The following uses shall be permitted in the Industrial District:
A.
Manufacturing, assembling, converting, altering, finishing,
cleaning or any other processing, handling or storage of products and materials.
B.
Building materials' storage, lumber yards and lumber
mills.
C.
Freight and truck terminals, distribution plants, warehousing
and wholesaling facilities.
D.
Printing, bookbinding and newspaper publishing.
E.
Research and design offices and laboratories.
F.
All uses similar to the above and not otherwise prohibited.
G.
Accessory uses and buildings customarily incidental to
the above uses, including dwellings only for bona fide caretakers or watchmen.
H.
Lodges and fraternal orders.
I.
Health clubs, health spas and other similar establishments,
subject to the requirements of § 150-80.
[Added 7-8-1997 by Ord. No. 246]
J.
Public utilities (i.e., sewer, water, gas, etc.).
[Added 3-27-2001 by Ord. No. 270]
K.
Federal, state and local government offices and accessory uses,
and other municipal essential services (i.e., fire, police, nonprofit recreational
facilities, etc.).
[Added 1-25-2005 by Ord. No. 291]
L.
Public schools and essential uses, provided that all outside
active play areas are screened from adjacent properties.
[Added 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 304]
M.
Truck stops. A facility designed especially to be used for long-distance
truck drivers that may include but is not limited to restaurants, fuel pumps,
repair garage, truck service etc.
[Added 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
N.
Truck, semitrailer and full trailer sales.
[Added 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
O.
Uses where the primary business involves truck traffic, including
but not limited to semitrucks, tractor-trailers, eighteen-wheelers, etc.
[Added 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
Conditional uses in the Industrial District shall be as follows:
B.
Resource recovery facilities.
C.
Chemical manufacturing and storage, including but not
limited to those chemicals listed in § 150-46B.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection D, which provided for public utilities
as a conditional use, added 10-24-1995 by Ord. No. 238, and which immediately
followed this subsection, was repealed 3-27-2001 by Ord. No. 270.
All proposed industrial uses shall meet or exceed all of the following
requirements:
A.
Buffer zones.
(1)
The buffer zone shall be measured from the district boundary
line or right-of-way line, if not coexistent with the district boundary line.
(2)
A minimum buffer zone of 200 feet shall be provided along
any common property line adjacent to the Low Density, Medium Density or Community
Commercial District.
[Amended 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 304]
(3)
A minimum buffer zone of 200 feet shall be provided along S.R.
0011 (Molly Pitcher Highway), S.R. 0016 (Buchanan Trail), S.R. 3006 (Milnor
Road), and S.R. 2002 (Leitersburg Road).
[Added 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 304[1]]
(4)
Buffer zones around residential buildings. A minimum buffer zone
of 200 feet shall be provided adjacent to any existing residential building
and/or public water supply source no matter what zoning district they are
located in.
[Added 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 304]
(5)
The buffer zone shall be maintained and kept clean of
debris, rubbish, weeds and other unsightly features.
(6)
No building, structure or physical improvement shall
be permitted in the buffer zone except:
(a)
An access drive.
(b)
A stormwater facility.
(c)
A permitted sign.
(d)
An office building which is an accessory to the industrial use
and not attached to any buildings need only have a one-hundred-foot buffer
from the right-of-way line.
[Added 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 304;
amended 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
(e)
An office building that is located in the required buffer zone
may have a twenty-foot-wide attached walkway and/or corridor (enclosed or
not enclosed) to the manufacturing plant.
[Added 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
(f)
Parking lots shall be allowed in the buffer zone and shall maintain
a fifty-foot buffer measured from the right-of-way line and/or property line.
[Added 1-23-2007 by Ord. No. 306]
(7)
No less than the exterior half of the buffer area shall
be planted and maintained with grass or ground cover, massed evergreens and
deciduous trees and shrubs of such species and size as will produce, within
two growing seasons, a screen at least four feet in height and of such density
as will obscure throughout the full course of the year all of the glare of
automobile headlights emitted from the premises. The preservation of all natural
wooded tracts, rock outcroppings or topographic features shall be an integral
part of all said plans regardless of their proximity to required buffer zones.
(a)
Massed evergreens used in screen planting shall be at
least four feet in height and three trees in depth when planted and produce
a complete visual screen year round.
(b)
The screen planting shall be maintained permanently and
any plant material which does not live shall be replaced within one year.
(c)
The screen planting shall be so placed that at maturity
it will be no closer than three feet from any street or property line.
(d)
A clear sight triangle shall be maintained at all street
intersections and at all points where private accessways intersect public
streets.
(e)
The screen planting shall be broken only at points of
vehicular and pedestrian ingress and egress.
(8)
No screen planting shall be required along street frontages
unless the subject property abuts a residential district or residential use.
B.
Drainage. No stormwater or natural drainage which originates
on the property or water generated by the activity (e.g., air conditioners,
swimming pools) shall be diverted across property lines unless transported
in an approved or existing drainage system.
C.
Electricity. Electric or electronic equipment shall be
shielded so there is no interference with any radio or television reception
at the lot line or beyond as the result of the operation of such equipment.
