All uses and activities established after the effective date
of this chapter shall comply with the following standards.
[Added 11-16-2004 by Ord.
No. 2004-25]
A. In reviewing applications for building permits, consideration shall
be given to the positioning and orientation of structures. The design
and layout of principal and accessory structures and parking areas
shall be reviewed to provide an aesthetically pleasing design and
efficient arrangement.
B. The layout of the structures and parking areas shall have substantially
the same orientation as the surrounding buildings in the neighborhood.
C. Requests for deviation from these standards shall require site plan
approval from the Planning Board.
No smoke shall be emitted from any chimney or other source of
visible gray opacity greater than No. 1 on the Ringelmann Smoke Chart
as published by the United States Bureau of Mines, except that smoke
of a shade not darker than No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart may be emitted
for not more than four minutes in any thirty-minute period.
No use shall produce heat perceptible beyond its lot lines.
No use shall emit odorous gases or other odorous matter in such
quantities as to be offensive at any point on or beyond its lot lines.
The guide for determining such quantities of offensive odors shall
be the 50% response level of Table 1 (Odor Thresholds in Air), Research
on Chemical Odors: Part 1, Odor Thresholds for 53 Commercial Chemicals,
October 1968, Manufacturing Chemists Association, Inc., Washington,
D.C.
No use shall produce a strong, dazzling light or a reflection
of a strong, dazzling light beyond its lot lines.
No use shall cause earth vibrations or concussions detectable
beyond its lot lines without the aid of instruments, with the exception
of that vibration produced as a result of construction activity.
Buffer yards are required in all COS and H-C/I Districts along
the district boundaries between themselves and residential districts.
No commercial and industrial uses shall hereafter be established,
nor shall existing uses be expanded, unless they meet the following
buffer yard regulations:
A. The buffer yard shall be measured from the district boundary line
or from the near street line where a street serves as the district
boundary line.
B. Buffer yards shall be not less than 15 feet in width in the COS District
and not less than 30 feet in the H-C/I District.
C. The buffer yard may be coterminous with required front, side or rear
yards, and in case of conflict, the larger yard requirements shall
apply.
D. In all buffer yards, the exterior fifteen-foot width shall be planted
with grass seed, sod or ground cover and shall be maintained and kept
clean of all debris, rubbish, weeds and tall grass in conformance
with the Borough ordinance.
E. No structure, manufacturing or processing activity or storage of
materials shall be permitted in the buffer yard; however, parking
of passenger automobiles shall be permitted in the portion of the
buffer yard exclusive of the exterior fifteen-foot width.
F. All buffer yards shall include a dense screen planting of trees,
shrubs or other plant materials, or both, the full length of the lot
line to serve as a barrier to visibility, airborne particles, glare
and noise. Such screen planting shall be in accordance with the following
requirements:
(1) Plant materials used in the screen planting shall be at least four
feet in height when planted and be of such species as will produce,
within two years, a complete visual screen of at least eight feet
in height.
(2) The screen planting shall be maintained permanently, and any plant
material which does not live shall be replaced within one year.
(3) The screen planting shall be so placed that at maturity it will not
be closer than three feet to any street or property line.
(4) In accordance with the provisions of §
450-22, a clear sight triangle shall be maintained at all street intersections and at all points where private accessways intersect public streets.
(5) The screen planting shall be broken only at points of vehicular or
pedestrian access.
G. No screen planting shall be required along streets which form district
boundary lines, provided that:
(1) No outdoor processing or manufacturing activity and no outdoor storage
of materials shall be so located to be visible from the adjacent residential
districts.
(2) Only the front of any proposed building shall be visible from the
adjacent residential districts.
H. Prior to the issuance of any zoning permit, complete plans showing
the arrangement of all buffer yards and the placement, species and
size of all plant materials and the placement, size, materials and
type of all fences to be placed in such buffer yard shall be reviewed
by the Zoning Officer to ascertain that the plans are in conformance
with the terms of this chapter.