(a) Yard requirements in the GB-1 District are as follows:
(1) Minimum front yard depth See subsection (c) hereof
(2) Minimum rear yard depth See subsection (d) hereof
(3) Minimum side yard width on each side See subsection (d) hereof
(b) Special uses shall comply with all pertinent development standards contained in Chapter 1296.
(c) The minimum front yard depth shall be twenty-five feet if the frontage of the lot is 100 feet or more, or if adjacent land is not built upon, or if buildings on adjacent lots have provided front yards of twenty-five feet or more. If the frontage of the lot is less than 100 feet, and if a building on an adjacent lot, or buildings on adjacent lots, provide front yards less than twenty-five feet in depth, a front yard equal to the average of adjacent front yards shall be provided. The Planning Commission may vary this standard through the site plan and/or special use review process if it can be shown that such a variation will result in a more optimal and safer site design and when it is determined that the health, safety, or general welfare would be best served by such an exemption.
(d) There shall be no minimum side or rear yard width, except when the yard is adjacent to a residential district or use. In such cases, the rear and/or side yard shall not be less than one-fourth of the sum of the height and depth of the structure, but in any event not less than twenty-five feet. In all such cases, a landscaped buffer at least twenty-five feet wide shall be created along the length of the property for screening and buffering purposes. This bufferyard shall contain a sight-proof landscape screening of Group A and C (minimum seventy percent Group C trees) trees and compact evergreen hedge. An opaque fence of adequate height, as adjudged by the Planning Commission, may be substituted or required in place of such hedge plantings (but not the Group A or C trees) if approved or required by the Planning Commission. If a use is to be serviced from the side or rear, a yard shall be provided not less than forty feet deep.
(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19; Ord. 6845. Passed 7-21-20; Ord. 6857. Passed 6-2-20.)