25.180.040 Screening required.
(1) Outdoor storage and trash collection areas shall be screened as follows:
(a) Outdoor storage and trash collection areas located in a commercial or industrial zone with existing or new development shall be screened from any adjacent residential zones and from residential zones across a public street or alley;
(b) Outdoor storage and trash collection areas in C-1 (retail business) zones shall be sight screened from all adjoining properties;
(c) Outdoor storage and trash collection areas located in a commercial or industrial zone with existing or new development and upon a lot adjacent to or visible from the following streets shall be so screened as to obscure vision of such outdoor storage afforded from said streets:
“A” Street
Broadmoor Boulevard
Broadway Street, west of Wehe Avenue
Burden Boulevard
Chapel Hill Boulevard
Columbia Street, between 1st Avenue and 10th Avenue
Court Street
Fifth Avenue, between “A” Street and Court Street
First Avenue, north of “A” Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Fourth Avenue, south of Highway 395
Highway 12
Highway 395
Interstate 182
Lewis Street
Oregon Avenue
Road 68
Sandifur Parkway
Sixth Avenue, between “A” Street and Court Street
Sylvester Street
Tenth Avenue
Third Avenue, north of “A” Street
Thirty-Fourth Avenue
Thirty-Sixth Avenue
Twentieth Avenue
Twenty-Eighth Avenue
West Clark Street
(d) Screening of outdoor storage and trash collection areas shall be accomplished by one or both of the following methods:
(i) Dense evergreen shrubs and/or trees planted to provide a year-round sight-obscuring screen to achieve a minimum height of six feet within two years of planting.
(ii) A solid or otherwise sight-obscuring fence or wall at least six feet in height.
(2) Commercial and industrial side and rear yard landscaped areas adjacent to residential districts must contain a six-foot-high continuous solid screen.
(3) For security purposes, portions of the required screening, not to collectively exceed 20 linear feet along each street or alley adjacent to the lot from which vision is obscured, may be left unobstructed and open to view.
(4) Trash collection areas provided for multiple dwellings and provided in all office, C-1, CR, BP, and C-3 districts shall be located within six-foot-high site-obscuring structure which provides a visual screen from any abutting street. In no case shall such enclosure and trash collection receptacle(s) be permitted within the required front yard setback areas.
(5) Loading and service areas shall not face any residential zone, unless no other location is possible. Loading and service areas adjacent to or across a public street or alley from a residentially zoned district shall be screened with a sight-obscuring structure matching the architecture of the building:
(a) The structure shall be set at the back of any required landscape buffer.
(b) The structure shall not encroach into any required landscaped area.
(c) Any required landscape buffers shall be graded with a 15 percent slope, creating a berm that terminates in the screening wall.
(d) The structure must be 10 feet in height as measured from the final grade of the landscaped berm.
(e) Live vegetation requirements in the landscape buffer shall be increased to the following rates:
(i) Trees shall be provided at a minimum rate of one tree for every 10 linear feet of property line and planted in groupings of three trees, with groupings spaced no more than 30 feet on center.
(ii) Shrubs shall be provided at a minimum rate of one per five linear feet of property line and spaced no more than 10 feet apart on center.
(6) Parking lots that abut a public street shall be buffered with:
(a) Live vegetation consisting of trees, shrubs and ground cover.
(b) All plant material used for parking lot buffers shall be managed and/or maintained to provide clear views between three and eight feet above the ground surface. [Ord. 3763 §10, 2006; Code 1970 § 25.75.040.]