(a) Minimum Yard Requirements. Business and industrial buildings or uses shall not be located or conducted closer to any lot line of an “R” District than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in division (b) hereof:
Minimum Yard Abutting Any “R” District (ft.) | ||
Side Yard | Rear Yard | Use |
25 | 40 | Access drives for nonresidential uses |
50 | 60 | Churches, schools and public or semipublic buildings |
60 | 80 | Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, all commercial uses and billboards |
80 | 100 | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment, all industrial uses, except those listed below |
500
| 500
| Auto and metal salvage operations
|
(b) Landscaping or Screening. For nonresidential uses abutting “S” and “R” Districts, the minimum yards may be reduced to fifty percent of the requirements stated in division (a) hereof if acceptable landscaping or screening, approved by the Zoning Inspector is provided. Such screening shall be a masonry or solid fence between four and eight feet in height, maintained in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height.
(Ord. 1466. Passed 4-11-94; Am. Ord. 1905. Passed 12-13-11.)