(A) Definition. A SALVAGE YARD shall be an area where waste paper, rags, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, bailed, packed, disassembled or handled. A salvage yard shall include auto wrecking yards, dismantling of machinery, house wrecking yards, used lumber yards, and places or yards for the storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment. A salvage yard shall constitute only that portion of a lot where waste materials, papers, rags, or discarded or salvaged materials, automobiles not in running condition, house wrecking materials, dismantled machinery, and equipment are concentrated upon. The presence of such materials on a part of a lot shall not preclude the use of the remaining unused area of the lot for salvage purposes.
(B) Zones in which permitted. A salvage yard may be permitted in the A Agriculture Zone, the IL Limited Industrial Zone and the IIM Intense Industrial Zone subject to the determination of the Board of Zoning Appeals and subject to applicable Indiana statutes.
(C) Conditions. A salvage yard may be permitted under the following conditions:
(1) No salvage yard shall be closer than 50 feet to any highway, road, street, and not less than 300 feet to any dwelling, school, church, or institution for human care;
(2) A salvage yard shall be provided with an adequate road, passable under any weather conditions;
(3) A salvage yard shall be enclosed along all the exterior boundaries by an approved fence of a type prescribed by the City of Austin Plan Commission, and the same shall have only one entrance or exit.
(4) The salvage yard may not be enlarged or extended unless the Plan Commission shall rezone the lot or lots subject to the expansion.
(D) Recycled material collection. The Austin Plan Commission may designate an area for recycled materials collection.
(Ord. 1991-07, passed 1-7-1991)