(a) Minimum Yard Requirements. Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer to any lot line of a "residential district" as defined in Section 1141.03
than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
Minimum Side or Rear Yard Abutting any "Residential District" (feet) | Use |
25 | Off-street parking spaces and access drives for nonresidential uses. |
50 | Churches, schools and public or semipublic buildings; off-street loading spaces for nonresidential uses. |
60 | Recreational facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, all commercial uses and billboards. |
100 | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment, all industrial uses, except those listed below. |
500 | Mineral extraction or processing. |
(b) Screening and Landscaping. For nonresidential uses abutting residential districts, the minimum yards may be reduced to fifty percent of the requirements stated in subsection (a) hereof if a plot plan meeting the following provisions for acceptable landscaping or screening is filed and is approved and completed construction or planting is certified by the Building Inspector. Off-street parking areas for more than five vehicles shall be effectively screened on each side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential district or institutional premises, by a masonry wall or solid fence. Such wall or fence shall not be less than four feet or more than six feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition without any advertising thereon. The space between such wall or fence and the lot line of the adjoining premises in any residential district shall be at least ten feet wide and landscaped with grass, hardy shrubs or evergreen ground cover and maintained in good condition. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than ten feet in width, and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height, may be substituted.
(Ord. 23-78. Passed 1-8-79.)