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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)