(A) Obstruction of views. On any corner lot, no wall, fence, structure, or vegetation shall be erected, or maintained, at a height that will obstruct motorists’ sightlines along intersecting streets or roadways.
(B) Fencing or screening requirements for business or industrial uses.
(1) Where any business, or industrial, use is adjacent to property zoned R-1 or R-2, that business, or industry, shall provide screening of its exterior activities along the property line abutting the residential property. This screening requirement will not apply in those cases where the business, or industrial, site is located across the street from a residential site, but will apply if separated by only an alley. The screening requirement will not apply if the view of the business from the residential property consists solely of the building itself.
(2) If the screening used consists of a solid fence, or wall, the material shall block, or obscure, a minimum of 50% of the view of the business, or industrial, site from the residential site. If fences, or walls, are used, they shall be no less than five feet, or more than eight feet in height, unless otherwise directed by the Planning and Zoning Commission, or the Council.
(3) Fences, or walls, shall extend no closer than 15 feet to any street or driveway opening onto a street, unless regulated elsewhere.
(4) Fences, or walls, when used as the screening material, shall be placed along the property lines, or when located along a street, be setback at least 15 feet from the street right-of-way, unless regulated elsewhere, with landscaping of property between the fence, or wall, and the street pavement.
(5) If berms are used as the screening material, they shall be constructed with a slope not to exceed 3:1, and shall be covered with sod, or other landscape material, sufficient to prevent erosion of the berm.
(6) If trees, hedges, or other vegetative materials are used, the vegetation must provide a minimum view coverage of 50% throughout the year of the business, or industrial, site from the residential site.
(C) Height and setback regulations for fencing and/or vegetative screening for residential uses.
(1) Fences and vegetative screening in the residential district can be located anywhere in the front yard setback area, as long as they do not interfere with street intersection sightlines, and are limited to a maximum of four feet in height.
(2) Fences, or vegetative screening (hedges, for example), located in the side yard, or rear yard, area may be a maximum of six feet in height, as long as they do not interfere with street intersection sightlines, and are setback at least two feet from the property lines. Fences, or vegetative screening materials, may be constructed, or planted, on the property lines, but only with the permission of the adjacent property owner.
(D) Maintenance requirements.
(1) The yard area in front of fences and walls shall be trimmed, and maintained, in a neat, and attractive, manner.
(2) Fences and walls must be maintained, and kept, in a sightly manner. Repairs to damaged areas of walls or fences shall be made within 30 days of sustaining the damage.
(3) Areas left in a natural state and vegetative screening areas shall be properly maintained in a sightly, and well kept, condition.
(4) Diseased, dying, or dead vegetative screening elements shall be removed and then replaced, at a minimum, with healthy plants of the same size required when first planted.
(5) If requested by an adjacent property owner, or upon notification by a representative of the city, a property owner must trim any part of a tree, bush, or shrub that hangs over, or encroaches, beyond the property owner’s property line, or interferes with traffic, or pedestrian, sightlines.
(E) Landscaping regulations.
(1) Landscaping of yards fronting a state or county road is required.
(2) When a development site plan is submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Council for review and comment, it must contain information regarding the type of landscaping treatment the developer intends for the front yard, and, if required, side yards.
(3) The plan shall include the location of all intended fences, tie walls, retaining walls, berms, landscaped islands, and planting beds with the plant materials identified.
(4) The plan shall include the location, and appropriate detail, of all required screening showing the relationship of the screening to the development site and adjacent property.
(5) The plan shall show the details of sodding and seeding, including the delineation of area and square footage.
(6) Trees shall be planted with sufficient setbacks so that the diameter of its expected mature foliage will not extend beyond the owner’s property line.
(Prior Code, § 11.70)