The performance standards in this division are established to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the public by creating an objective and equitable basis to control potentially hazardous and nuisance-like effects of various land uses and to ensure that the community is adequately protected. These performance standards may have the effect of limiting, restricting, and prohibiting the ways in which otherwise permissible land uses may operate. In addition to these established standards, there may be other applicable local, state, and federal codes and standards that also apply.
A. 
Applicability. The odor control standards established in this section apply to all land uses and activities, except where the odor is created by food cooking; the construction of a principal use on the subject property; the application of fertilizers; or incidental traffic, parking, loading, or maintenance operations. Public utilities and services that are otherwise allowed under this Code are essential public services and are therefore also exempt.
B. 
Standards. No odors shall be created for periods exceeding a total of 15 minutes per any day that are detectable (by a healthy observer such as the Zoning Administrator who is unaffected by background odors such as tobacco or food) at the boundary of the subject property, where such property is located in a residential, institutional, or commercial zoning district or the Light Industrial (LI) District.
A. 
Applicability. The air pollution standards established in this section apply to all land uses and activities, except where the air pollution is created during the construction of a principal use on the subject property, or by incidental traffic, parking, loading, or maintenance operations.
B. 
Standards.
(1) 
The emission of particulate matter containing a particle diameter larger than 44 microns is prohibited.
(2) 
Emission of smoke or particulate matter of a density equal to or greater than Number 2 on the Ringelmann Chart (U.S. Bureau of Mines) is prohibited at all times.
(3) 
Dust and other types of air pollution borne by the wind from such sources as storage areas, yards, and roads within the boundaries of any lot shall be controlled by appropriate landscaping, paving, oiling, or other acceptable means as determined by the reviewing authority.
A. 
Applicability. The standards for fire and explosive hazards established in this section apply to all land uses and activities.
B. 
Standards.
(1) 
Any use involving materials which could decompose by detonation shall be located not less than 400 feet from any residential or commercial zoning district, except that this standard shall not apply to the storage or usage of liquefied petroleum or natural gas for normal residential or business purposes.
(2) 
Flammable and explosive materials at any point shall be provided with adequate safety and firefighting devices consistent with all fire prevention codes of the State of Wisconsin.
(3) 
All materials that range from active to intense burning shall be manufactured, utilized, processed, and stored only in completely enclosed buildings which have noncombustible exterior walls and an automatic fire extinguishing system.
(4) 
The storage of fuels and other materials that produce flammable or explosive vapors shall be permitted only after review and approval by the Richfield Volunteer Fire Company and in accordance with its requirements to minimize fire and explosive hazards.
A. 
Applicability. The standards for glare and heat established in this section apply to all land uses and activities, except where glare is created during the construction of a principal use on the subject property, or by incidental traffic, parking, loading, or maintenance operations.
B. 
Standards.
(1) 
No direct or sky-reflected glare shall be visible at the lot line of the subject property, whether from floodlights or from temperature processes, such as combustion, welding, or otherwise.
(2) 
As determined by the Zoning Administrator, there shall be no discernible transmission of heat or heated air at the lot line.
A. 
Applicability. The standards for water quality established in this section apply to all land uses and activities.
B. 
Standards.
(1) 
No activity shall locate, store, 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 runoff, 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.
(2) 
No activity shall withdraw water or discharge any liquid or solid materials so as to exceed or contribute toward exceeding the minimum standards and those other standards and the application of those standards set forth in Ch. NR 102, Wis. Admin. Code, or in other applicable chapters which regulate water quality.
A. 
Applicability. The requirements of this section apply to all uses and activities, except those vibrations created during the construction of the principal use on the subject property.
B. 
Requirements. No physical vibration emanating on a property that is above the vibration perception threshold of an individual shall pass beyond the property line of such property. "Vibration perception threshold" means the minimum ground- or structure-borne vibrational motion necessary to cause a reasonable person to be aware of the vibration by such direct means as, but not limited to, sensation by touch or visual observation of moving objects.
(Reserved)