Outdoor storage of goods, equipment and material, including, but not limited to junk vehicles, junk appliances, trash collection areas or dumpsters, open air docks, outdoor storage of bulk materials and/or parts, or areas regularly used for outdoor repair areas or service stations, motor vehicle dealers, or inspection stations, but excluding temporary construction and related activities and closed bay docks, and other such items as trash, and other debris shall be regulated by this chapter. In the interest of safety to children and adjacent property owners, any approved outdoor storage shall maintain a buffer that conceals the stored materials from public view. The buffer shall be compact evergreen hedge or other type of evergreen foliage screening which shall reach the height of at least 8 feet at maturity, or shall be a combined fence and shrubbery screen. The buffer shall be maintained at a minimum of 8 feet in height and to be determined wide enough to adequately screen the use. Earth-berms, other topographical features and existing wooded areas may be accepted in lieu of the above requirements, if they conceal the use from public view. Fences shall be at least 8 feet, but no greater than 12 feet, must be opaque, and made of materials that are normally accepted in the fencing industry. Nothing in this section will preclude the county from enforcement against junk and abandoned vehicles as prescribed in the Vance County Abandoned Vehicle Ordinance, Chapter 94 of this Code. All nonconforming outdoor storage existing on the effective date of this chapter, which does not conform to the requirements of this subchapter, shall be removed and/or brought into compliance within 12 months from the effective date of this chapter.
(Ord. 39, passed 10-3-2011)