This article permits specific uses in specific districts; and these performance standards are designed to limit, restrict, and prohibit the effects of those uses outside their premises or district. No structure, land, or water shall be used except in compliance with their district regulations and with the following performance standards.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-100)

No activity shall emit any fly ash, dust, fumes, vapors, mists, or gases in such quantities as to cause soiling or danger to the health of persons, animals, vegetation, or other forms of property. No activity shall emit any liquid or solid particles in concentrations exceeding 0.3 grains per cubic foot of the conveying gas nor any color visible smoke equal to or darker than No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart described in the United States Bureau of Mine's Information Circular 7718 in any industrial district.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-101)

All activities involving the manufacturing, utilization, processing, or storage of inflammable and explosive materials shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion and with adequate firefighting and fire-suppression equipment and devices that are standard in the industry. All materials that range from active to intense burning shall be manufactured, utilized, processed, and stored only in completely enclosed buildings which have incombustible exterior walls and an automatic fire extinguishing system.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-102)

Any operation producing intense glare or heat, such as combustion or welding, shall be performed within a completely enclosed building in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance or hazard across lot lines. Exposed sources of light shall be shielded so as not to create a nuisance across lot lines. Illumination which has its source in a manufacturing district shall, in no case, be permitted to exceed 0.1 footcandle in an adjoining residence district.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-103)

No activity shall discharge at any point onto any land or into any water or public sewer any materials of such nature, quantity, noxiousness, toxicity, or temperature which can contaminate, pollute, or harm the quantity or quality of any water supply, can cause the emission of dangerous of offensive elements, can overload the existing municipal utilities, or can injure or damage persons or property.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-104)

(a)

No activity shall produce a sound level outside the district boundary that exceeds the following sound level measured by a sound level meter and associated octave band filter:

(b)

All noise shall be so muffled or otherwise controlled as not to become objectionable due to intermittence, duration, beat frequency, impulse character, periodic character or shrillness.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-105)

No activity shall emit any odorous matter of such nature or quantity as to be offensive, obnoxious, or unhealthful outside their premises.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-106)

No activity shall emit radioactivity or electrical disturbances outside its premises that are dangerous or adversely affect the use of neighboring premises.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-107)

No activity in any district shall emit vibrations which are discernible without instruments outside its premises.

(Code 1986, § 10-1-108)