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.
A.
The sound level of any operation (other than the operation of motor
vehicles or other transportation facilities, operations involved in
the construction or demolition of structures, emergency alarm signals
or time signals) shall not exceed the decibel levels in the designated
octave bands as stated below. The sound-pressure level shall be measured
with a sound-level meter and an octave-band analyzer that conform
to specifications published by the American Standards Association.
American National Standard Specification for Sound-Level Meters, S1.4-1971,
American National Standards Institute, Inc., New York, New York, and
the American Standard Specification for Octave, Half Octave, and Third
Octave Band Filter Sets, S1.11-1966 (R 1971, American Standards Association,
Inc., New York, New York), shall be used.
B.
Sound-pressure levels shall be measured at the property line upon
which the emission occurs. The maximum permissible sound-pressure
levels for smooth and continuous noise shall be as follows:
|
Frequency Band
(cycles per second)
|
Maximum Permitted Sound-Pressure Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 150
|
67
| |
|
150 to 300
|
59
| |
|
300 to 600
|
52
| |
|
1,200 to 2,400
|
40
| |
|
2,400 to 4,800
|
34
| |
|
Above 4,800
|
32
|
C.
If the noise is not smooth and continuous or is radiated during sleeping
hours, one or more of the corrections below shall be added to or subtracted
from each of the decibel levels given above:
|
Type of Operation or Character of Noise
|
Correction
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Noise occurs between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
|
-3
| |
|
Noise occurs less than 5% of any 1-hour period
|
+5
| |
|
Noise is of periodic character (hum, scream, etc.) or is of
impulsive character (hammering, etc.) (In the case of impulsive noise,
the correction shall apply only to the average pressure during an
impulse, and impulse peaks shall not exceed the basic standards given
above.)
|
-5
|
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.
A.
The emission of dust, dirt, fly ash, fumes, vapors or gases which
can cause any damage to human health, to animals or vegetation or
to other forms of property or which can cause any soiling or staining
of persons or property at any point beyond the lot line of the use
creating the emission is herewith prohibited.
B.
No emission of liquid or solid particles from any chimney or other
source shall exceed 0.3 grain per cubic foot of the covering gas at
any point beyond the lot line of the use creating the emission. For
measurement of the amount of particles in gases resulting from combustion,
standard correction shall be applied to a stack temperature of 500°
F. and 50% excess air in stack at full load.
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.[1]
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:
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.
A.
No highly flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases shall be
stored in bulk above ground, except tanks or drums of fuel directly
in connection with energy devices, heating or appliances located or
operated on the same lot as the tanks or drums of fuel.
B.
All outdoor storage facilities for fuel, raw materials and products
and all fuel, raw materials and products stored outdoors shall be
enclosed by an approved safety fence.
C.
No materials or wastes shall be deposited upon a lot in such form
or manner that they may be transferred off the lot by natural causes
or forces, nor shall any substance which can contaminate a stream
or watercourse or otherwise render such stream or watercourse undesirable
as a source of water supply or recreation or which will destroy aquatic
life be allowed to enter any stream or watercourse.
D.
All materials or wastes which might cause fumes or dust or which
constitute a fire hazard or which may be edible or otherwise attractive
to rodents or insects shall be stored outdoors only if enclosed in
containers adequate to eliminate such hazards.
