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Town of Weymouth, MA
Norfolk County
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[Added February 1979 STM by Art. 1, approved 4-19-1979]
The purpose of the Planned Industrial Park District is to establish and preserve areas for industrial park development which allow industrial and related uses of such a nature as to promote orderly and harmonious industrial growth within the PIP District and to further promote industrial performance standards to reduce adverse environmental effects resulting from development within the district.
[Amended May 1993 ATM by Arts. 55 and 56, approved 7-9-1993; May 1997 ATM by Art. 43, approved 8-11-1997]
See Article XXVA, § 120-123E, for site plan review applicability for any of the permitted uses listed in this section. In a Planned Industrial Park District, the following uses are permitted:
A. 
Assembly, manufacturing, packaging, processing or other similar operation, whether making, finishing and packing, but not including flammable liquids, gases, detonable material or the refining of petroleum products.
B. 
Wholesale business, jobbing or dispatching establishment.
C. 
Office building.
D. 
Research laboratory.
E. 
Printing shop and caterer.
The following uses, or uses customarily accessory thereto, may be granted as special permit uses by the Planning Board subject to the conditions and requirements of Article XXV:
A. 
Storage, utilization or manufacture of hazardous materials, subject to the conditions of § 120-34G and H.
B. 
Motor freight or bus terminal and yards for the storage and servicing of trucks or buses.
C. 
Wholesale storage in a roofed structure not involved in the permitted use under § 120-31B.
D. 
Open-lot storage of new building material, contractors' equipment, machinery and metals, other than scrap or junk, and similar materials, provided that any material stored in unenclosed premises to a height greater than four feet above grade is surrounded by a substantial seven-foot-high wall, tight fence or a proper landscape screening.
E. 
Accessory uses, whether or not on the same parcel as the permitted use of a research laboratory in § 120-31D, which are accessory to the necessary primary activities of a research laboratory or of scientific development or related production; provided, however, that the Planning Board must first find that the proposed accessory uses do not substantially derogate from the public good.
F. 
Ancillary service establishments whose primary purpose is to serve existing industrial occupants and their employees, including but not necessarily limited to restaurant, limited retail sale of food, beverages and other convenience items or branch banking or credit union facilities.
G. 
Hotel or motel.
H. 
Place of recreation or assembly.
[Added May 1994 ATM by Art. 56, approved 8-19-1994]
[Added June 1994 STM by Art. 5, approved 8-25-1994; amended May 1996 ATM by Art. 54, approved 9-9-1996]
The following uses, or uses customarily accessory thereto, may be granted as special permit uses by the Board of Selectmen subject to the conditions and requirements of § 120-33.1 and Article XXV.
A. 
Adult bookstore.
B. 
Adult motion-picture theater.
C. 
Adult club.
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Editor's Note: Former § 120-33, Site plan design standards, was repealed May 1993 ATM by Art. 56, approved 7-9-1993.
[Added June 1994 STM by Art. 5, approved 8-25-1994; amended May 1995 ATM by Art. 57, approved 7-1-1995; May 1996 ATM by Art. 54, approved 9-9-1996]
A. 
Adult bookstores, adult motion-picture theaters and adult clubs may not be located within 1,000 feet of each other and 500 feet of the nearest lot lines of:
(1) 
A residential district.
(2) 
Any establishment licensed under the provisions of MGL c. 138, § 12.
B. 
Adult bookstores, motion-picture theaters, adult clubs and all advertising signs shall not be located within 50 feet of a public or private way and must be set back a minimum of 50 feet from all property lines.
C. 
The application for a special permit under § 120-33 must include the following information:
(1) 
The name and address of the legal owner of the adult bookstore, adult theater or adult club.
(2) 
The name and address of all persons having lawful, equity or security interests in the adult bookstore, adult theater or adult club.
(3) 
The name and address of the manager.
(4) 
The number of employees.
(5) 
Proposed security precautions.
(6) 
The physical layout of the premises.
D. 
Special permits shall not be issued to any person convicted of violating the provisions of MGL c. 119, § 63, or MGL c. 272, § 28.
The intent of performance standards is to reduce adverse environmental impacts within the PIP District, to assess potential industrial nuisances factually and objectively, to ensure that all industries will provide methods to protect the community from hazards and nuisances which can be prevented by process of control along with required site plans to the Planning Board for all permitted and special permit uses within the PIP District. The report shall, as a minimum, show how the proposed use of occupancy shall be issued unless the Planning Board has made a finding that all permitted and special permit uses have complied with these industrial performance standards within the Planned Industrial Park District. The Planning Board may require such information, data and testing, to be performed at the owner's or developer's expense, in order to achieve the finding of compliance.
A. 
Noise.
(1) 
Noise shall be measured with a sound level meter having an A-weighted filter constructed in accordance with specifications of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Measurements shall be made at any point in adjacent lots or districts as indicated in Table I.
Table I
Maximum Permitted Sound Levels
Sound Measured Within PIP District
Continuous Slow-Meter Response
[db(A)]
Impact Fast-Meter Response
[db(A)]
At a point on the lot line of the subject lot nearest to the noise source
70
80
At a lot line abutting a commercial district
60
70
At a lot line abutting a residential district or school
50
60
(2) 
Between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., the permissible sound levels in any abutting residential district shall be reduced by five decibels for impact noises.
