In those instances where the following conditions occur, the need for the wall or berm or similar type of landscaped buffer strip shall be determined by the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required, or the Administrative Official, as appropriate.
(A) For those use districts and uses listed below, there shall be provided and maintained on those sides abutting or adjacent to a residential district an obscuring wall as required below (except as otherwise required).
Use | Requirements |
Use | Requirements |
Auto wash, drive-in restaurants | 6-foot-high wall |
C, CBD, and O Districts and commercial or offices uses in an NOC District | 5-foot-high wall |
Hospital, ambulance and delivery areas | 6-foot-high wall |
M Districts, open storage areas, loading or unloading areas, service areas | 5-foot to 8-foot-high wall or fence, plus buffer |
Off-street parking area (other than P-1 Districts) | 5-foot-high wall |
P-1 vehicular parking district | 5-foot-high wall |
Utility buildings, stations, and or sub-stations | 6-foot-high wall |
(B) Required walls shall be located on the lot line, except where underground utilities interfere and except in instances where this chapter requires conformance with front yard setback lines in abutting residential districts where there is an established wall height and material acceptable to the village, the wall shall be continued on the subject site.
(C) (1) Such walls and screening barrier shall have no openings for vehicular traffic or other purposes, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and, except such openings as may be approved by the Administrative Official. All walls herein required shall be constructed of materials approved by the Administrative Official to be durable, weather-resistant, rust-proof, and easily maintained; and wood or wood products shall be specifically excluded. Materials shall be compatible with surrounding building materials, including, but not limited to, brick or stone.
(2) Masonry walls may be constructed with openings which do not in any square section (height and width) exceed 20% of the surface. Where walls are so pierced, the openings shall be so spaced as to maintain the obscuring character required, and shall not reduce the minimum height requirement. The arrangement of the openings shall be reviewed and approved by the Administrative Official.
(D) The village may approve a three to four-foot high heavily landscaped berm (as determined by the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required) as an alternative to a wall upon finding the landscaped berm will provide a similar screening effect.
(Ord. 259, passed 10-24-1995; Ord. passed 2-1-2012)