(a) Development Plan for New Uses. Industrial uses constructed on land vacant on the effective date of the Planning and Zoning Code must submit a Development Plan. The Planning and Zoning Board shall review such Plan prior to issuance of a zoning permit and may impose additional requirements as may be reasonable and appropriate.
(b) Minimum Lot Area. No minimum lot size is required; however all principal and subordinate uses and structures, including parking and paved areas, shall be located not less than 100 feet from any district where residences are a permitted use, and not less than fifty (50) feet from any other zoning district.
(c) Minimum Lot Width. No minimum lot width is required; however, all lots shall abut a publicly dedicated and improved street and shall have adequate width to provide for yard spaces and parking areas.
(d) Side Yards. When abutting a residential zoning district, 100 feet for structures and fifty (50) feet for paved areas
When abutting a non-residential zoning district, fifty (50) feet for structures and paved areas.
(e) Front Yard Depth. Any structure or parking area must be located not less than fifty (50) feet from the right-of-way of the street or highway on which the use has frontage.
(f) Minimum Rear Yard Depth. Minimum rear yard depth shall be at least thirty (30) feet when abutting a residential district in which case the required rear yard depth shall be fifty (50) feet.
(g) Height. No structure shall exceed a height of fifty (50) feet.
(h) Trash and Garbage Control. All trash and garbage shall be stored in container systems which are located and enclosed so as to effectively screen them from view.
(i) Landscaping. If side or rear yards of any new industrial use, or any expansion of existing industrial use, are located adjacent to any district where single-family residences are a permitted use, landscaping and screening of those yards is required.
Such screening shall consist of walls, landscaped earthen mounds and/or areas of natural vegetation. Such screened areas shall be at least seven (7) feet in height. The use of year-round vegetation, such as evergreens, is encouraged. Landscaped areas shall have at least seventy-five percent (75%) opacity during full foliage.
(Ord. 2004-111. Passed 7-26-04.)