[StBernard] zoning

[Westley Annis]

I have not been able to read for myself the minutes of the council meeting
that dealt with the Meraux tract rezoning, having only read what the T-P
reported.

 It appears that the council approved something, either a zoning change from
commercial to heavy industrial, or a conditional use to heavy industrial,
contingent upon the planning commission issuing a letter of no objection.
However, an authoritive source who was there would have to answer as to what
official action they did. 

You asked what is allowed in heavy industrial. This is off the internet
website for municipal codes and is what St. Bernard permits in a heavy
industrial zone. If you want to see what's in a commercial zone, I can post
that from the same site. Oil wells are listed in paragraph c (64).

The process I am used to dealing with in my years on the commission is that
an applicant applies for a zoning change, the public notices are given, the
planning commission holds a public hearing at one of its meetings, the
applicant appears and states their request, those in favor and opposed
address the commission, the applicant has a rebuttal, the commission asks
questions, the planners in the Office of Community Development give the
planning commission their recommendation, and at the next meeting the
planning commissioners vote to approve or deny. An applicant that is denied,
then has the right to appeal to the council which then votes to approve or
deny.  

A councilman or the parish president would be the person to explain why a
different process was done. 

 Deborah Keller

FROM MUNICODE WEBSITE FOR ST. BERNARD PARISH

"USES PERMITTED IN I-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS 

In order to provide for certain uses which, because of their unique

characteristics, cannot be properly classified in a particular zoning

district, the police jury, under the provisions of section 22-9 shall

authorize the following conditional uses:

I-2 HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Principal Permitted Uses: 

(a)   General industry, warehousing and storage uses, including certain

open or enclosed storage of products, materials and vehicles.

(b)   Those uses and similar other uses contained in the list below,

including wholesale establishments, service industries and industries

that manufacture, process, store and distribute material refined

elsewhere.

(c)   Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment,

unless otherwise stipulated, of the products or similar products

contained in the list below.

All permitted uses or activities are subject to the performance

standards of section 22-9-10.

(1)   Any use permitted in the I-1 District, except residential use.

(2)   Aircraft and aircraft parts.

(3)   Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication and forming.

(4)   Animal import-export quarantine station.

(5)   Automobile manufacture.

(6)   Blacksmith shops, including gas and steam fitting shops.

(7)   Boat manufacture and repair.

(8)   Bolts, nuts, screws, washers and rivets.

(9)   Button manufacture.

(10)   Carbon paper and inked ribbons manufacture.

(11)   Chewing gum.

(12)   Chocolate, cocoa and cocoa products.

(13)   Coffee, tea and spices, processing and packaging.

(14)   Coal and coke storage and sales.

(15)   Container (metal).

(16)   Cooperage works (except cooperage stock mill).

(17)   Cosmetics and toiletries.

(18)   Creamery and dairy operations.

(19)   Foundry products manufacture (electrical only).

(20)   Furniture (wood, reed, rattan, etc.).

(21)   Gelatin products.

(22)   Glucose and dextrin.

(23)   Hat bodies of fur and wool felt (including men's hats).

(24)   Laboratories, research, experimental, including combustion

engine testing.

(25)   Machinery manufacture, machine shops.

(26)   Nails, brads, tacks, spikes and staples.

(27)   Needles and pins.

(28)   Pencils.

(29)   Planing and millwork.

(30)   Plumbing supplies.

(31)   Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including papier machine

products).

(32)   Poultry packing except slaughtering (wholesale).

(33)   Rubber and synthetic-treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and

synthetic processing).

(34)   Safes and vaults.

(35)   Soap, washing or cleaning, powder or soda (compounding only).

(36)   Stove and range.

(37)   Tool, dye, gauge and machine shops.

(38)   Tools and hardware products.

(39)   Trailers, carriage and wagon.

(40)   Veneer.

(41)   Vitreous-enameled products.

(42)   Wood products.

(43)   Yarn, threads and cordage.

Permitted Accessory Uses: 

Any accessory use permitted in the I-1 Light Industrial District.

Permitted Conditional Uses: 

(1)   Same as I-1, except no new residential uses.

(2)   Acetylene, generation and storage.

(3)   Acids and derivatives.

(4)   Alcohol, industrial.

(5)   Aluminum, powder and paint manufacture.

(6)   Ammonia.

(7)   Aniline dyes.

(8)   Asphalt or asphalt products.

(9)   Atomic pile or nuclear reactor.

(10)   Automobile wrecking yard.

(11)   Blast furnace, cupolas.

