This chapter permits specific uses in specific
districts; and these performance standards are designed to limit,
restrict, and prohibit the effects of those uses outside their premises
or district. All structures, land, air, and waters shall hereafter,
in addition to their use and site regulations, comply with the following
performance standards.
No person or activity shall emit any fly ash,
dust, fumes, vapors, mists, or gases in such quantities so as to substantially
contribute to exceeding state or federal air pollution standards.
All activities involving the manufacturing,
utilization, processing, or storage of flammable or explosive materials
shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard
of fire and explosion and with adequate fire-fighting and fire-suppression
equipment and devices that are standard in the industry. All materials
that range from active to intense burning shall be manufactured, utilized,
processed, or stored only within completely enclosed buildings which
have incombustible exterior walls and an automatic fire-extinguishing
system. The aboveground storage capacity of materials that produce
flammable or explosive vapors shall not exceed 50,000 gallons.
No activity shall emit glare or heat that is
visible or measurable outside its premises except activities which
may emit direct or sky-reflected glare which shall not be visible
outside their district. All operations producing intense glare or
heat shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building. Exposed
sources of light shall be shielded so as not to be visible outside
their premises.
A.
No activity shall locate, store, discharge, or permit
the discharge of any treated, untreated, or inadequately treated liquid,
gaseous, or solid materials of such nature, quantity, obnoxiousness,
toxicity or temperature that might run off, seep, percolate, or wash
into surface or subsurface waters so as to contaminate, pollute, or
harm such waters or cause nuisances, such as objectionable shore deposits,
floating or submerged debris, oil or scum, color, odor, taste, or
unsightliness, or be harmful to human, animal, plant, or aquatic life.
B.
In addition, no activity shall withdraw water or discharge
any liquid or solid materials so as to exceed, or contribute toward
the exceeding of, the minimum standards set forth in Chapter NR 102
of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
A.
No activity in any manufacturing district shall produce
a sound level outside the district boundary that exceeds the following
sound level measured by a sound level meter and associated octave
level filter:
|
Octave Band Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Sound Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 75
|
79
| |
|
76 to 150
|
74
| |
|
151 to 300
|
66
| |
|
301 to 600
|
59
| |
|
601 to 1,200
|
53
| |
|
1,201 to 2,400
|
47
| |
|
2,401 to 4,800
|
41
| |
|
Above 4,800
|
39
|
B.
No activity in any other district shall produce a
sound level outside its premises that exceeds the following:
|
Octave Band Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Sound Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 75
|
72
| |
|
76 to 150
|
67
| |
|
151 to 300
|
59
| |
|
301 to 600
|
52
| |
|
601 to 1,200
|
46
| |
|
1,201 to 2,400
|
40
| |
|
2,401 to 4,800
|
34
| |
|
Above 4,800
|
32
|
C.
All noise shall be so muffled or otherwise controlled
as not to become objectionable due to intermittence, duration, beat
frequency, impulse character, periodic character of shrillness. Sirens,
whistles, and bells which are maintained and utilized solely to serve
a public purpose are exempt from the sound level standards set forth
in this section.
No activity shall emit any odorous matter of
such nature or quantity as to be offensive, obnoxious, or unhealthful
outside its premises. The guide for determining odor measurement and
control shall be based on Chapter NR 154 of the Wisconsin Administrative
Code and amendments thereto.
No activity shall emit radioactivity or electrical
disturbances outside its premises that are dangerous or adversely
affect the use of neighboring premises.
No activity in any district shall emit vibrations
which are discernible without instruments outside its premises. No
activity shall emit vibrations which exceed the following displacement
measured with a three-component measuring system:
|
Displacement
(inches)
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Outside the Premises
|
Outside the District
|
|
0 to 10
|
.0020
|
.0004
|
|
11 to 20
|
.0010
|
.0002
|
|
21 to 30
|
.0006
|
.0001
|
|
31 to 40
|
.0004
|
.0001
|
|
41 to 50
|
.0003
|
.0001
|
|
Over 50
|
.0002
|
.0001
|
No exterior lighting used for parking lots,
recreational facilities, product display, or security shall be permitted
to spill over on operators of motor vehicles, pedestrians, and uses
of land in vicinity of the light source. These requirements shall
not apply to lighting placed in a public right-of-way for public safety
or approved municipal recreation facilities.
A.
Type. Shielded luminaries, or luminaries with cutoff
optics, and careful fixture placement shall be required so as to facilitate
compliance with this section.
B.
Orientation. Exterior lighting fixtures shall be oriented
so that the lighting element (or a transparent shield) does not throw
rays onto neighboring properties. Light rays shall not be directed
into street rights-of-way or upward into the atmosphere.
C.
Minimum lighting standards. All areas designated on
approved site plans for vehicular parking, loading, or circulation
and used for any such purpose after sunset shall provide artificial
illumination in such areas at a minimum intensity of 0.4 footcandle,
exclusive of approved anti-vandal lighting. This standard shall not
apply to properties in agricultural and single-family residential
districts.
D.
Intensity of illumination. The intensity of illumination,
measured at the property line, shall not exceed 0.5 footcandle.
E.
Location. Light fixtures shall not be permitted within
required buffer yards.
F.
Flashing, flickering, and other distracting lighting
which may distract motorists is prohibited.
G.
Nuisances. Lighting which creates or becomes a public
nuisance is not permitted.
H.
Low voltage accent lighting (12 volts or less) is
exempt from these requirements.
J.
Recreation or sports lighting must be turned off at
10:30 p.m.
