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Starch, glucose or dextrine manufacture. 



Stock yards. 



Stone or monumental works. 



Sugar refining. 



Sulphurous, sulphuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid manufacture. 



Tallow, grease or lard manufacturing or refining. 



Tar distillation or manufacture. 



Tar roofing or tar waterproofing manufacture. 



(b) In a business district no building or premises shall be used, and no 

 building shall be erected, which is arranged, intended or designed to be used 

 for any trade, industry or use that is noxious or offensive by reason of the 

 emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas or noise ; but car barns or places of amuse- 

 ment shall not be excluded. 



(c) In a business district no building or premises shall be used, and 

 no building shall be erected, which is arranged, intended or designed to be 

 used for any kind of manufacturing, except that any kind of manufacturing 

 not included within the prohibitions of paragraphs a and b of this section 

 may be carried on provided not more than 25 per cent of the total floor 

 space of the building is so used, but space equal to the area of the lot may 

 be so used in any case, although in excess of said 25 per cent. The printing 

 of a newspaper shall not be deemed manufacturing. No use permitted in a 

 residence district by section 3 shall be excluded from a business district. 



§ 5. Unrestricted Districts. The term "unrestricted district ' is used 

 to designate the districts for which no regulations or restrictions are pro- 

 vided by this article. 



§ 6. Existing Buildings and Premises. In any building or premises 

 any lawful use existing therein at the time of the passage of this resolution 

 may be continued therein, although not conforming to the regulations of the 

 use district in which it is maintained, or such use may be changed or con- 

 verted or extended throughout the building, provided, in either case, that 

 no structural alterations, except as required by existing laws and ordinances, 

 are made therein and no new building is erected, and provided further that : 



(1) In a residence district no building or premises unless now devoted 

 to a use that is by section 4 prohibited in a business district, shall be con- 

 verted to such use ; and 



(2) In a residence or business district no building or premises unless 

 now devoted to a use that is by paragraph a or b of section 4 prohibited 

 in a business district shall be converted to such use. 



No existing building designed, arranged, intended or devoted to a use 

 not permitted by this article in the district in which such use is located 

 shall be enlarged, extended, reconstructed or structurally altered unless 

 such use is changed to a use permitted in the district in which such building 

 is located; except that such building may be reconstructed or structurally 

 altered to an extent not greater than 50 per cent of the value of the build- 

 ing, exclusive of foundations, for the purpose of continuing therein, without 

 any extension thereof, a lawful use existing therein at the time of the 

 passage of this resolution, and such use may be continued therein, although 

 not conforming to the regulations of the use district in which it is maintained. 



§ 7. Use District Exceptions. The Board of Appeals, created by chap- 

 ter 503 of the laws of 1916, may, in appropriate cases, after public notice 

 and hearing, and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, determine 

 and vary the application of the use district regulations herein established in 

 harmony with their general purpose and intent as follows : 