(12)   Bleaching products.

(13)   Bloom mill.

(14)   Boiler manufacture (other than welded).

(15)   Brick, firebrick refractories and clay products (coal fired).

(16)   Carbide.

(17)   Casein.

(18)   Caustic soda.

(19)   Cellulose and cellulose storage.

(20)   Cement lime, gypsum or plaster of paris.

(21)   Charcoal and pulverizing.

(22)   Charcoal, lampblack or fuel briquettes.

(23)   Chlorine.

(24)   Cider and vinegar.

(25)   Cleaning and polishing preparations, dressings and blackings.

(26)   Coke oven products (including fuel gas) and coke oven products

storage.

(27)   Cotton ginning.

(28)   Cotton wadding and linter.

(29)   Cottonseed oil, refining.

(30)   Creosote.

(31)   Distillation, manufacture or refining of coal, tar, asphalt,

wood and bones.

(32)   Distillery (alcoholic), breweries and alcoholic spirits

(nonindustrial).

(33)   Dyestuff.

(34)   Excelsior.

(35)   Explosives, including ammunition and fireworks, and explosive

storage.

(36)   Fat rendering.

(37)   Film, photographic.

(38)   Fertilizer, organic or nonorganic.

(39)   Fish curing or smoking.

(40)   Fish oils and meal.

(41)   Flour, feed and grain milling.

(42)   Forge plant, pneumatic drop and forge hammering.

(43)   Foundries.

(44)   Glue, gelatin (animal) or glue and size (vegetable).

(45)   Graphite or graphic products.

(46)   Hair, felt or feathers, washing, curing and dyeing.

(47)   Hair, hides and raw fur, curing, tanning, dressing, dyeing and

storage.

(48)   Hazardous waste facilities.

(49)   Hydrogen and oxygen.

(50)   Incinerator, industrial or public.

(51)   Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants or related industrial or

household chemical compounds.

(52)   Junk yards, open or enclosed storage of junk.

(53)   Jute, hemp and sisal products.

(54)   Lampblack, carbonblack and boneblack.

(55)   Lead oxide.

(56)   Leather tanning and curing.

(57)   Linoleum and other hard-surface floor coverings (except wood).

(58)   Linoleum or oil cloth.

(59)   Match manufacture.

(60)   Meat or fish products, including slaughtering of meat or

preparation of fish for packing.

(61)   Metal and metal ores, reduction, refining, smelting and

alloying.

(62)   Minerals and earths, quarrying, extracting, grinding, crushing

and processing.

(63)   Molasses.

(64)   Nitrate (manufactured and natural) of an explosive nature and

storage.

(65)   Nitrating of cotton or other material.

(66)   Nylon.

(67)   Oil or gas wells.

(68)   Oilcloth, oil-treated products and artificial leather.

(69)   Ore dumps and elevators.

(70)   Petroleum, gasoline and lubricating oil, refining and wholesale

storage.

(71)   Pharmaceutical products, drugs and manufacturing.

(72)   Pickles, vegetable relish and sauces.

(73)   Plastic material and synthetic resins.

(74)   Potash.

(75)   Pyroxylin.

(76)   Radioactive waste handling.

(77)   Rayon.

(78)   Rayon yarns.

(78.5)   Riverboat gaming establishments.

(79)   Rendering and storage of dead animals, offal, garbage and waste

products.

(80)   Rubber (natural or synthetic, including tires, tubes or similar

products), guttapercha, chicle and balata processing.

(81)   Sauerkraut.

(82)   Scrap metal reduction.

(83)   Shell grinding.

(84)   Shod.

(85)   Slaughtering of animals.

(86)   Soaps or detergents, including fat rendering.

(87)   Solvent extraction.

(88)   Starch manufacture.

(89)   Steel work and rolling mills (ferrous).

(90)   Stockyard.

(91)   Storage battery (wet cell).

(92)   Sugar refining.

(93)   Testing of jet engines or rockets.

(94)   Textile bleaching.

(95)   Turpentine and resin.

(96)   Waste facilities.

(97)   Wool pulling or scouring.

(98)   Wood preserving treatment by creosote.

(99)   Wood pulp or fiber, reduction or processing, including paper

mill operation.

(100)   Yeast.

(101)   Any manufacturing, industrial or storage use not in conflict

with any ordinance of St. Bernard Parish regulating nuisances and not

similar to the I-2 permitted uses and not specifically listed as

permitted heavy industrial uses or a permitted conditional use shall be

considered as an I-2 conditional use."