Edison City Zoning Code
§ 37-4.21
Interference with Pipelines.
[1999 Code § 17.08.210]
a. DISTRIBUTION LINE GATHERING LINE PIPELINE SERVICE LINE TRANSMISSION LINE
Definitions. As used in this chapter:
Means a pipeline other than a gathering or transmission line.
Means a pipeline that transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line or main.
Means any conduit through which natural gas, petroleum, oxygen or other flammable or combustible products or any of their products is conveyed or intended to be conveyed. The definition of "pipeline" shall include compressor plants and other facilities integrated with pipeline operations.
Means a distribution line that transports natural gas from a common source of supply to a customer meter or the connection to a customer's piping, whichever is farther downstream, or to the connection to a customer's piping if there is not a customer meter. The "customer meter" is the meter that measures the transfer of gas from an operator to a customer.
Means a pipeline subject to pressures of one hundred twenty-five (125) or more pounds per square inch gauge, other than a gathering line, that:
b.
No building or land disturbance shall be permitted within seventy-five (75) feet of any distribution, gathering or transmission line, as defined in paragraph a. above.
c.
No building or structure or part thereof which is used for the manufacturing, processing, generation or storage of corrosive, highly toxic, oxidizing, pyrophoric, water-reactive, highly combustible, flammable or explosive materials that constitute a high fire, explosion or health hazard, including loose, combustible fibers, dust and unstable material, shall be constructed within one hundred twenty-five (125) feet of any distribution, gathering or transmission line.
d.
Exceptions and Exemptions. This subsection shall not apply to:
1.
Any building, land disturbance or construction involved in the crossing of a pipeline to provide access to a property when no other reasonable access is permitted and the crossing of a pipeline to provide utility services to a parcel of land;
2.
Any work done to any building, land disturbance or construction on a pipeline by or on behalf of the owner or operator of any pipeline.
e.
The approving board may permit the encroachment upon the buffer area provided for in this subsection upon a demonstration that the strict application of this section would result in particular and exceptional practical difficulties or undue hardship caused by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or shape of the property or by reason of exceptional topographic conditions or physical features uniquely affecting a property or by reason of extraordinary and exceptional situations uniquely affecting a property or the structures lawfully existing thereon.