Niagara City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VI
Design and Performance Standards for All Industrial Districts
§ 245-33 Design standards.
In addition to the required site plan (Appendix B[1]), the following standards shall apply:
A.
Yard requirements for lots adjoining residential districts. On lots adjoining residential districts, no building, storage or assembly area shall be located closer than 100 feet to such district boundary. Parking areas shall not be located closer than 25 feet to such district boundary. This area shall include planted screening or a buffer strip as required and the remainder in lawn or ground cover, shrubbery and trees as may be deemed necessary by the Planning Board.
B.
Landscaping along public streets or roads. Each property shall be appropriately landscaped, particularly along its frontage upon a public street or road.
D.
Entrances and exits. All entrances and exits upon a public street or road shall not be located within 100 feet of any street intersection. No entrance or exit, at the curbline only, shall be closer than 12 feet to a side lot line. Entrance and exit sizes, locations and construction shall also be in accordance with requirements of the governmental agency having jurisdiction over the facility upon which the permitted use has frontage.
E.
Loading docks and service areas. No loading dock or service area may be on any street frontage. Provision for handling all freight shall be on those sides of any building which do not face on any street or proposed streets.
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix B is included at the end of this chapter.
§ 245-34 Performance standards.
A.
Storage.
(1)
No use or accessory use shall be constructed to permit the keeping of articles, goods or materials in the open or exposed to public view of adjacent residences or a residential district. When necessary to store or keep such materials in the open, the area shall be fenced with a screen or buffer strip and be situated not closer than 50 feet to a residential district line.
(2)
No highly flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases shall be stored in bulk above ground, with the exception of tanks or drums of fuel directly connected to energy devices, heating devices or appliances located on the same lot as the tanks or drums of fuel.
B.
Control of dust, dirt, fumes, vapors and gases. 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 or 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.
C.
Odor control. There shall be no emission of odorous gases or other odorous matter in such quantities as to be offensive at any point on or beyond the lot boundary line within which the industrial operation is situated. Any process which may involve the creation or emission of any odors shall be provided with a secondary safeguard system, in order that control will be maintained if the primary safeguard system should fail.
D.
Glare and heat control. No industrial use shall carry on an operation that would produce heat or glare beyond the property line of the lot on which the industrial operation is situated.
E.
Vibration control. Machines or operations which cause vibrations shall be permitted, but in no case shall any such vibration be perceptible beyond the district boundary of any industrial district.
F.
Electrical emission, radioactivity or electrical disturbance. No activities shall be permitted which emit dangerous radioactivity beyond enclosed areas. No electrical disturbances (except from domestic household appliances) shall be permitted to affect adversely, at any point, any equipment, other than that of the creator of such disturbance.
G.
Power distribution. Every use requiring power shall be so operated that any service lines, substation, etc., shall conform to the highest applicable safety requirements, shall be constructed, installed, etc., so that they will be an integral part of the architectural features of the plant or, if visible from abutting residential properties, shall be concealed by evergreen planting or screening with architectural materials common to the building(s).