D.
Glare. No use shall produce a strong dazzling light or
a reflection of a strong dazzling light or glare beyond its lot lines. Exterior
lighting shall be shielded, buffered and directed so that glare will not become
a nuisance to adjoining properties, adjoining districts or streets.
E.
Radioactivity. Any proposed activity in this district
shall not emit any dangerous radioactivity at any point on the site.
F.
Vibration. There shall be no vibration which is discernible
to the human sense of feeling beyond the immediate site on which such use
is conducted.
G.
Fire and explosion hazard. All activities shall be carried
out in buildings, structures and improvements which conform to the standards
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Furthermore, protection against
fire and explosion shall be upon the advice of the Franklin County Fire Marshal
and the local fire company serving the area of the site.
H.
Traffic control. All design traffic volumes shall be
determined by accepted procedures of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
The design hourly volume and the average annual daily traffic count data shall
be used as a basis of computation. Geometric design features shall be consistent
with the design speed and capacities of streets serving the site. Minimum
stopping, turning and passing sight distances shall be determined. Grades,
alignments, lanes, slopes, clearance and other street standards shall be consistent
with Chapter 125, Subdivision and Land Development. Traffic control devices
(signs, signals, pavement markings, etc.) shall be consistent with the Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, American Association of State Highway
Officials in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Anticipated traffic generation shall not exceed the design volume of the street
or streets serving the site and surrounding area, unless appropriate provisions
to upgrade and to construct necessary street provisions consistent with Antrim
Township Street Specifications are provided.
I.
Storage of explosives or flammable substances and waste
disposal.
(1)
No highly flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases
shall be stored in bulk above the ground except in structures according to
commonwealth and federal specifications.
(2)
All outdoor storage facilities for fuel shall be enclosed
by an approved safety fence to prevent access thereto by unauthorized individuals.
(3)
All materials or wastes which might cause fumes, constitute
a fire hazard, or attract rodents or insects may only be stored in enclosed
buildings or containers which are adequate to eliminate such hazards.
(4)
No materials, fuel, wastes or flammable substances may
be deposited or stored on a lot in such a manner as to allow them to be transferred
off the lot by natural causes or forces. No substances, including but not
limited to gasoline, alcohol, oil, waste oil and chemicals which can contaminate
a stream or water source unusual or undesirable as a source of water supply,
recreation or which will destroy or damage aquatic life, shall be stored in
such a location so that it could be introduced into said stream or watercourse
by natural causes or forces or by rupture of storage containers or accidental
discharge.
J.
Noise control. The sound level of any operation shall
not exceed the decibel levels of the preferred frequencies cited below or
as modified or exempted. The sound-pressure level shall be measured with an
octave bank analyzer calibrated in the preferred frequencies conforming to
the specifications published by the American Standards Association (Preferred
Frequencies for Acoustical Measurement, SI 6-1960, American Standards Association,
New York, New York).
(1)
Standards. At no point on the district boundary of or
at any point shall the sound-pressure level resulting from any operation exceed
the maximum permitted sound levels set forth below unless expressly waived
in Subsection J(2)(b) below.
[Amended 7-8-1997 by Ord. No. 246]
|
Center Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Maximum Sound-Pressure Level
(decibels)1
| |
|---|---|---|
|
31.5
|
65
| |
|
63
|
67
| |
|
125
|
66
| |
|
250
|
59
| |
|
500
|
52
| |
|
1,000
|
46
| |
|
2,000
|
37
| |
|
4,000
|
26
| |
|
8,000
|
17
|
|
1
|
Sound-pressure level in decibels equals 0.0002 dynes/cm2)
|
K.
Odor control. There shall be no emission of odorous gases
or other odorous material of any nature in such quantities as to be offensive
to the average individual at any point on or beyond the lot boundary line
within which the industrial operation is situated. Identical operations or
processes may be compared to determine compliance with this subsection. This
subsection shall not apply to the storage or application of manure by agricultural
operations in this district.
L.
Dust, fumes, vapor and gas control. The emission of dust,
dirt, fly ash, fumes, vapors or gases which can cause any damage to human
health, to animals or to vegetation or to other forms of property, or which
can cause soiling or staining of persons or property at any point beyond the
lot line of the use creating such emission is hereby prohibited. No emission
of liquid or solid particulate from any chimney or stack or otherwise shall
exceed 0.03 grains per cubic foot of the covering gas at any point beyond
the lot line of the use creating the emission. Identical processes or facilities
may be compared to determine compliance with this subsection. For measurement
for the amount of particles discharged as set forth above, measurement procedures
shall follow those then employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection for similar or identical measurements.
M.
Smoke control. No smoke shall be emitted from any chimney
or from any other source which has a visible gray opacity greater than Number
1 on the Ringlemann Smoke Chart as published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines,
as amended to the time of the application for building permit. Identical operations
or processes may be compacted to determine compliance with this subsection.
N.
Liquid and solid wastes. No operation shall discharge
wastes of any kind into a surface water or groundwater source. All methods
of waste disposal shall be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection. Evidence of such approval shall be provided.
