Transportation use unit classifications.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 59-8400
in effect§ 59-8400. - Transportation use unit classifications.
Transportation use types include facilities for the movement of people or goods by either public or private organizations.
8400.1. Railroad Facilities: Refuse, Biomedical Waste and Hazardous Waste. Railroad facilities, which process, repackage, load, unload and/or transfer refuse, biomedical waste and/or hazardous waste. The cleaning up of an emergency spill is not to be considered loading or unloading of material. Any waste material containing substances defined as hazardous by any chapter of the Oklahoma City Municipal Code, 2020, as amended, or any material defined as hazardous by the United States Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Health Department or the State Water Resources Board shall be included in this use unit. Hazardous waste shall include incinerator ash. Storage is permitted in enclosed buildings or outdoors as long as appropriate state, federal and municipal health and safety standards are met. Typical uses include railroad yards and their distribution warehouses, and incidental uses dealing in on-site processing, repackaging, loading, unloading and/or transferring of refuse, biomedical waste materials or hazardous waste materials. Sanitary Landfills (8350.12) and Hazardous Waste Disposal (8350.5) sites are not allowed under this use unit.
8400.2. Transportation Facilities: Aircraft. Permanent and temporary facilities which provide access to airborne transport for people and goods. Typical uses include airport, landing strip, heliport and helicopter landing pad.
8400.3. Transportation Facilities: Surface Passenger. Surface facilities which contribute to the movement of people on a local or cross-country basis. Typical uses include inter-city bus or railroad passenger terminals and local mass transportation passenger stations.
8400.4. Transportation Facilities: Surface, Restricted. Facilities which contribute to the surface movement of inter-city freight, including processing, loading, and transferring. All freight goods are stored within enclosed buildings and outside activity is restricted to the loading of these goods. Typical uses include cross country truck lines and their distribution warehouses, with supplementary parking of tractors and trailers.
8400.5. Transportation Facilities: Surface Goods, General. Facilities which contribute to the surface movement of inter-city freight and heavy equipment, including processing, loading and transferring. Freight goods and materials may be stored outside. Typical use is a railroad classification or marshalling yard with supplementary containerized or raw material loading facilities and storage of rolling stock. The processing, repackaging, loading, unloading and/or transferring of refuse, biomedical waste materials or hazardous waste materials at railroad facilities shall not be classified under this use unit but shall be classified as Railroad Facilities: Refuse, Biomedical Waste and Hazardous Waste (8400.1).
Source: City of Oklahoma City, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/oklahoma_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=OKMUCO2020_CH59ZOPLCO_ARTVIIIUSUNCL_S59-8400TRUSUNCLFetched: 10/28/2026