(a) In all industrial districts the required front yard setback shall not be used for off-street parking, loading or unloading, and shall remain as open space unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except for landscaping plant materials or vehicles access drives. All yards abutting upon a public street shall be considered as front yards for setback purposes. In all commercial districts the same requirements shall apply except that only the first fifteen feet of required front yard setback may not be used for parking and loading purposes.
(b) Side and rear yard requirements for all B-1, B-2, B-3, M-1 and M-2 Districts, shall be ten feet. Business and industrial buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer to any lot line of an R District than the distance specified in the following schedule:
Minimum Side or Rear Yard Abutting any "R" District | Use |
10 feet | Access drives for non-residential uses |
25 feet | Churches, schools, and public or semi-public buildings |
60 feet | Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, mobile home parks, mobile home subdivisions, all commercial uses and billboards |
60 feet | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment, all industrial uses, except those listed below |
500 feet | Auto and metal salvage operations; mineral extraction, storage or processing |
(c) Landscaping or screening provisions: For nonresidential uses abutting R Districts, landscaping and/or screening approved by the Planning Commission shall be provided and maintained in good condition as a precondition to any and every nonresidential use of such abutting property. The Planning Commission shall have original jurisdiction to reduce the minimum yard requirements stated in paragraph (b) provided it finds, after considering the type of landscaping and/or screening required and the nature of the nonresidential use, that the reduction will not be detrimental to the abutting R District or the owners or occupants thereof.
(d) Loading space for non-residential uses shall be provided in the side or rear yard, except that this regulation shall not be applicable to loading space provided totally within a building or structure which has door enclosures facing other than the front property line.
(Ord. 1989-81. Passed 1-2-90; Ord. 2002-3. Passed 4-15-02.)