Linden City Zoning Code
§ 31-19.3
Automotive Repair Stations.
[1979 Code § 22-4.3b; Ord. No. 20-163; Ord. No. 25-7; Ord. No. 25-24; Ord. No. 25-35; Ord. No. 29-47]
Automotive repair stations shall include public garages where the principal use is repair, customizing, painting or reconstruction of automobile, truck and motorcycle bodies. The required area for the erection or expansion of an automotive repair station shall be forty thousand (40,000) square feet and the minimum lot frontage shall be two hundred fifty (250) feet.
a.
No automotive gasoline station shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within two hundred (200) feet along the same side of a street as any school, public playground, church, hospital, public building or institution, except where such property is in another block or on another street which the lot in question does not abut.
b.
No automotive gasoline station shall be permitted where any visible appliance for any purpose (other than gasoline filling pumps or air pumps) is located within twenty (20) feet of any street line or within fifty (50) feet of any residential district. All such appliances, other than gasoline filling pumps or air pumps, shall be within a building. No below ground work areas, commonly referred to as grease pits, shall be permitted. Gasoline pumps shall be permitted within the required front yard space of service stations, but be no closer than fifteen (15) feet to the street line.
c.
There shall be established a landscape buffer of no less than twenty-five (25) feet in width along any residential property line or zone boundary line. The buffer area shall consist of fencing, earth berm and shrubbery of sufficient size, and in no case less than six (6) feet in height to provide a visual screen to adjoining residential properties.
d.
The total site coverage by building and pavement shall be limited to eighty-five (85%) percent of land area of the lot. There shall be a landscaped area of no less than five (5) feet in width, where the site abuts all other nonresidential zones.
e.
The overnight parking of vehicles outside the building shall be limited to three (3) vehicles for each service bay provided within the principal structure of the site. All vehicles on the site shall have valid motor vehicle registration and license plates, provided that parked vehicles shall comply with the Fire Code of the City, and shall not hinder or obstruct access to pumps, bays and other service areas.
f.
All repairs shall be conducted within an enclosed building.
g.
A solid enclosed area shall be provided for the temporary storage of trash, garbage and unusable automotive parts. Except for tires, all trash shall be stored in tight containers. The enclosed area shall be designed so that the trash shall not be seen from a public street or from adjoining properties.
h.
Automotive gasoline stations and automotive repair stations shall be subject to all other requirements of the zone in which they are located.
i.
No light standards or signs shall exceed a height of eighteen (18) feet.
j.
The following sale, maintenance and operations are strictly prohibited:
1.
The sale or rental of cars, trucks, trailers, boats, or any other vehicles.
2.
The storage of cars, trucks, trailers, boats or any other vehicle not being serviced or repaired or classified as junk vehicles.
3.
All other uses including close-out or promotional sales on the site being used by peddlers, vendors or other retail or wholesale merchants for special or seasonal use.