(a) A setback of fifty feet shall be provided along the entire perimeter of the development, except where it adjoins a business or industrial district, in which case setback and screening requirements shall be at the discretion of the Planning Commission. Where situated adjacent to a residentially zoned or used area, a landscaped buffer at least thirty feet wide shall be created along the entire 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.
(b) Open storage, service and loading areas shall be screened by walls, fences or other enclosures at least six feet, but not more than eight feet, in height. These screening facilities shall not obscure traffic visibility within fifty feet of an intersection. Said sightproof screening provisions shall appear on the site plan submitted for a building permit and shall be physically constructed when the business is occupied. These screening requirements may be waived if the business is screened effectively by natural topography. The Planning Commission shall determine the effectiveness of the natural topography as screening, by whatever means it deems necessary to make such determination, and grant such relief from this standard, in writing, to the proposed user of the land, if warranted.
(Ord. 6774. Passed 4-2-19.)