Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Ordinance 1962-20V'ti.LAGLOF PLTKOW111 ORDINANCE NO. 61.20 An Ordinance Regulating and lAcensing Gasoline and Oil Service Stations is the village ON ply nouth. THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF PLYMOUTH DO HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOL- LOWS: Section 1.—Delinitimm The term "gasoline and oil ser- vice station" as used in this ordi- nance shall be deemed to include all premises whereon the owner or occupant conducts the business of furnishing and selling gasoline and lubricating oils or accessories for motor vehicles. Section 2.—Licause Required. 2.01 No person shall engage in the business of operating a gaso- line service station within the corporate limits of the Village of Plymouth unless he shall have se- cured a license to do so from the Village Council. 2.02 The application for such license shall state the name of the applicant and the name of the Person or corporation who will regularly supply the gasoline or oil to be sold upon the premises for which the license is requested and whether the applicant is a lesser- or owner of the premises. The application must be accom- panied by a plot plan and descrip- tion of the building and equip- ment proposed to be created on the premises to be licensed, if there is no existing service station on the premises. 2.08 The annual license fee for each gasoline service station at one location shall be $18.00, plus $5.00 for each gasoline pump or service outlet, in addition to or+e such pump or outlet. Section 8. Regulatons. 9.01 Buildings used at service stations a" be fireproof. No heating system installed in any service station sh.411 be used un- less first approved by '.he Chief of the Fire Department. There shall be no door or window lead- ing directly or Indirectly from any grease pit or grease room to any room or place where a heating system is located in a service sta- tion, and grease pits and grease rooms shall be heated by such indirect heating system as shall be approved by the Chief of the Fire Department; provided, how- ever, that unit heaters, using oil or natural gas for fuel, of a type listed by Underwriters Laborator- ies, Inc. for use In garages, air- plane hangars or similar locations, so suspended from the ceiling that the line of flame is a minimum of eight feet above the floor level, may be used in grease pits of grease rooms if approved by the Chief of the Fire Department. Buildings used at service stations for storage or sale of dangerous liquids shall be heated by steam or hot water, the heating plant to be enclosed within a fireproof room. 3.02 The use site will not abut a lot which is in a "Residential" zone. 3.03 The use will not create undue traffic hazards or traffic congestion by reason of the turn- ing movements which vehicles would make in entering or leav- ing the site. 3.04 No driveway, at the point it crosses the property line of the site, will be within 40 feet of an intersection. An "intersection" as used in this paragraph means the Point of intersection of the ex- tended curb lines of the curbs on the near side of the site, and measurement shall be along such extended curb lines. 3.08 The station or garage will not display any banners, noisy ribbons, or similar attention -dis- tracting or visibility -obscuring de- vices in the area in front of budd- ing set -back linea. 3.06 The minimum frontage on any street will be 120 feet and the minimum area of the site will be 12,000 square feet for a station with four pumps or less; and sta- tions with more pumps will have sufficient additional frontage and area to provide equivalent and sufficient space for servicing ve- hicles, for off-street parking, for safe vehicular approaches into the station, and for good visibility for pedestrians and drivers. 3.07 No driveway will be flared outward on the boulevard in such a way as to encroach upon the boulevard of adjacent proper- ty. 3.08. The station or garage will comply with the off-street parking, sign, construction, and other regulations of the village. 3.09 Any required buffer or screening area will be so con- structed as to obstruct headlight beams of automobiles on the sta- tion property from beaming onto adjacent residential property. 3.10 Pump islands will not be so close to street or adjacent pro- perty lines as to create the like- lihood of encroachment by vehi- cles upon street right-of-way, sidewalk areas, or adjacent prop- erty. 3.11 Only one permanent de - tacked ground display sign, pe- destal type, may be erected on the street frontage at or near the property line adjacent to the street, except that if the front- age on the street is in excess of 150 feet. two such signs may be allowed by the council on such frontage, subject to any other ap- plicable sign regulations. 3.12 All exterior lighting will be so designed, placed and oper- ated as not to be a nuisance to adjacent properties. 3.13 Jf the station or garage is to be located in a shopping center or other integrated devel- opment. it will be in architectural harmony with the rest of the center or development. 3.14 The station or garage will not provide for the out door op- eration of lubrication equipment, hydraulic lifts or service pits, or the outdoor display of merchan- dise: but the outside underground storage of gasoline and other pe- troleum products, the display of petroleum products between pumps, or the temporary display of merchandise within 4 feet of the station building, is permitted. 5.18 The station or garage property shall not be used as a place of storage for or depository of wrecked, abandoned or junked automobiles, or for the sale or display for sale of used cars. 3.16 If the station or garage is not to be located on a County road or State highway, it will not be operated between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day. 3:17 If the site is at an inter- section, provision will be made for an unobstructed area on the site, adjacent to and within 50 feet of the intersection, free of vehicles, signs (other than a pe- destal sign), displays, or other materials which tend to obstruct intersection visibility. 3.18 The foregoing standards shall be deemed to be conditions to the granting of any license by the Village Council for a gasoline and oil service station, along with any other conditions which may be imposed, and any violation of such conditions is prohibited. 3:19 The Village Council may vary or modify the foregoing standards. Section 4.—Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication. Passed by the Village Council the 20th day of November, 1962. Thos. J. Keefe, Mayor Attest: 14. T. Johnson, Clerk (12-6, '62)