(A) Minimum yard requirements. Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer to any lot line of an SR or R District than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in division (B) of this section.
Minimum side or rear yard abutting any R District:
25 feet Off-street parking and loading spaces and access drives for nonresidential uses.
50 feet Churches, schools and public or semipublic buildings.
60 feet Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, all business uses.
80 feet Outside sale or storage of automobiles, trucks automobile service stations, recreation vehicles and equipment, building material or construction equipment, bulk material, and all industrial uses.
(B) Landscaping or screening provisions. For nonresidential uses abutting R Districts the minimum yards may be reduced to 50% of the requirements stated in division (A) above if acceptable landscaping or screening approved by the Planning Commission is provided. Such screening shall be a masonry or solid fence between 4 and 6 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 marginal planting not less than 15 feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than 4 feet in height. Parking of automobiles for nonresidential uses may be permitted within 10 feet of the boundaries of R Districts, provided screening is installed as specified herein subject to approval of a plan therefore by the Planning Commission.
(1981 Code, § 150.23) (Ord. 6570-93, passed 12-13-1993)