(a) Any use located in the I-1, I-2, or I-3 district shall be screened from any adjacent zoning lot in a residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort district, by a solid wall 6 feet in height erected and maintained along side and rear property lines. The walls shall not project beyond the rear line of an adjacent front yard in the residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort district. In addition, a 5-foot-wide landscaping strip shall be provided along the outside of the solid wall.
(b) Any use located in the IMX-1 district shall be screened from any adjacent zoning lot in a residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort district, by a landscaped area not less than 5 feet in width along side and rear property lines. The landscaped area shall contain a screening hedge not less than 42 inches in height. The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to necessary drives and walkways, nor to any meeting facility, day-care facility, group living facility, or other use governed by subsection (d).
(c) Any use located in the B-1, B-2, or BMX-4 district, and any use located in the BMX-3 district except detached dwellings and multi-family dwellings, shall be screened from any adjacent zoning lot in a residential, apartment, or apartment mixed-use district, by a landscaped area not less than 5 feet in width along side and rear property lines. Such landscaped area shall contain a screening hedge not less than 42 inches in height. The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to necessary drives and walkways, nor to any meeting facility, day-care facility, group living facility, or other use governed by subsection (d).
(d) Any meeting facility, day-care facility, group living facility, parking facility, commercial, industrial, or similar use, located in any district other than those already addressed under subsections (a), (b), and (c), shall be screened from any adjacent zoning lot in a country, residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort district by:
(1) A solid wall or fence, excepting chain link, 6 feet in height; or
(2) An equivalent landscape buffer such as a 6-foot-high screening hedge.
The solid wall or fence, or equivalent landscape buffer, shall be erected and maintained along the common property line. The director may modify the requirements of this subsection if warranted by topography.
(e) This section shall not preclude a public utility from constructing a wall or fence exceeding 6 feet in height pursuant to § 21-4.30(c)(2).
(1990 Code, Ch. 21, Art. 4, § 21-4.70-1) (Added by Ord. 99-12; Am. Ord. 03-37)