(3) 
The following sources of noise are exempt from noise level regulations:
(a) 
Transient noises of moving sources such as automobiles and trucks.
(b) 
Noises of safety signals, warning devices and emergency pressure-relief valves.
(c) 
Noises emanating from temporary construction and maintenance activities between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
B. 
Vibration.
(1) 
Vibration shall be measured at the lot line or district border as indicated in Table II below, and such measurement shall not exceed the particle velocities so designated. The instrument used for these measurements shall be a three-component measuring system capable of simultaneous measurement of vibration in three mutually perpendicular directions. Maximum vibration is given as particle velocity, which may be measured directly with suitable instrumentation or computed on the basis of displacement and frequency. When computed, the following formula shall be used:
Where:
PV
=
6.28 F x D
PV
=
Particle velocity, inches per second.
F
=
Vibration frequency, cycles per second.
D
=
Single amplitude displacement of the vibration, inches.
(2) 
Maximum particle velocity shall be the vector sum of the three individual components recorded. Such particle velocity shall not exceed values given in Table II.
Table II
Maximum Ground-Transmitted Vibration
Vibration Measured Within PIP District
Particle Velocity
(inches per second)
At a point on the lot line of the subject lot nearest to the vibration source
0.10
At a lot line abutting a commercial district
0.05
At a lot line abutting a residential district or school
0.02
C. 
Air quality of emissions from all vents, stacks, chimneys, flues or other opening or any process, operation or activity shall be in accordance with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Environmental Quality Engineering Regulations for the Control of Air Pollution. Ambient air quality standards for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be the guide to the release of airborne toxic materials across lot lines. For those toxic materials that are not listed in the ambient air quality standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the release of such materials shall be in accordance with fractional quantities permitted as currently listed in the threshold limit values adopted by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Measurement of toxic matter shall be at ground level or habitable elevation and shall not exceed 1/30 of the threshold limit across lot lines.
D. 
Odors from any permitted or special permit use in the PIP District shall not be perceptible beyond lot lines of a subject parcel of land.
E. 
Any process, operation or activity producing glare shall be conducted so that any direct or indirect illumination from the source of light shall not cause illumination in excess of 0.5 footcandle at the district borders of the planned industrial park. Flickering or flashing sources of illumination shall be controlled so as not to be visible beyond the district borders of the planned industrial park.
F. 
Heat or cold from any process, operation or activity shall not alter the temperature of the air, land or water by more than 5° F. when measured at the district borders of the planned industrial park.
G. 
Water supply; sewers.
(1) 
Organic and inorganic chemicals which have a maximum contamination level of 0.1 milligram per liter or less, as established under the Drinking Water Regulations of Massachusetts through the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering, may be manufactured or stored in the PIP District only with a special permit from the Planning Board, provided that it is determined that such material will not endanger the water supply.
(2) 
All buildings used in the PIP District must be connected to the sanitary sewer system. Discharge shall conform with the industrial discharge requirements of the Metropolitan District Commission.
(3) 
Construction and use of pretreatment facilities for wastes which cannot be discharged into the public sanitary sewer is prohibited.
(4) 
Salt (NaCl) application to roads, parking and other paved surfaces is prohibited.
(5) 
Oil-separation devices shall be installed in all catch basins draining paved surfaces.
(6) 
All roof drains shall be dispersed to preserve the groundwater recharge abilities of the land within the PIP District.
(7) 
Ancillary storage of naphthas (gasolines, kerosenes and mixtures of gasolines and oils which have a density of less than 0.86 gram per cubic centimeter) is permitted in the PIP District only with a special permit from the Planning Board, provided that it is determined that such material will not endanger the water supply.
H. 
Detonable materials.
(1) 
Detonable materials include but are not limited to all primary explosives such as lead azide, lead styphnate, fulminates and tetracene; all high explosives such as TNT, ROX, HMX, PETN and picric acid; propellants and components thereof such as dry nitrocellulose, black powder, boron hydrides, hydrazine and its derivatives; pyrotechnics and fireworks such as magnesium powder, potassium chlorate and potassium nitrate; blasting explosives such as dynamite and nitroglycerine; unstable organic compounds such as acetylides, tetroxoles and ozonides; unstable oxidizing agents such as perchloric acid, perchlorates and hydrogen peroxide in concentration greater than 35%.
(2) 
Manufacture of or manufacturing processes which result in by-products of detonable material is strictly prohibited.
(3) 
Storage or utilization of detonable materials, as well as storage, utilization or manufacture of high-hazard fire materials, shall be limited to quantities approved by the Fire Department and shall be contained in a suitable structure with setbacks as approved by the Weymouth Fire Department and Building Department.
A. 
The provisions for signs set forth in Article XVI of this bylaw for Industrial District I-1 shall be applicable to the Planned Industrial Park District.
B. 
The provisions for off-street parking set forth in Article XVII of this bylaw for Industrial District I-1 shall be applicable to the Planned Industrial Park District.