1982-03-03 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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~J • • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting La Porte City Council, March 3, 1982 Page 4 Ford: I didn't say south of 16th, I said on 16th. Simons: You don't know what kind of materials you are going to be handling or what, so you don't know if your buildings are going to be fire proof enough to handle this type of material? Ford: I don't imagine the City of La Porte is going to let you put anything in a warehouse if the warehouse isn't. You pretty well regulate what goes on within these warehouses. The City has the means to control it. T seriously doubt if you are going to let anybody house dynamite, regardless of what kind of building you build. Longley: Mr. Askins, what type of control do we have over hazardous material and the way they are housed? Askins: First, on a warehouse, they're going to have to meet Southern Standard Building Codes so far as wind loading and construction. On materials, our Fire Code would cover that • as to the types of materials housed in certain zones. The City of La Porte Fire Code is based on the National Fire Code. Also, this is just a zoning hearing, and at the time the building permit is taken out and they want to occupy the building, they will have to state the use of the building. The building code on all warehouse construction, the City requires certain size water lines to feed fire hydrants :r properly and handle sprinkler systems. A number of different codes would regulate it. Blackwell: The way I understand our ordinance, hazardous waste material must be within the industrial district. Tf this should be put in an industrial district it would have a "Special Use Permit", which does not permit hazardous waste. So this particular piece of property would not be allowable for hazardous waste. Skelton: Mr. Ford, you did say this would not be used for containerized storage at all, the containers from the ships? Ford: That is correct. Skelton: I just wanted to be sure that we were clear on that since this Council has been accused of opening so many con- tainer yards, which we really didn't do. • Ford: I am on record here, and I state there are no plans for container storage and we are primarily working to get the spurs in and warehousing.