1. Entrances to the site should be minimized and placed in such a way as to maximize safety, maximize efficient traffic circulation, and minimize the impact on any surrounding residential neighborhoods.
2. The definition of a car wash does not include a one-bay washing facility in a service station where washing facilities are purely incidental to the operation.
3. A car wash shall provide a minimum of five stacking spaces per washing bay.
4. Paved off-street stacking spaces shall be arranged in an orderly fashion so as not to cause blockage of any means of ingress or egress and to ensure that the traffic flow on a public ROW is not endangered in any way. A separate means of ingress shall be established and clearly marked, as shall be a separate means of egress from the car wash. It shall be the responsibility of the owner to avoid any congestion in the public ROW by directing traffic away from the facility by posting a "Temporarily Closed" sign or other means of notification. Traffic studies and associated improvements may be required by the municipality as a condition of approval.
5. The car wash shall have direct access to an arterial or collector road or shall have a point of ingress/egress from a public or private street within the lot of a shopping center. The road shall have sufficient capacity to handle traffic generated by the facility.
6. Objectionable noise, vibration, smoke, dust, electrical disturbance, odors, heat, or glare shall not be produced.
7. All equipment related to the operation of the car wash shall be properly screened to minimize nuisances to adjoining lots.
8. A car wash that adjoins an existing residential lot shall provide a buffer yard. The buffer yard shall be planted within a combination of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, or ground covers. Grass, sod, or turf shall not be considered an acceptable plant for use within landscaped buffer yards.
9. An automatic car wash shall also meet the standards of a drive-through service facility.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)