1173.10 LOCATION OF BUILDING SERVICE EQUIPMENT.
   (a)    Any building service equipment, including air-conditioning or refrigeration system which includes an exterior compressor, cooling tower, condensing unit, chiller unit, absorber, or emergency generator, either singularly or in any combination of the above, or any other exterior device which expels heat and/or noise detectable from outside the premises on which such system is located shall be installed and maintained with such exterior unit located to the rear of the dwelling unit.
   
   (b)    The provisions of subsection (a) hereof notwithstanding, building service equipment may be located at the side of the dwelling, provided that the equipment shall be effectively screened on the front and sides by an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than the height of the equipment, or by a fence or wall of similar height conforming to Chapter 1180.
(Ord. 39-2015. Passed 10-5-15.)