No business or industrial use shall hereafter
be maintained, established, altered, moved or expanded unless it complies
with the performance standards set forth in this article. Continued
conformance with such standards shall be a requirement for the continuance
of any certificate of occupancy. Central utility systems serving three
or more dwelling units, including but not limited to systems providing
heat, water, air conditioning and electric power, shall be deemed
to be nonresidential uses for the purposes of this article.
Consistent with the general purposes of this
chapter, performance standards shall set specific controls on potentially
objectionable external aspects of business and industrial uses so
as to:
A. Reduce to a reasonable minimum the dissemination of
smoke, gas, dust, odor or other atmospheric pollutant outside the
building in which the use is conducted.
B. Control noise perceptible beyond the boundaries of
the site of the use.
C. Prevent the discharge of untreated or insufficiently
treated wastes into any watercourse.
D. Prevent the dissemination of vibration, heat or electromagnetic
interference beyond the immediate site on which the use of located.
E. Prevent physical hazard by reason of fire, explosion,
radiation or any similar cause.
F. Regulate and control the generation and flow of vehicular
traffic so as to prevent hazardous conditions, traffic congestion
and excessive noise in the streets.