A. Fencing Requirements:
1. Any person who completes any well for production shall enclose said well, together with all surface facilities and storage tanks and any other facilities and appurtenances thereto, by a substantial fence properly built so as to ordinarily keep persons and animals out of the enclosure.
2. All gates thereto shall be kept locked when the permittee or his employees are not within the enclosure.
3. Nothing herein mandates all such facilities be within the same fenced area and the City Manager or his designate shall be authorized to approve any plan which he believes ordinarily protects persons and animals from danger.
4. Said fence must be erected within ten (10) days after the completion of the well.
B. Screening Requirements: Screening shall be required in areas of operation which are in any developed area or within one thousand feet (1,000') of any developed area, park, school, church, public building or place of public assembly. Landscaping shall include screening by a fenced enclosure of at least eight feet (8') in height and constructed of one of the following materials:
1. A solid masonry wall.
2. A chainlink fabric with three and one-half inch (31/2") mesh interwoven with redwood slats or other opaque materials for use with chainlink fabric when such materials are compatible with surrounding uses and effectively screen the oil operation.
3. Any other material, including trees and shrubs, compatible with surrounding uses, which effectively screen the oil operation site.
4. All fencing, masonry walls, redwood slatting, or other comparable materials for use with chainlink fabric, shall be of a solid neutral color, compatible with surrounding uses, and maintained in a neat, orderly, secure condition. Neutral colors shall include sand, grey, and unobtrusive shades of green, blue and brown.
C. Setbacks: Minimum setbacks for all screening shall in no case be less than twenty five feet (25') from the ultimate right-of- way of any public street as defined in the transportation plan of the City.
D. Screening Plan Submittal; Approval:
1. Prior to the issuance of any permit, a screening plan which meets the requirements of this chapter shall be submitted for review and approval by the City Manager or his designate.
2. Within sixty (60) days after completion of drilling or redrilling, or within sixty (60) days after conversion of an abandoned well, any oil operation site in an area as described in subsection A of this section shall be landscaped in conformance with the plan, as approved, and the specification contained in this chapter. (1994 Code § 23.5-23)