Saukville Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XI
Performance Standards
§ 205-102 Compliance required.
This chapter 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. All structures, land, air, and waters shall hereafter, in addition to their use and site regulations, comply with the following performance standards.
§ 205-103 Air pollution.
No person or activity shall emit any fly ash, dust, fumes, vapors, mists, or gases in such quantities so as to substantially contribute to exceeding state or federal air pollution standards.
§ 205-104 Fire and explosive hazards
All activities involving the manufacturing, utilization, processing, or storage of flammable or explosive materials shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion and with adequate fire-fighting 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, or stored only within completely enclosed buildings which have incombustible exterior walls and an automatic fire-extinguishing system. The aboveground storage capacity of materials that produce flammable or explosive vapors shall not exceed 50,000 gallons.
§ 205-105 Glare and heat.
No activity shall emit glare or heat that is visible or measurable outside its premises except activities which may emit direct or sky-reflected glare which shall not be visible outside their district. All operations producing intense glare or heat shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building. Exposed sources of light shall be shielded so as not to be visible outside their premises.
§ 205-106 Water quality protection.
A.
No activity shall locate, store, discharge, or permit the discharge of any treated, untreated, or inadequately treated liquid, gaseous, or solid materials of such nature, quantity, obnoxiousness, toxicity or temperature that might run off, seep, percolate, or wash into surface or subsurface waters so as to contaminate, pollute, or harm such waters or cause nuisances, such as objectionable shore deposits, floating or submerged debris, oil or scum, color, odor, taste, or unsightliness, or be harmful to human, animal, plant, or aquatic life.
§ 205-107 Noise.
A.
No activity in any manufacturing district shall produce a sound level outside the district boundary that exceeds the following sound level measured by a sound level meter and associated octave level filter:
Octave Band Frequency (cycles per second) | Sound Level (decibels) | |
|---|---|---|
0 to 75 | 79 | |
76 to 150 | 74 | |
151 to 300 | 66 | |
301 to 600 | 59 | |
601 to 1,200 | 53 | |
1,201 to 2,400 | 47 | |
2,401 to 4,800 | 41 | |
Above 4,800 | 39 |
B.
No activity in any other district shall produce a sound level outside its premises that exceeds the following:
Octave Band Frequency (cycles per second) | Sound Level (decibels) | |
|---|---|---|
0 to 75 | 72 | |
76 to 150 | 67 | |
151 to 300 | 59 | |
301 to 600 | 52 | |
601 to 1,200 | 46 | |
1,201 to 2,400 | 40 | |
2,401 to 4,800 | 34 | |
Above 4,800 | 32 |
C.
All noise shall be so muffled or otherwise controlled as not to become objectionable due to intermittence, duration, beat frequency, impulse character, periodic character of shrillness. Sirens, whistles, and bells which are maintained and utilized solely to serve a public purpose are exempt from the sound level standards set forth in this section.
§ 205-108 Odors.
No activity shall emit any odorous matter of such nature or quantity as to be offensive, obnoxious, or unhealthful outside its premises. The guide for determining odor measurement and control shall be based on Chapter NR 154 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code and amendments thereto.
§ 205-109 Radioactivity and electrical disturbances.
No activity shall emit radioactivity or electrical disturbances outside its premises that are dangerous or adversely affect the use of neighboring premises.
§ 205-110 Vibration.
No activity in any district shall emit vibrations which are discernible without instruments outside its premises. No activity shall emit vibrations which exceed the following displacement measured with a three-component measuring system:
Displacement (inches) | ||
|---|---|---|
Frequency (cycles per second) | Outside the Premises | Outside the District |
0 to 10 | .0020 | .0004 |
11 to 20 | .0010 | .0002 |
21 to 30 | .0006 | .0001 |
31 to 40 | .0004 | .0001 |
41 to 50 | .0003 | .0001 |
Over 50 | .0002 | .0001 |
§ 205-111 Lighting.
No exterior lighting used for parking lots, recreational facilities, product display, or security shall be permitted to spill over on operators of motor vehicles, pedestrians, and uses of land in vicinity of the light source. These requirements shall not apply to lighting placed in a public right-of-way for public safety or approved municipal recreation facilities.
A.
Type. Shielded luminaries, or luminaries with cutoff optics, and careful fixture placement shall be required so as to facilitate compliance with this section.
B.
Orientation. Exterior lighting fixtures shall be oriented so that the lighting element (or a transparent shield) does not throw rays onto neighboring properties. Light rays shall not be directed into street rights-of-way or upward into the atmosphere.
C.
Minimum lighting standards. All areas designated on approved site plans for vehicular parking, loading, or circulation and used for any such purpose after sunset shall provide artificial illumination in such areas at a minimum intensity of 0.4 footcandle, exclusive of approved anti-vandal lighting. This standard shall not apply to properties in agricultural and single-family residential districts.
D.
Intensity of illumination. The intensity of illumination, measured at the property line, shall not exceed 0.5 footcandle.
E.
Location. Light fixtures shall not be permitted within required buffer yards.
F.
Flashing, flickering, and other distracting lighting which may distract motorists is prohibited.
G.
Nuisances. Lighting which creates or becomes a public nuisance is not permitted.
H.
Low voltage accent lighting (12 volts or less) is exempt from these requirements.
J.
Recreation or sports lighting must be turned off at 10:30 p.m.