(a) The provisions of this Section shall be applicable, in addition to any other applicable provisions of this Zoning Ordinance, or any other ordinance, code or regulation.
(b) In accordance with the Pennsylvania Flood Plain Management Act, and the regulations adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as required by the Act, in addition to all other applicable provisions, the following new or substantially improved structures shall be subject to the provisions of this Section:
(1) Structures used for any activity requiring the maintenance of a supply of more than 550 gallons, or other comparable volume, of any of the following dangerous materials or substances on the premises; or,
(2) Structures involving the production, storage or use of any amount of radioactive substances; or
(3) Structures used for the production or storage of any of the following dangerous materials or substances:
A. Actone;
B. Ammonia;
C. Benzene;
D. Calcium carbide;
E. Carbon disulfide;
F. Celluloid;
G. Chlorine;
H. Hydrochloric acid;
I. Hydrocyanic acid;
J. Magnesium;
K. Nitric acid and oxides of nitrogen;
L. Petroleum products (gasoline, fuel oil, etc.);
M. Phosphorus;
N. Potassium;
O. Sodium;
P. Sulphur and sulphur products;
Q. Pesticides (including insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides); or
R. Radioactive substances, insofar as such substances are not otherwise regulated.
(c) Within any Floodway District any strucuture of the kind described in subsection (b) hereof shall be prohibited.
(d) Where permitted within any Flood-Fringe District or general floodplain district, any structure of the kind described in subsection (b) hereof, shall be:
(1) Elevated or designed and constructed to remain completely dry up to at least one and one-half feet above the 100 year flood; and
(2) Designed to prevent pollution from the structure or activity during the course of a 100 year flood.
Any such structure, or part thereof, that will be built below the regulatory flood elevation shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the standards for completely dry floodproofing contained in the publication "Flood-Proofing Regulations (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, June , or with some other equivalent watertight standard.
(e) Except for a possible modification of the freeboard requirements involved, no variance shall be granted for any of the other requirements of this section.
(Ord. 2717. Passed 2-10-86.)