§ 154.130 CEMETERIES.

   Cemeteries are a permitted use in the RCC District. They may be permitted in the A/R Agricultural/Residential Districts subject to the following special land use approval requirements.

   (A)   The location of a cemetery shall be permitted in the quarter section within an A/R District when the quarter section does not have more than 51% of its land area in recorded plats.

   (B)   All access shall be provided from a public road having a planned right-of-way of not less than 120 feet.

   (C)   All sides of the cemetery shall be screened from any residential view by providing a continuous and completely obscuring wall, fence or buffer strip planting as described in §§ 154.018 and 154.019.

   (D)   Approval shall be given contingent on a satisfactory site plan review.

   (E)   Any crypt, mausoleum or other buildings or structures wholly or in part above the ground, other than monuments, shall together occupy not more than 25% of the lot area.

   (F)   No part of any crypt, mausoleum or other building containing bodies or remains, other than a subterranean grave shall be less than 100 feet from the nearest lot line.

   (G)   The proposed cemetery complies with all provisions in acts relating to cemeteries enacted by the people of the state.

(Ord. passed 6-28-2006)