildings or structures shall be protected throughout by an automatic sprinkler system complying with installation standards prescribed by the National Fire Association.
(E) Grading. Grading, as it relates to residential structures, shall be so developed as to drain surface water away from residential dwellings. A minimum slope of one-fourth inch in one foot shall be provided.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)