No building or land shall be used for any of the following purposes:
A. Dwelling, other than for watchmen, custodians or caretakers employed
on the premises.
B. Church or other institution of religion.
C. School, except those operated for profit or incidental to the commercial
or industrial operations carried on in the premises.
D. Open-lot storage, sales or display of vehicles, merchandise or any
other item or items, unless the same is accessory to uses within an
enclosed building, and provided that the space devoted to accessory
uses, other than parking for employees or customers, which are not
within an enclosed building shall not exceed three times the space
occupied on the premises by enclosed buildings. Special exceptions
to this section may be granted by the Zoning Board of Adjustment in
the case of lots or tracts which are 8,000 square feet or more, permitting
the erection of buildings occupying at least 2,000 square feet of
land area, upon proof that the proposed open-lot use is accessory
to such buildings and not primary, and upon proof that there is no
detriment to the neighborhood.
E. The purchase, sale, loading, unloading, placing or storing of scrap
iron or other metals.
H. Storage, cleaning or servicing of outdoor toilets or tank trucks
used in the outdoor toilet or cesspool cleaning business.
I. Railway freight station, air freight station, motor freight station,
storage house or express, carting or hauling office or station when
authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
J. Handling, processing, land-filling, composting, incinerating, resource
recovery, transferring and/or storage of hazardous wastes, municipal
solid wastes, sanitary wastes and sewage sludges, infectious or chemotherapeutic
wastes, special handling or residual wastes, construction or demolition
wastes or contaminated soil except when authorized as a special exception.
Authorization as a special exception shall require compliance with
the operating standards established in Subsection 1405 of this section and require the applicant to produce convincing
evidence to the Zoning Hearing Board that the construction or operation
of a special exception facility, as provided herein, will not produce
a net increase in environmental pollution as compared to environmental
pollution at the time construction or operation of the facility commences.
K. Public or private garage, sales, service and repair shop and gas filling and battery service stations, excluding junkyards, provided that all repair work is carried on within an enclosed building when authorized by special exception and Chapter
217, Noise, Article
II, Noise Pollution.
L. Communications antennas mounted on an existing public utility transmission
tower, building or other structure, including existing communications
towers and communications equipment buildings.
No building shall exceed 100 feet in height, measured above
the curb level, provided that for each one foot of aggregate side
yard the height limit may be exceeded by one foot, subject to limitation
by the airport height restrictions.
Off-street loading and unloading space, with proper access from
a street or alley, shall be provided on any lot on which a building
for industry is hereafter erected or substantially altered.
The operating procedures set forth in Chapter
217, Noise, Article
II, Noise Pollution, are hereby adopted as part of the regulations in an H Industrial District, and an applicant for a special exception must comply strictly with the terms thereof.