(a) Minimum Yard Requirements. Business and industrial buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer to any lot line of an A-R or R District than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof:
Minimum Yard Abutting Any A-R or R District (in feet) | ||
Side Yard | Rear Yard | Use |
25 | 40 | Access drives for nonresidential uses. |
50 | 100 | Churches, schools and public or semi-public buildings. |
30 | 30 | Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, all commercial uses and billboards. |
40 | 100 | All industrial uses except those listed below. |
150 | 150 | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment, all industrial uses, except those listed below. |
200 | 250 | Auto, and metal salvage operations; mineral extraction, storage or processing. |
(b) Landscaping or Screening Provisions. For nonresidential uses abutting A-R or R Districts, the minimum yards may be reduced to fifty percent (50%) of the requirements stated in subsection (a) hereof, if acceptable landscaping or screening approved by the Zoning Commission is provided. Such screening shall be a masonry or solid fence between four and six 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 fifty feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height. Parking of automobiles for nonresidential uses may be permitted within five feet of the boundaries of A-R and R Districts provided screening is installed as specified herein, subject to approval of a plan therefor by the Zoning Commission.
(Ord. 13-87. Passed 7-27-87.)