§ 3-9-71. Essential services.

Essential services shall be permitted in CG, CT, IG and II zoning districts and permitted by special exception in AG, EM, ES, RMF-T, OMI, RE, RSF, RMF, MHP, MHC, RVP and CN zoning districts. The term "essential services" shall include utility facilities, including sewage treatment plants and lift stations, water wells, storage tanks, pumping stations, and water treatment plants; electric generating plants, distribution, equipment storage and transformer stations; gas pumping, metering, processing, distribution and storage; and telephone and cable television facilities. The term shall not include water wells, treatment plants, and septic tanks which are not associated with a utility facility, nor shall it include transmission and distribution lines. Essential services shall be required to comply with all other requirements as set forth within the land development regulations. The following standards shall also apply:

(1)

New sewage treatment plants shall be no closer than five hundred (500) feet to any residential structure. Expansion to existing sewage treatment plants shall be exempt from this setback requirement. Additionally, sewage treatment plants, when a part of a manufactured home park or a recreational vehicle park, shall be exempt from the above setback requirement.

(2)

New water treatment plants shall be located no closer than two hundred (200) feet to any residential structure. Expansion to existing water treatment plants shall be exempt from this setback requirement.

(3)

Holding ponds required for the operation of sewage treatment facilities shall be required to be set back a minimum one hundred (100) feet from any residential structure, or fifty (50) feet from the residential property line, whichever is greater. Measurement shall be from the residential structure or property line to the edge of the water.

(4)

No variance to the above minimum setback requirements shall be allowed.

(Minutes of 12-8-81, § 8; Ord. No. 89-47, § 7, 6-22-89; Ord. No. 91-06, § 2, 2-26-91; Ord. No. 2014-041, § 1(Exh. A), 11-25-14; Ord. No. 2015-007, § 1(Exh. A), 2-24-15)