(a) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to sections:
14-83: Industrial-2.
(b) Solar and Wind Energy Generation Facilities shall require a Special Use Permit in this district.
(c) Solar energy generation facilities.
(1) Solar mounting devices shall be set back at least 150 feet from all property lines.
(2) Solar mounting devices shall be limited to no more than 12 feet in height.
(3) Ground-mounted equipment and accessory structures shall be set back at least 150 feet from all property lines.
(4) Site shall be enclosed by a six foot fence topped with barbwire.
(5) Site will be enclosed by a landscape buffer consisting of ten large evergreen trees and ten evergreen shrubs every 100 linear feet. Existing vegetation may be used if equal or more intense.
a. Evergreen trees shall be at least four feet high at planting. Adjacent to all residential dwellings, trees shall be planted at a minimum of six feet tall at grade or a minimum of four feet tall on top of a minimum two foot tall berm.
b. Additional landscaping may be required depending on the intensity of adjacent residential uses.
(6) Site will be decommissioned within 180 days of a determination by the Zoning Administrator that the facility is no longer being operated, maintained, or used in an operable state of repair.
(d) Wind energy generation facilities.
(1) The wind energy system shall have a system height of no greater than 120 feet in height.
(2) Systems shall be set back the height of the system (to include the tip of the wind generator blade when at its highest point) plus ten percent from all internal property and right-of-way lines; guy wires shall meet the minimum setback distances for the district.
(3) Ground-mounted equipment and accessory structures shall be set back at least 20 feet from all property lines.
(Amend. of 9-6-2011; Amend. of 9-1-2015)