(A) Screening. All principal and accessory uses, except business signs, which are situated within 50 feet of a residential district, shall be screened from the district by a wall or fence of not less than 90% opacity, and not less than five nor more than seven feet in height above the level of the residential district property at the district boundary. Walls or fences of lesser heights or planting screens may be permitted by the City Council, if there is a finding that the nature or extent of the use being screened is such that a lesser degree of screening will as adequately promote and protect the use and enjoyment of the properties within the adjacent residential district, or there is a finding that a screening of the type required by this chapter would interfere with the provisions of adequate amounts of light and air to some properties. Loading docks in the Business or Industrial District shall be screened so as not to be visible from any public street right-of-way within a Residential District. All required screening devices shall be designed so that they are architecturally harmonious with the principal structures on the site, and they shall be properly maintained so as not to become unsightly, hazardous, or less opaque than when originally constructed.
(B) Landscaping. All exposed ground areas surrounding or within a principal or accessory use, including street boulevards, which are not devoted to drives, sidewalks, patios, or other such uses, shall be landscaped with grass, shrubs, trees, or other ornamental landscaped materials. All landscaped areas shall be kept neat, clean and uncluttered. No landscaped area shall be used for the parking of vehicles or the storage or display of materials, supplies or merchandise.
(C) Lighting. All sources of artificial light situated in a Business or Industrial District site shall be so fixed, directed, designed or sized that the sum total of their illumination will not increase the level of illumination on any nearby residential property by more than 0.1 foot-candle in or within 25 feet of a dwelling, nor more than 0.5 foot-candles on any other part of the property. Glare, whether direct or reflected, as differentiated from general illumination, shall not be visible from beyond the limits of the immediate site from which it originates.
(D) Storage; displays. All materials, supplies, merchandise or other similar matter not on display for a direct sale, rental or lease to the ultimate consumer or user shall be stored within a completely enclosed building within the Business or Industrial District, or within the confines of a 100% opaque wall or fence not less than five feet high. Merchandise which is offered for sale as described above may be displayed beyond the confines of a building in the Business Industrial District, but the area occupied by the outdoor display shall not constitute a greater number of square feet than 10% of the ground floor area of the building housing the principal use, unless the merchandise is of a type customarily displayed outdoors, such as garden supplies. No storage of any type shall be permitted within the one-half of the required front or side street setback nearest the street.
(Ord. 221, passed 11-6-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99