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Hyde Park City Zoning Code

§ 108-25.4

Standards.

A. 
Management. The licensee must personally manage or be responsible for the management of the scrap yard business for which the license is granted.
B. 
Maintenance. The licensee must maintain a sufficient number of employees on the premises to ensure the proper and safe conduct of the scrap yard business, to maintain the scrap material in rows or areas with open alleys or fire lanes between to allow passage of emergency vehicles, to contain any fires, and to minimize fire hazards in general.
C. 
Screening. A scrap yard shall be fully enclosed and completely screened from adjoining parcels and all public ways with fencing or a combination of said fencing and evergreen landscaping approved by the Planning Board. A scrap yard shall also provide a setback around the entire perimeter of the required screening that is no less than 50 feet in depth. This setback shall be infilled with a vegetative cover.
D. 
Prohibited uses. No scrap yard may be used as a refuse disposal site as defined in Chapter 66.
E. 
Inspection. The Zoning Administrator, Building Inspector, Town Engineer, Planning Board and any other official of the Town or representative of the Town Board shall be permitted access to the scrap yard at all reasonable times to inspect the same for compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
F. 
Fire extinguishers. A scrap yard shall maintain a minimum of one functioning fire extinguisher, of approved design and capacity, for every 40,000 square feet of area of scrap yard. Each such fire extinguisher shall be mounted in a conspicuous place, clearly marked and available for use at all times. Each such fire extinguisher shall be in addition to any other required fire-extinguishing equipment.