Penns Grove City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
Performance Standards
§ 450-39 Compliance required.
All uses and activities established after the effective date of this chapter shall comply with the following standards.
§ 450-40 Structure orientation and siting.
[Added 11-16-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-25]
A.
In reviewing applications for building permits, consideration shall be given to the positioning and orientation of structures. The design and layout of principal and accessory structures and parking areas shall be reviewed to provide an aesthetically pleasing design and efficient arrangement.
B.
The layout of the structures and parking areas shall have substantially the same orientation as the surrounding buildings in the neighborhood.
C.
Requests for deviation from these standards shall require site plan approval from the Planning Board.
§ 450-41 Noise.
A.
The sound level of any operation (other than the operation of motor vehicles or other transportation facilities, operations involved in the construction or demolition of structures, emergency alarm signals or time signals) shall not exceed the decibel levels in the designated octave bands as stated below. The sound-pressure level shall be measured with a sound-level meter and an octave-band analyzer that conform to specifications published by the American Standards Association. American National Standard Specification for Sound-Level Meters, S1.4-1971, American National Standards Institute, Inc., New York, New York, and the American Standard Specification for Octave, Half Octave, and Third Octave Band Filter Sets, S1.11-1966 (R 1971, American Standards Association, Inc., New York, New York), shall be used.
B.
Sound-pressure levels shall be measured at the property line upon which the emission occurs. The maximum permissible sound-pressure levels for smooth and continuous noise shall be as follows:
Frequency Band (cycles per second) | Maximum Permitted Sound-Pressure Level (decibels) | |
|---|---|---|
0 to 150 | 67 | |
150 to 300 | 59 | |
300 to 600 | 52 | |
1,200 to 2,400 | 40 | |
2,400 to 4,800 | 34 | |
Above 4,800 | 32 |
C.
If the noise is not smooth and continuous or is radiated during sleeping hours, one or more of the corrections below shall be added to or subtracted from each of the decibel levels given above:
Type of Operation or Character of Noise | Correction (decibels) | |
|---|---|---|
Noise occurs between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. | -3 | |
Noise occurs less than 5% of any 1-hour period | +5 | |
Noise is of periodic character (hum, scream, etc.) or is of impulsive character (hammering, etc.) (In the case of impulsive noise, the correction shall apply only to the average pressure during an impulse, and impulse peaks shall not exceed the basic standards given above.) | -5 |
§ 450-42 Smoke.
No smoke shall be emitted from any chimney or other source of visible gray opacity greater than No. 1 on the Ringelmann Smoke Chart as published by the United States Bureau of Mines, except that smoke of a shade not darker than No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart may be emitted for not more than four minutes in any thirty-minute period.
§ 450-43 Emissions.
A.
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 of 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.
B.
No emission of liquid or solid particles from any chimney or other source shall exceed 0.3 grain per cubic foot of the covering gas at any point beyond the lot line of the use creating the emission. For measurement of the amount of particles in gases resulting from combustion, standard correction shall be applied to a stack temperature of 500° F. and 50% excess air in stack at full load.
§ 450-44 Heat.
No use shall produce heat perceptible beyond its lot lines.
§ 450-45 Offensive odors.
No use shall emit odorous gases or other odorous matter in such quantities as to be offensive at any point on or beyond its lot lines. The guide for determining such quantities of offensive odors shall be the 50% response level of Table 1 (Odor Thresholds in Air), Research on Chemical Odors: Part 1, Odor Thresholds for 53 Commercial Chemicals, October 1968, Manufacturing Chemists Association, Inc., Washington, D.C.
§ 450-46 Glare.
No use shall produce a strong, dazzling light or a reflection of a strong, dazzling light beyond its lot lines.
§ 450-47 Vibrations.
No use shall cause earth vibrations or concussions detectable beyond its lot lines without the aid of instruments, with the exception of that vibration produced as a result of construction activity.
§ 450-48 Buffer yards.
Buffer yards are required in all COS and H-C/I Districts along the district boundaries between themselves and residential districts. No commercial and industrial uses shall hereafter be established, nor shall existing uses be expanded, unless they meet the following buffer yard regulations:
A.
The buffer yard shall be measured from the district boundary line or from the near street line where a street serves as the district boundary line.
B.
Buffer yards shall be not less than 15 feet in width in the COS District and not less than 30 feet in the H-C/I District.
C.
The buffer yard may be coterminous with required front, side or rear yards, and in case of conflict, the larger yard requirements shall apply.
E.
No structure, manufacturing or processing activity or storage of materials shall be permitted in the buffer yard; however, parking of passenger automobiles shall be permitted in the portion of the buffer yard exclusive of the exterior fifteen-foot width.
F.
All buffer yards shall include a dense screen planting of trees, shrubs or other plant materials, or both, the full length of the lot line to serve as a barrier to visibility, airborne particles, glare and noise. Such screen planting shall be in accordance with the following requirements:
(1)
Plant materials used in the screen planting shall be at least four feet in height when planted and be of such species as will produce, within two years, a complete visual screen of at least eight feet in height.
(2)
The screen planting shall be maintained permanently, and any plant material which does not live shall be replaced within one year.
(3)
The screen planting shall be so placed that at maturity it will not be closer than three feet to any street or property line.
(4)
In accordance with the provisions of § 450-22, a clear sight triangle shall be maintained at all street intersections and at all points where private accessways intersect public streets.
(5)
The screen planting shall be broken only at points of vehicular or pedestrian access.
G.
No screen planting shall be required along streets which form district boundary lines, provided that:
H.
Prior to the issuance of any zoning permit, complete plans showing the arrangement of all buffer yards and the placement, species and size of all plant materials and the placement, size, materials and type of all fences to be placed in such buffer yard shall be reviewed by the Zoning Officer to ascertain that the plans are in conformance with the terms of this chapter.
§ 450-49 Waste storage and disposal.
A.
No highly flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases shall be stored in bulk above ground, except tanks or drums of fuel directly in connection with energy devices, heating or appliances located or operated on the same lot as the tanks or drums of fuel.
B.
All outdoor storage facilities for fuel, raw materials and products and all fuel, raw materials and products stored outdoors shall be enclosed by an approved safety fence.
C.
No materials or wastes shall be deposited upon a lot in such form or manner that they may be transferred off the lot by natural causes or forces, nor shall any substance which can contaminate a stream or watercourse or otherwise render such stream or watercourse undesirable as a source of water supply or recreation or which will destroy aquatic life be allowed to enter any stream or watercourse.
D.
All materials or wastes which might cause fumes or dust or which constitute a fire hazard or which may be edible or otherwise attractive to rodents or insects shall be stored outdoors only if enclosed in containers adequate to eliminate such hazards.