Screening or buffering in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be provided in the side and rear yard for any non-residential building or use which abuts any residential district. Such screening shall be a masonry wall or solid fence between four and seven feet in height maintained in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height at the time of planting. Neither type of screening shall obscure traffic visibility as required by Section 1292.05. The screening requirement may be waived if both the applicant and the adjacent property owner or owners agree in writing and the signed waiver is provided to the Zoning Inspector for his/her file.
(Ord. 639-95. Passed 8-10-95; Ord. 1010-11. Passed 4-11-11.)