1. Application. An applicant for a conditional use permit for the manufacture or storage of explosives shall submit an application containing such information as is required elsewhere in this zoning code and such additional information and affidavits as are requested by the planning commission, city council, or other authorized agent. In addition to such information, the application shall also contain an affidavit in writing indicating that the applicant will fully and faithfully abide by and comply with the requirements set forth in this section.

2. Processing of Application – Fire Chief. The director of community development shall immediately notify the fire chief of any application or petition for a variance or conditional use permit to manufacture or to keep or store explosives. The fire chief shall furnish to the planning commission, city council, or other authorized agent a written report thereon, stating whether or not, in the fire chief’s judgment, explosives in the amounts and kinds mentioned in the application could be manufactured or stored at the place proposed without danger of serious injury to persons other than those employed in or about the plant or magazine, or to property other than that of the applicant.

1. Conditional Use Permit Required. No quantity of explosives in excess of 100 pounds shall be manufactured, stored or kept in any place, residence, or building without a conditional use permit therefor issued by the planning commission or city council, and then only if said explosives are manufactured or stored in a building or magazine situated, constructed, operated, and maintained in the manner prescribed in the city health and safety code.

2. Prohibitions. No building used in whole or in part for the habitation of human beings, or no place of religious assembly, schoolhouse, or building used as a place of public assembly shall be used for the manufacture or storage of explosives.

3. Distance. No structure used for the manufacture or storage of explosives shall be located within a distance of one-half mile of any highway used for travel by the public, except as otherwise provided herein.

4. Limitations. The storage of not more than 100,000 pounds of explosives in a magazine situated, constructed, operated, and maintained as prescribed in the city health and safety code may be located at a place not less than one-quarter mile distant from any building used in whole or in part for the habitation of human beings, or from any place of religious assembly, schoolhouse, or other public building, or buildings used as a place of public assembly, or from any highway used for travel by the public, if the explosives, within two miles of such buildings or highways, are stored in a magazine surrounded by natural or artificial barriers formed by hills or earth embankments of sufficient height and thickness to prevent serious injury to any building or to any person in or about the buildings or traveling upon any such highway, and provided the hills or earth embankments could deflect the force of all or part of the total amount of explosives stored in the magazine. (Ord. 690 § 4 (Exh. A), 2018).