The supplemental use regulations of this section apply to all junk or salvage yards.
A. Junk or salvage yards must be screened from view of abutting streets and all AG, R, C and IL Zoning Districts by the erection and maintenance of a screening wall or fence that is:
1. At least eight feet (8') in height;
2. Made of wood, metal, or masonry construction;
3. Designed and arranged to provide opaque visual screening;
4. Uniform in height, except in response to significant changes in topography;
5. Constructed with all braces and supports on the interior of the fence or wall; and
6. Erected before occupancy of the building or initiation of the junk or salvage yard use.
B. Required screening walls and fences must be maintained by the owner of the lot containing the use requiring the screening.
C. The piling of junk or salvage materials may not exceed the height of the required screening wall or fence within one hundred fifty feet (150') of the boundary required to be screened, except that storage racks designed for the stacking of automotive front- ends, hoods, doors, quarter panels, and similar parts that exceed the height of the screening wall or fence, must be set back at least twenty five feet (25') from abutting R-Zoned lot and street rights-of-way, plus two (2) additional feet of setback for every foot of rack height above fifteen feet (15').
D. The Board of Adjustment is authorized as a special exception to:
1. Modify or eliminate the screening wall or fence requirements where existing physical features, such as trees and other plant materials, buildings, earthen berms or hills, provide equivalent visual screening;
2. Modify the screening wall or fence requirements when alternative screening will provide equivalent visual screening, such as:
a. Dense landscaping, or
b. A six foot (6') privacy wall or fence;
3. Grant an extension of time to erect a screening wall or fence when properties, other than streets, are undeveloped and no immediate plans for development are known or anticipated; or
4. Eliminate the screening wall or fence requirements when the purpose of the screening requirement cannot be achieved, such as when a street is elevated, or when the required screening wall or fence is prohibited by other regulations, such as in floodplains. (Ord. 2018-16, 12-4-2018)