<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 62-57. - General standards.</div>
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               Junkyards in existence on the effective date of this chapter shall conform to the
               requirements of this chapter as applicable.
               
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                  (1)
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                  <span class="ital">Pre-existing junkyards.</span> Pre-existing junkyards shall meet the requirements specified in subsection (2)d.,
                  f., h., i. and j.
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                  (2)
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                  <span class="ital">New junkyards</span> The following criteria shall be applicable to new junkyards. All junkyards which
                  are established from and after the effective date of this chapter, shall meet the
                  following standards:
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                  a.
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                  Not be located closer than 500 feet to a pre-existing church, school, day care center,
                  nursing home, skilled health care facility, hospital, public buildings, public recreation
                  facilities or residence (excluding residence of the owner or his agent);
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                  b.
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                  Be situated on a parcel of at least four acres excluding rights-of-way that is undivided
                  by public road right-of-way or public dedication; and
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                  c.
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                  The driveway or entrance roadway may not be located closer than 30 feet from any side
                  property line; and
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                  d.
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                  Have a minimum setback to any required fence and/or vegetative screening from the
                  front, side and rear property lines excluding road right-of-way of at least three
                  feet, and at least 20 feet from the right-of-way of a public state maintained street
                  or highway; unless greater screening is provided by the fence or vegetation being
                  closer to the travel way and the department of transportation allows or recommends
                  the location of the screening; and
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                  e.
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                  All buildings, equipment, operation, (except roads) and junk shall not be situated
                  within 50 feet of an intermittent or continuously flowing stream as designated on
                  the most recent U.S. Geological survey maps. Same shall not be closer than 100 feet
                  to the bank of a river or an intermittent or continuously flowing stream that is located
                  within one half mile of a river; and
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                  f.
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                  All buildings, (except, existing building and equipment and operations therein) equipment,
                  operations (except roads) and junk shall not be situated within ten feet of the front
                  property lines excluding road right-of-ways and at least 30 feet from the main traveled
                  portion of the public state maintained road or
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                  g.
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                  All buildings, equipment, operations (except roads) and junk shall not be situated
                  within ten feet of the front, side and rear property lines; and
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                  h.
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                  If the regulated business is within 500 feet of an occupied structure (excluding a
                  residence occupied by the regulated business owner and/or operator), there shall be
                  a buffer: either (1) an opaque fence a minimum of six feet in height; or (2) installed
                  vegetation that provides a continuous all season opaque screen at least eight feet
                  in height within eight years of planting. The required buffer shall be situated between
                  the junkyard and the occupied structure. The required buffer shall extend a minimum
                  of 500 feet along the boundary between the occupied structure and the junkyard or
                  entirely enclose the junkyard. If not otherwise applicable, buffer requirements shall
                  not apply if a residence or occupied structure is constructed on land purchased after
                  the junkyard is registered or permitted.
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                  i.
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                  Property that is visible from the public state maintained road shall provide an opaque
                  fence of at least six feet in height along the road side of the property and install
                  vegetation that provides a continuous all season opaque screen at least eight feet
                  in height within years eight years of planting or setting said vegetation and shall
                  be not more than five feet from the fence. Vegetation not less than three feet in
                  height at the time of planting shall be planted. If natural vegetation already in
                  place is reduced below the depth or effectiveness specified, the property shall be
                  required to be screened according to the ordinance.
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                  Vegetation that serves as screening shall be planted at intervals evenly spaced and
                  in close proximity to each other so that a continuous, unbroken hedgerow (without
                  gaps or open spaces) will exist to a height of at least eight feet along the length
                  of the fence surrounding the regulated business. The vegetation shall be maintained
                  as a continuous, unbroken hedgerow for the period the property is used as a regulated
                  business. Dead or diseased vegetation shall be replaced at the next appropriate planting
                  time.
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                  j.
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                  All junk and/or inoperable motor vehicles shall be kept within the confines of said
                  fence and vegetative screening at all times unless in motion by transport to or from
                  the site.
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                  k.
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                  On-site traffic areas shall be provided and arranged in a manner to provide adequate
                  areas to prevent backward movement onto the state maintained road.
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               (Amend. of 10-19-04, eff. 1-1-05, Â§ 7(7.1, 7.2)
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