The following minimum standards shall apply to all uses in B-1, B-2, B-3, M-1, M-2 and M-3 Industrial Districts:
(a) Fire and Explosion Hazards. All activities, including storage, involving flammable or explosive materials, shall include the provision of adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion, such safety devices being standard in the industry. Burning of waste materials in open fire is prohibited at any point.
(b) Fly Ash, Dust, Fumes Vapors, Gases and Other Forms of Air Pollution. No emission of air pollutants shall be permitted which violates the minimum Federal requirements as enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency. Dust and other airborne pollutants shall be minimized through the paving, oiling or landscaping of the lot area around any building.
(c) Glare, Heat and Exterior Light. Any operation, as part of a permitted use, producing intense light or heat, such as combustion, welding or other high-temperature processes, shall be performed within an enclosed building and not be visible beyond any lot line bounding the property whereon the use is conducted. No exterior lighting shall be positioned so as to extend light or glare onto adjacent properties or rights-of-way.
(d) Liquid or Solid Waste. No discharge at any point into any public sewer, private sewage disposal system, or stream, or into the ground, of any materials of such nature or temperature as may contaminate any water supply, interfere with bacterial processes in sewage treatment or otherwise cause the emission of dangerous or offensive elements, shall be permitted, except in accordance with standards approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or such other governmental agency as shall have jurisdiction of such activities.
(e) Noxious Gases. Processes and operations of permitted uses capable of dispersing gases or toxic particulates into the atmosphere shall be hooded or otherwise suitably enclosed. The emission of such toxic gases or particulate matter shall be from a stack.
(f) Vibrations. No use shall be located and no equipment shall be installed in such a way as to produce intense earth-shaking vibrations which are discernible without instruments at the property lines of the subject premises.
(g) Odors. The rules and regulations of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Auglaize County Health Department shall be complied with.
(h) Electrical Interference. No use shall operate so as to produce an electrical interference with adjacent properties.
(Ord. 2010-29. Passed 7-5-10.)