§ 9-560. Service area, loading dock and dumpster screening.

(a)

No service area or loading dock shall be permitted adjacent to any roadway unless enclosed such that all sides appear as a primary facade similar to the principle building, including design, detail, finish[ed] material and landscaping.

(b)

Service areas and dumpsters shall be visually screened from public view by a masonry wall at a minimum of six (6) feet high, measured from finished grade.

(c)

Service areas and dumpster areas shall be directed away from any residential side of the development.

(d)

No part of a dumpster or materials stored within the service area shall extend above the required masonry wall.

(e)

The masonry wall shall be decoratively finished concrete masonry unit, brick, stucco, or other material matching the exterior of the principal building.

(f)

Chain link, painted or unpainted block walls, barbed wire and wood are prohibited as part of a wall.

(g)

Each enclosure shall include a decorative opaque gate equal in height to the masonry wall.

(h)

Each service area, loading dock or dumpster required screening and fencing shall further comply with [section] 24-4 landscape requirements.

(Ord. No. 2003-11, § 9, 8-26-03)

Editor's note

Prior to amendment, Ord. No. 2003-08, § 2, adopted June 3, 2003, repealed § 9-560, in its entirety. Former § 9-560 pertained to exterior lighting fixtures and derived from Ord. No. 2001-14, § 2, adopted June 19, 2001; and Ord. No. 2001-26, § 1.V., adopted Dec. 18, 2001.