(A) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful after the effective date of this chapter for any person, firm, or corporation, or other legal entity to operate or maintain in any unincorporated area of Greene County a junkyard or automobile graveyard within 100 feet of the centerline of any public road within 200 feet of any dwelling owned by another person, firm, or corporation, within one quarter mile of any school, rural volunteer fire department, church,
or within any residential area. For the purposes of this chapter, a junkyard or automobile graveyard shall be within a residential area if any portion of the junkyard or automobile graveyard shall be within or contiguous to the boundary of an area where 25 or more housing units within a geographical area comprised of a one-fourth mile wide strip contiguous with and parallel to the external boundary lines of the tract of real property of which the automobile graveyard or junkyard is located.
(B) It shall be unlawful after the effective date of this chapter for any person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity to begin to operate, maintain, or establish or to operate, maintain, or establish in any unincorporated area of Greene County, a junkyard or automobile graveyard, the site plan of which has not been approved by the Greene County Planning Board as provided in § 114.07.
(C) Junkyards and automobile graveyards shall be fenced completely. The type of fence shall be stated on the site plan and must be specifically approved with the site plan. Wire fences shall not be allowed. The Planning Board may consider the aesthetic aspects of the fence in determining whether to approve the site plan. The height of any plants used must be at least 12 inches at the time of planting.
(D) Each owner, operator, or maintainer of a junkyard or automobile graveyard to which this chapter applies, and who chooses to use vegetation shall utilize good husbandry techniques with respect to the vegetation, including, but not limited to, proper pruning, proper fertilizer, and proper mulching, so that the vegetation will reach maturity as soon as practical and will have maximum density in foliage. Dead or diseased vegetation shall be removed and must be replanted at the next appropriate planting time; and the opaque fence shall be maintained in good condition.
(Ord. passed 4-2-07) Penalty, see § 114.99