Use Regulations. Any building or premises may be used for any purpose not in conflict with any ordinance of Rock Port, regulating nuisances or laws of the State of Missouri; provided, however, that no building shall be erected, converted, reconstructed or structurally altered for church, library, school, hospital, or residential purposes, except for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises and except for farms; provided, that no building or occupancy permit shall be issued for any of the following uses or manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of the following products until and unless the location of such use shall have been approved by the Board of Aldermen after public hearing and report by the City Plan Commission as provided in Section
400.140. The Board shall review the plans and statements and shall not permit such buildings, structures, or uses until it has been shown that the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare will be properly protected, and that necessary safeguards will be provided for the protection of surrounding property and persons. The Board of Aldermen in reviewing the plans and statements shall consult with other agencies created for the promotion of public health and safety:
Chemicals, Petroleum, Coal, and Allied Products
Acid and derivatives
Acetylene
Ammonia
Carbide
Caustic soda
Cellulose and cellulose storage
Chlorine
Coke oven products (including fuel gas) and coke oven products storage
Cresote
Distillation, manufacture, or refining of coal, tar, asphalt, wood and bones
Explosives (including ammunition and fireworks) and explosives' storage
Fertilizer (organic)
Fish oils and meal
Glue, gelatin (animal)
Hydrogen and oxygen
Lamp black, carbon black and bone black
Nitrating of cotton or other materials
Nitrates (manufactured and natural) of an explosive nature, and storage
Petroleum, gasoline and lubricating oil refining, and wholesale storage
Plastic materials and synthetic resins
Potash
Pyroxylin
Rendering and storage of dead animals, offal, garbage, or waste products
Turpentine and resin
Wells, gas and oil
Clay, Stone, and Glass Products
Brick, firebrick, refractories, and clay products (coal fired)
Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of Paris
Minerals and earths: quarrying, extracting, grinding, crushing and processing
Food and Beverage
Fat rendering
Fish curing, packing and storage
Slaughtering of animals
Starch manufacture
Metals and Metal Products
Aluminum powder, and paint manufacture
Blast furnace, cupolas
Blooming mill
Metal and metal ores, reduction, refining, smelting and alloying
Scrap metal reduction or smelting
Steel works and rolling mill (ferrous)
Wood and Paper Products
Match manufacture
Wood pulp, and fiber, reduction and processing
Unclassified Industries and Uses
Hair, hides and raw fur, curing, tanning, dressing, dyeing, and storage
Stockyards
Junk yards and auto wrecking yards, provided that a solid fence six (6) feet in height will be constructed around the perimeter of the area and that the storage of junk or parts will not exceed the height of the fence