§ 4.40. Standards for automobile, wrecking, junk and salvage yards, and similar uses.

4.40.01. Because of the nature and character of their operations, automobile wrecking and salvage yards, junk yards, and similar uses of land can have a decidedly detrimental effect upon surrounding properties. Salvage and wrecking yards tend to create problems of noise, dust, traffic and health hazards, and may adversely affect property values by their general appearance. The following standards shall be used as a guide in evaluating whether proposed land uses, such as those outlined above, will have properly minimized their objectionable characteristics:

A.

Location. Because of the tendency for salvage yards to promote the breeding of vermin, no such operation shall be permitted closer than three hundred (300) feet from any established residential zone.

B.

Screening. All outdoor storage of salvage and wrecking operations shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed opaque fence or wall, excepting driveway areas, from eight (8) to twelve (12) feet in height. Storage between the road or street and such fence or wall is expressly prohibited. Any fence or wall erected for screening purposes shall be properly painted or otherwise maintained in good condition.

C.

Off-street parking. As regulated in section 3.50, "Off-street parking," of this resolution.

(Ord. No. O-12-9-102, § 1(Exh. A), 10-22-12)