(a) Minimum Yard Requirements. Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located or conducted closer to any lot line of an "R" District than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
Minimum Side or Rear Yard Abutting any “R” District (In Feet) | Use |
25 | Off-street parking and loading spaces and access drives for nonresidential uses. |
50 | Churches, schools and public or semipublic buildings. |
60 | Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, trailers and mobile home parks, all commercial uses and billboards. |
100 | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment and all industrial uses, except those listed below. |
500 | Auto and metal salvage operations; mineral extraction or processing. |
(b) Landscaping or Screening Provisions. For nonresidential uses abutting "R" Districts the minimum yards may be reduced to fifty percent of the requirements stated in subsection (a) hereof, if acceptable landscaping or screening, approved by the Zoning Inspector, is provided. Such screening shall be a masonry or solid fence between four and six feet in height maintained in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than ten feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height.