The purpose of this district is to provide for
certain manufacturing, assembly, and fabricating activities, including
large-scale petroleum or other specialized industrial operations,
that may generate large volumes of truck and/or rail traffic and whose
external physical effects will be felt to some degree by surrounding
areas.
Land, buildings, or premises shall be used by
right for only one or more of the following uses:
A. All uses permitted in the Industrial Transition District
and the Planned Business Park District.
B. Petroleum refining and aboveground storage of crude
oil, hydrocarbon fractions, chemical derivatives, or petroleum products.
C. Loading and unloading of ships.
The following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses only, subject to the applicable provisions of Article
XVIII, Procedure and Standards for Conditional Uses:
A. Below-ground storage of petroleum, petroleum products,
and other flammable liquids and gases.
B. Power generation plants that are powered by natural
gas. Coal powered plants are not permitted.
C. Heavy industrial uses, including manufacturing, processing,
servicing, and testing of materials or products not injurious to occupants
of adjacent and nearby uses.
D. Gasoline service station, subject to §
196-138.
E. Cellular communications towers and facilities, subject to §
196-144.
F. Uses of the same general character as those permitted in §§
196-83 and
196-85, except for those listed in §
196-86 below, provided that no resource recovery, waste treatment, landfill, or similar use shall be permitted. To determine if a proposed use is of the same general character as any of the listed permitted uses, Borough Council and the Planning Commission shall evaluate its impacts in relation to the compatibility standards in Article
XVII.
The handling, processing, landfilling, composting,
incinerating, transferring, and/or recovery and storage of hazardous
wastes, municipal solid wastes and sewage sludge, infectious or chemotherapeutic
wastes, construction or demolition waste, or contaminated soil is
prohibited.
Unless stated otherwise, the following shall be minimum requirements; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the continuation of any lawful nonconforming conditions existing at the time of adoption of these regulations, subject to the provisions of Article
XIX, Nonconforming Uses, Structures and Lots:
B. Lot width: none required.
C. Setbacks:
(1) For buildings: 60 feet for front, side, and rear.
(2) For towers, stacks, steeples, vessels, tanks, and
other similar structures: not less than twice their height as measured
from the property line from U.S. Route 13 (10th Street).
D. Distance between buildings: 60 feet.
E. Impervious surface: 70%, maximum.
F. Height:
(1) For buildings: 60 feet, maximum.
(2) For towers, stacks, vessels, steeples, tanks, and
other similar structures:
(a)
One hundred twenty-five feet, within 400 to
1,000 feet from any residential district.
(b)
One hundred fifty feet, within 1,000 to 1,500
feet from any residential district.
(c)
Two hundred feet within 1,500 to 2,500 feet
from any residential district.
(d)
A maximum of 350 feet beyond 2,500 feet from
any residential district, south of U.S. Route 13 (10th Street) and
250 feet north of U.S. Route 13 (10th Street).