Oakdale City Zoning Code
§ 36-24.2
Screening.
Screening refers to a wall, fence, hedge, informal planting, or berm, provided for the purpose of buffering a building or activity from neighboring areas or from the street. When required, screening may be provided by one or more of the following means:
A.
A solid masonry wall meeting the standards of the current adopted edition of the Uniform Building Code.
B.
A solid board fence of approved design with wood posts not less than four (4) inches by four (4) inches and solid board cover not less than one (1) inch in thickness. Masonry piers may be substituted for wood posts.
C.
An opaque evergreen trimmed hedge, the thickness of which shall not be less than forty (40) percent of its required or intended height.
D.
An opaque evergreen informal screen planting, the thickness of which shall not be less than fifty (50) percent of its required or intended height.
E.
An earth berm may be used in combination with any of the above types of screening, but not more than two-thirds (2/3) of the required height of such screening may be provided by the berm.
F.
Height and Location of Screening. Unless otherwise specified screening required by this section shall be not less than six (6) feet in height. In the front yard or street-side yards in R or C Zoning District such screening shall be not less than thirty-six (36) inches in height, unless otherwise specified. All screening shall follow the lot line of the lot to be screened, or the inside edge of the sidewalks, or shall be so arranged within the boundaries of the lot as to substantially hide from adjoining properties the building, facility or activity required to be screened.
G.
Prescribed screening need not be placed along a lot line so long as a building wall, solid fence, or freestanding wall of the required height exists immediately abutting and on the other side of the lot line.